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2.6KSummer Youth Programming a Patchwork of Open, Closed, Virtual Due to COVID-19
Earlier this week, Lisa Haverty cleared away board games, dolls and other items from the large central room at Haverty Hollow, the...
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1.6KGetting Support for Summer Learning: How Federal, State, City, and District Policies Affect Summer Learning Programs
A new report from the Wallace Foundation draws on the data and experience of five urban school districts and community partners to...
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2.1KNemours Children’s Health System Appoints James Digan as Enterprise Chief Development Officer
The Nemours Children’s Health System recently announced the appointment of James Digan as its next enterprise chief development officer, effective in July....
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1.6KExpand National Service To Provide Jobs For Youth, Adults, Urban Institute Report Urges
A new report by the Urban Institute describes how federal jobs programs could be ramped up today to address the crisis of...
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1.6KEarly Estimates of the Indirect Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Maternal and Child Mortality
New modelling research published in The Lancet indicates a worrying surge in maternal and child mortality is coming due to the ongoing...
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1.4KLost At Home: The Risks and Challenges for Internally Displaced Children
A new report from UNICEF takes a comprehensive look at the global internal displacement of children due to conflict and violence.
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2.6KHispanic Georgia High School Students Call HoPe Program a ‘Game Changer’ For Them
What started out as an idea scrawled on a fast food napkin 10 years ago has evolved into an after-school program for...
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1.5KThe Nation’s Report Card: Civics, Geography and U.S. History
The Department of Education releases the latest results from the Nation's Report Card showing how eighth-graders' test scores changed from 2014 to...
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3.8KMENTOR Portal Lets Youth Organizations Go Virtual, Shift Mentoring Online
Social distancing has disrupted social services of all kinds, but nowhere are the changes felt more strongly than in youth organizations that...
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2.1KCoronavirus Influencing College Enrollment in Uncertain Times
Frejoel Munoz couldn’t stop smiling as he read the email. “It was such a great moment to know that I got into...
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1.5KHow to Help Struggling Kids During Coronavirus
This time of year usually marks year-end celebrations and summer preparations for youth. But with regular traditions like prom and graduation on...
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1.7KAlabama Anti-gun Violence Activists Expect Uptick In Shootings Due to COVID-19 Stress
As coronavirus continues to disrupt daily life, anti-gun violence advocates worry the communities hit hardest will see spikes in shootings.
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1.9KCoronavirus Produces School Closures, Uncertain Futures, Extra Stress for Alabama Teens
“You could say I’m an expert at being stuck at home,” said Jacob Frazier, a 17-year-old high school senior who is abiding...
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2.0KIsolated in a Harlem Youth Shelter: One Youth’s Tale of COVID-19
First, it was just a headache. A migraine burrowing into his forehead, one that heated and cooled his body, made the room...
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2.1KThe COVID-19 Pandemic Is Straining Families’ Abilities to Afford Basic Needs
The Urban Institute uses data from its Health Reform Monitoring Survey conducted between March 25 and April 10 to evaluate the effects...
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3.5KNorth Carolina’s Raise the Age Law Highlights How Schools Handle Discipline
“We don’t know how many students are casualties of a racist system, in which they are punished for being in their bodies,...
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3.2KNew York Homeless Youth Feel Lonely, Stuck, Isolated
First he lost his job as a shift manager at McDonald’s. Then the movie theater, the bowling alley, all the places he...
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1.7KStrategies and Challenges in Feeding Out-of-School Students
Urban Institute researchers examine and assess the challenges both school districts and families face when ensuring proper food and nutrition access for...
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2.3KAmid Huge Gun Sales, Coronavirus Already Linked to Spike in Florida Violence, Suicide
Theirs was supposed to be the kind of family people dream of having; a father, mother, son and daughter living in domestic...
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2.1KNonprofits Should Do Scenario Planning, Talk to Funders, Advisors Say
Emergency funds for nonprofits and small businesses could flow again as congressional leaders negotiate billions more for the Paycheck Protection Program. An...
