Youth Today reporter Stell Simonton spoke with Aaron Philip Dworkin, CEO of the National Summer Learning Association, on the closing day of...
Homelessness and a lack of education for unaccompanied youth are intertwined. Young adults who do not finish high school or get a...
Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute releases a new state-by-state report showing significant increases in the number of children without health insurance over...
Inside the red doors of a former church in Westbrook, Maine, more than 40 kids are eating dinner. It’s Friday evening and...
The Marguerite Casey Foundation recently announced Carmen Rojas, Ph.D. as its next president and CEO beginning in 2020. She succeeds founding president...
Each weekday afternoon, school buses in Waco, Texas, rumble down streets, pull up at designated stops and drop kids home. Some students,...
When the Annie E. Casey Foundation launched the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) in the tough-on-crime era of the early 1990s, politicians...
Issues raised by the school-to-prison pipeline in North Carolina can’t be pinpointed to just one factor. But, said Peggy Nicholson of the...
The CDC's National Center for Health Statistics releases the latest figures on suicide and homicide death rates among U.S. youth; highlighting the...
William S. White, who died this month, is remembered by after-school advocates as the philanthropist who punched up a little after-school program...
Researchers from Georgia State University surveyed homeless youth around Atlanta to create a comprehensive overview of their experiences, particularly in regard to...
Understanding how homeless youth are trafficked is important information for the organizations offering them services.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation reports findings from the most recent data on childhood obesity rates across the country. The report ranks...
Adopting standards for healthy snacks may not be enough to enough to improve snack quality in after-school programs, according to a study...
In the largely rural state of Nebraska, what does it look like to expand opportunity for kids? It may look like a...
This new report from the University of Pennsylvania is the first of its kind to estimate the economic costs of childhood crime...
Does the cost of sports keep low-income kids from playing? Yes, said a recent RAND report. It recommended that community-based organizations cover...
They had it all planned out. Christina Young and her roommate would share an Uber together and make sure they got to...
Deena Mosbarger remembers the 11-year-old who had trouble managing his anger in her after-school program in Flora, Ill.
A new research report from the Urban Institute develops a more effective metric for determining the extent of school segregation within the...