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3.4KThrough Making Videos, Boston Group Home Youth See Their Lives More Clearly
When Tyquan Ruffen looks back at his life he sees a patchwork of places he’s lived. Italian Home, Knights Children Center, Harrington...
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3.8KOccupational Therapy on Horse Offers Physical, Emotional Benefits, Parent Says
Eighteen-year-old Christopher Frierson is sitting tall and riding high. In one weekend in spring 2019, he competed in an English-saddle horse show,...
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3.6KMentoring for Preventing and Reducing Substance Use and Associated Risks Among Youth
The National Mentoring Resource Center recently published this comprehensive review of the most effective mentoring practices for the prevention and reduction of...
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3.9KYouth Villages Names Jessica Foster Chief Strategy Officer
Youth Villages recently named Jessica Foster as its new chief strategy officer. The appointment is a promotion from within, as Foster has...
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1.9KMeet ‘Firefighter’ in Middle of New York Hospital’s War Against Gun Violence
On one Thursday in March, James Dobbins was towering over a group of teen boys as they all headed to a community...
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2.0KSexual Victimization Reported By Youth in Juvenile Facilities, 2018
The Bureau of Justice statistics releases the most current figures on youth-reported instances of sexual victimization during incarceration at juvenile detention facilities...
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2.0KWhen Student Loans Linger: Characteristics of Borrowers Who Hold Student Loans over Multiple Decades
A new brief from the Urban Institute discusses student loan borrowers who hold the debt for multiple decades into adulthood, affecting their...
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2.9KProvider In Las Cruces, NM, Left Stretched Thin After 2013 Ruling
Jolene Martinez of Las Cruces couldn’t be more thrilled to be an adoptive parent to a second foster child, who she adopted...
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5.2KNew Mexicans See Foster Care Challenges, But Are Encouraged by Changes
Jordan, a teenaged foster youth, has lost count of all the places she’s lived in the state, including the streets of New...
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4.4KLack of Affordable Housing, Enough Foster Families Hurt Taos, NM, Area
It's November 2019, and the hysteria from the emergency meeting in 2013 is still palpable for Yasmin Haque. After then-New Mexico Gov....
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2.7KIn Santa Fe, NM, ‘We’re Not Going to Play the Blame Game’
Annie Rasquin believes in difficult conversations with her staff and volunteers, especially when the complex needs of a foster youth require immediate...
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2.8KCarlsbad, NM, Oil Windfall Makes It Harder to Keep Caseworkers
People in southeast New Mexico find it hard to live with the oil boom, but folks across the state can’t live without...
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1.9KMinneapolis Youth Gather Data, Address Community Issues Affecting Them
At a community meeting in Minneapolis in May, students from Juxtaposition Arts, a Minneapolis youth-oriented art center, showed a game they had...
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1.9KYoung People Play Vital Role in Funding Programs That Impact Them at Youthprise
Earlier this year, Irina Barrera began making plans to represent her organization, Youthprise, at a national conference on expanded learning. Youthprise is...
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6.4KRing the Alarm: The Crisis of Black Youth Suicide in America
The Congressional Black Caucus releases a troubling report quantifying and discussing the recent sharp rise in suicide rates among black youth, a...
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4.1KYear of Coverage On How Communities Target Gun Violence
The Center for Sustainable Journalism is covering how communities target gun violence through 2020. This video summarizes some of our coverage from...
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3.2KWhat After-school Field Needs to Know About Best Ways of Teaching Kids to Read
Nineteen years ago, a panel of experts spent two years assessing the major research on teaching kids to read. Once and for...
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1.8KTool Lets You Assess How Well Your OST Program Supports Reading
Is your out-of-school time program in a good position to offer reading support to young kids? How can you ensure that your...
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2.3KMoonshot Moment: Entire Florida Community Addresses Problem of Kids’ Reading Skill
More than a decade ago, Barbara Hammond and Liz Woody Remington were desperate. The two mothers in Vero Beach, Fla., didn’t know...
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6.8KGuide Makes Measuring Data Easier For After-school Systems
Figuring out what to measure and how to measure it is the 21st century question. Technology allows for vast data gathering and...
