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2.3KTrailers Take Makerspace After-school Activities to Nebraska Kids
In the largely rural state of Nebraska, what does it look like to expand opportunity for kids? It may look like a...
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2.3KThe Tragedy of Wasted Funds and Broken Dreams: An Economic Analysis of Childhood Exposure to Crime and Violence
This new report from the University of Pennsylvania is the first of its kind to estimate the economic costs of childhood crime...
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3.9KMake Sports Affordable For More Kids, RAND Report Urges Community Organizations
Does the cost of sports keep low-income kids from playing? Yes, said a recent RAND report. It recommended that community-based organizations cover...
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6.4KFor Youth In Foster Care in New York City, Anxieties Over College, Aging Out Remain
They had it all planned out. Christina Young and her roommate would share an Uber together and make sure they got to...
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2.2KState-funded Teen REACH Makes Difference For Illinois Kids, Advocates Say
Deena Mosbarger remembers the 11-year-old who had trouble managing his anger in her after-school program in Flora, Ill.
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1.9KWhen Is a School Segregated? Making Sense of Segregation 65 Years after Brown v. Board of Education
A new research report from the Urban Institute develops a more effective metric for determining the extent of school segregation within the...
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2.2KVirginia Knox Named President of MDRC
Virginia Knox will be the new president of MDRC after 15 years leading its Families and Children Policy Area. She succeeds Gordon...
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3.4KFederal Government Must Address Youth Homelessness As Public Health Problem: Chapin Hall
To end youth homelessness, the federal government must go beyond a crisis response to the problem and take a comprehensive approach that...
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1.9KSlideshow Focuses on Seattle Youth Experiencing Homelessness
For the last year, Youth Today has been writing about youth experiencing homelessness, particularly in the Seattle area. This collection in Bokeh...
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2.6KTacoma Trying Individualized Way to End Youth Homelessness
Malik Banks had been living out of his car in the Tacoma, Wash., area for about two months when the 23-year-old decided...
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2.1KSeattle Counselor Sticks With Clients For Years In ‘Long Game’
His 6-foot-4 frame folded into the small wooden sailboat, Keaton Hohl waved and shouted “Ahoy!” to each passing boat on Lake Union.
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1.5KChildren Living in High-Poverty, Low-Opportunity Neighborhoods
The Annie E. Casey Foundation recently released this latest data snapshot outlining the prevalence and demographics of children living in high poverty....
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3.2KPercentage of Kids in Poor Areas Higher in 10 States, Puerto Rico, Casey Report Says
Despite the country’s longest-ever period of economic growth, the share of U.S. children living in high-poverty neighborhoods is on the rise in...
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1.4KThe Opportunity Agenda Appoints New President, Ellen Buchman
A “social justice visionary” who says she has the fight for equality coursing through her veins is the new president of The...
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1.4KConnecting to Opportunity: Lessons on Adapting Interventions for Young People Experiencing Homelessness or Systems Involvement
MDRC evaluates the efficacy and sustainability of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's LEAP initiative, which provides education and employment pathways for youth...
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2.5KWaiting Period Law for Firearms Would Aim to Save Lives of Suicidal Alabamians
This story is part of a series on public health and firearms. The first examined groups working to reduce homicide in Birmingham....
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1.6KLife-saving Advice for Suicide Prevention From Public Health Experts
When a person commits suicide, family members are often left wondering how they could have saved their loved one’s life.
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2.5KJuvenile Arrests, 2017
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) discusses the latest data and trends involving arrests of juveniles across the country....
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2.5KHomeless and Queer New Yorkers: Through the Lens
The New York City bureau for the Center for Sustainable Journalism has extensively reported on queer homeless youth.
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2.5KTrans Woman Who Died at Rikers Created Chain Reaction of Kindness, Friends Say
The first time Christina Vengerovsky met Layleen Cubilette-Polanco was on Christopher Street in the summer of 2010. Her friends had been talking...
