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4.9KShawn Escoffery is the New Executive Director of the Roy and Patricia Disney Family Foundation
The Roy and Patricia Disney Family Foundation (RPDFF) has named Shawn Escoffery as its new executive director. He joins RPDFF from the...
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2.7KBryan Stevenson’s Message to Youth Workers: Change Narrative for Kids
At the end of April, Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Institute opened a striking museum and a memorial to 4,400 victims of lynching...
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3.8KAs Colleges Polarize Politically, Extremists Are Getting Younger
Colleges are becoming ideological battlegrounds. A national survey of freshman students found the incoming 2016 class was the most politically extreme in...
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1.9KNew Zealand’s Youth Justice Transformation: Lessons for the U.S.
The National Juvenile Justice Network takes a look at the successes of New Zealand's juvenile justice system and discusses how the United...
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2.1KTraining, Connections, Better Benefits: What Young Staffers in Youth Organizations Want
Youth-serving organizations are often staffed by young adults whose outlook and circumstances are different from that of their older colleagues. Sometimes young...
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3.8KCarrie Johnson is the Recipient of the National Juvenile Defender Center’s Inaugural Norman Dorsen Award
The National Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC) has announced that Carrie Johnson will be recognized with the inaugural Norman Dorsen Award in recognition...
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3.0KBrooklyn Students Use ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ to Explore Solutions to Gun Violence
It’s early evening on a warm Tuesday in March, and a handful of teenagers are commanding rapt attention in a corner of...
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3.1KHow to Recruit, Retain Kids for Voluntary Summer Learning
Leaders of summer learning programs who are now reaching out to enroll kids often have to deal with a high no-show rate.
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3.1KMissed Opportunities: LGBTQ Youth Homelessness in America
Researchers at the University of Chicago's Chapin Hall recently produced this report showing the disproportionate struggles LGBTQ youth experience as they are...
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3.5KLGBTQ Youth More Likely to Become Homeless, Latest Chapin Hall Report Finds
Lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual and queer youths have nearly double the risk of winding up homeless as their straight peers — and...
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4.6KDr. Amy Pollack is the Next Director of Maternal, Newborn & Child Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Dr. Amy Pollack, MD, FACOG, FACPM will be the new director of maternal, newborn & child health at the Bill & Melinda...
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5.9KLos Angeles’ Vast Child Welfare System Has a Lot to Teach Rest of Nation
You can only find the entrance to the RightWay Foundation if you’re really looking for it. Hidden deep within the parking structure...
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3.0KYoungest Afterschool Alliance Lobbyists Ever Reassured by Legislators on Annual Funding
What began as a lobbying gala quickly changed into a pep rally as key congressional leaders assured after-school advocates that their cherished...
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1.7KThe State of Preschool 2017
The latest edition of the National Institute for Early Education Research's annual report discusses the latest trends in public preschool quality, availability...
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3.4KPolice in Illinois Are Helping Substance Abusers Get Into Rehab Instead of Arresting Them
Ronald Reagan didn’t start the war on drugs but he did his best to finish it. Law enforcement budgets soared, the jails...
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6.8KLos Angeles School District Fighting Trauma With Wellness Centers
It is the second-largest school district in the nation with more than 640,000 students enrolled. It spans more than 720 square miles,...
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2.5KTanya Curren is a 2018 Inductee of Kennesaw State University’s Bagwell College of Education Hall of Fame
Tanya Curren is a 2018 inductee of Kennesaw State University’s Bagwell College of Education Hall of Fame in recognition of work in...
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3.1KTulsa Groups Worked Together to Provide After-school for Kids During Teacher Strike
The Tulsa Opera, yoga teachers, magicians and first responders helped after-school providers shift into high gear to provide free, full-day activities for...
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2.4KHope That Undecided High School Graduates Could Become Thing of Past Inspires Minnesota Effort
Sparks flew in Russ Tesmer’s auto body repair class as a group of students practiced welding on an old car that had...
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2.6KThis Youth Development Consultant ‘Started in a Coat Closet’
Rebecca Fabiano is president and founder of Fab Youth Philly. OST Hub editor Sara Hill asked her a series of questions about...
