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1.9KConferences Highlight Challenges, Solutions: Threat to After-school Funding, High Need Among Youth
As 2,000 after-school workers gathered in Dallas earlier this week for the annual National AfterSchool Association convention, they immediately understood the convention...
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1.7KA Civil Rights Movement Grows in Brooklyn
Two meetings last week, one in a ragged community center across the street from a waterfront Brooklyn housing project, the other in...
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3.0KNew Study Reveals Higher Rates of Homelessness, Food Insecurity for College Students
A comprehensive survey of 33,000 students in 24 states released last week provides a bleak look at life for community college students...
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3.2KSupporting Those Who Support Homeless Youth
He brought candy to that first meeting at the Covenant House homeless shelter in Manhattan a few days after Halloween — a...
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1.9KTrump Proposal Zeros Out 21st Century Program; Advocates See Devastation for Needy Families
A longstanding program designed to keep America’s most impoverished children in a safe, learning environment during after-school hours would be eliminated entirely...
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3.3KReaching LGBT Youth With Support, Mentoring and a Message That ‘It Gets Better’
As a high school student, Brian Wenke was harassed and bullied before he even realized he was gay.
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5.0KWhen Schools and Nonprofits Collaborate with Faith-based Organizations
Amachi is a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that recruits volunteers from faith-based organizations to mentor the children of incarcerated parents. However, it has a...
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1.5KAdvocates Pool Initiatives, Information, Legislation to Help Homeless Youth
They came from around the country to hear how other professionals are helping homeless youth climb toward stability, to share their own...
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Federal Policy Solutions to Prevent and End Youth and Young Adult Homelessness
The National Network for Youth outlines the severity of the youth homelessness epidemic across the country and shows how current federal policy...
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5.0KWhat’s Next for Gay and Transgender Students?
Advocates question how the new White House will impact recent gains.
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3.7KCommunity-based Organization Battles Chronic Absenteeism in Queens
It was 40 degrees and drizzling, and it would not be easy to get the kids to school today.
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1.3KSetback for Transgender Students in Rights Lawsuit
The Supreme Court had declined to hear the first major case in U.S. history on whether transgender people are protected from sex...
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5.3KProviding Support for Young Black Men in College
Young African-American men are far less likely to graduate from college than other segments of the population. A little more than one-third...
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Children Will Continue to Flee Danger, Expert Says
In all her years working with Unaccompanied Alien Children, one interaction in particular stands out to Michelle Brané, the director of migrant...
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1.6KTrump Administration Could Target Central American Teens
After 18 days on a bus to the Mexican city of Reynosa, five days walking through the desert to Texas and two...
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2.2KAt Big Thought, Gigi Antoni Has Taken a Big-Picture Approach to Out-of-school Learning
“It’s in out-of-school time that kids get to pursue their interests,” says Gigi Antoni, who moves to the The Wallace Foundation in...
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2.4KFederal Spending on Child Poverty Meager, But Root Causes Must Be Found: Experts
The war on poverty and an array of social welfare measures that followed over the last half-century have helped improve the lives...
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1.6KHomelessness Leads to Justice System and Vice Versa, New Report Details
You’re 16, homeless and sleeping on a park bench when police grab you at 3 in the morning. Vagrancy, trespassing or a...
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A Qualitative Study of Youth and the Juvenile Justice System: A 100 Percent Pittsburgh Pilot Project
This new report from the Pittsburgh Foundation uses data gathered from a comprehensive survey of youth in Allegheny County to paint a...
