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See How the #NoExcusesBus Works
For even more photos with our story about the New York organization that works with children at risk of chronic absenteeism, see...
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1.5KPoverty Simulation Pushes Educators, Youth Workers to Reflect, Relate
Educators and youth workers participated in the National Youth-At-Risk Conference's annual poverty simulation in Savannah, Georgia, in March 2017.
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Promising Gains, Persistent Gaps: Youth Disconnection in America
This new report from Measure of America presents findings gathered from the latest data about youth across the country who are neither...
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2.7KN.C. Raise the Age Supporters Hope for Change in Law
David Johnson was 16 years old when he faced his first criminal charge in a North Carolina court that considered him an...
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3.0KInnovative Summer Learning Programs Bubble up, Draw Attention at the State Level
In New Britain, Connecticut, elementary school students can get a passport at the beginning of summer, listing places in the community they...
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How Should Justice Policy Treat Young Offenders?
The MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience produced this brief highlighting the latest findings in research on adolescent brain development...
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1.2KOrganizations That Provide Creative Escape From Prison Start to Connect
Life prospects appeared bleak for 17-year-old Terrance Williams on a quiet Saturday in the spring of 2013.
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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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5.1KWhen 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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1.4KSetback 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...
