As spring slides toward summer, kids at the Sitar Arts Center in Washington, D.C, are beginning to audition for roles in the...
This new report from the Justice Policy Institute highlights the growing movement known as "Raise the Age" which seeks to convince state...
And then there was one. New York State legislators voted Sunday night to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 18, capping...
The website Juvie Talk is a compilation of verbatim stories of more than 100 young people in the juvenile justice system. The...
Three weeks after Thanksgiving, Rosana Borges sat at her dining room table and picked at the last piece of turkey in a...
Alicia Barraza started her testimony with statistics. Sixteen- and 17-year-olds who serve time in New York’s adult facilities are twice as likely...
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The Center for Promise at America's Promise Alliance outlines the effects of adverse life experiences on the development and mental health of...
For even more photos with our story about the New York organization that works with children at risk of chronic absenteeism, see...
Educators and youth workers participated in the National Youth-At-Risk Conference's annual poverty simulation in Savannah, Georgia, in March 2017.
This new report from Measure of America presents findings gathered from the latest data about youth across the country who are neither...
David Johnson was 16 years old when he faced his first criminal charge in a North Carolina court that considered him an...
In New Britain, Connecticut, elementary school students can get a passport at the beginning of summer, listing places in the community they...
The MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience produced this brief highlighting the latest findings in research on adolescent brain development...
Life prospects appeared bleak for 17-year-old Terrance Williams on a quiet Saturday in the spring of 2013.
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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Two meetings last week, one in a ragged community center across the street from a waterfront Brooklyn housing project, the other in...
A comprehensive survey of 33,000 students in 24 states released last week provides a bleak look at life for community college students...
He brought candy to that first meeting at the Covenant House homeless shelter in Manhattan a few days after Halloween — a...