Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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2.9KNew Mexico Shouldn’t Double Down On Failed System of Child Abuse Reporting
Even as we finally come to grips with the racial bias that permeates so many aspects of American life, some people in...
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2.1KTime to Invest In Our Communities, Proven Solutions to Gun Violence
Three months ago, the entire nation was rocked by the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. In the weeks since his...
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1.9KHow Has COVID-19 Affected Schooling of Young People With Disabilities?
As schools begin to open back up, many young people and their families are facing the unexpected. Understandably, they have questions about...
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2.5KYouth Homelessness Is a Symptom, Not a Cause
SERIES: PART 5 OF 7 Part 1: How Do We Make Youth Homelessness Effort Bipartisan? Part 2: America’s Biases Marginalize Youth, Drive Them to...
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1.9KHow to Work With Youth As Partners in Evaluation Research
Let’s start with what we know to be true: Youth have expertise, wisdom and unique skill sets. Professional researchers and evaluators can...
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2.7KHelp Parents, Guardians Survive and Thrive By Tapping Into Support Networks
We are moving through historic times as our families and communities are impacted by two pandemics: COVID-19 and systemic racism. In order...
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3.0KHow Has COVID-19 Affected Employment of Youth With Disabilities?
As the country battles another recession brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, unemployment numbers soar. With more than 30 million people not...
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2.0KSo, How Does This Collective Decision-making Work?
We described in the previous column how the approach is four-tiered, beginning with collaboration. Collaboration is a term that has been bantered...
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6.3KIn Peer-on-peer Child Sexual Abuse, States Differ on Who’s a Peer
The phrase “peer on peer child sexual abuse” is well known. It implies an exploitative sexual relationship of one minor by another....
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3.0KCollaborating With Youth in OST Setting Is Best for Goals
In the past few months, rapid shifts to online and remote learning have taken place across schools and out-of-school programs in response...
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2.3KWhat Does 30th Anniversary Of ADA Mean to Youth With Disabilities?
Sunday marks the 30-year anniversary of the passing of the Americans With Disabilities Act. The ADA is a piece of civil rights...
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3.2KI Can Offer Hope to Other Young Survivors of Sexual Abuse
While COVID-19 has consumed almost every part of the lives of most Americans for more than two months, the uncertainties, anxieties and...
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2.0KCollective Decision-making Can Neutralize Politics of Fear
Judge Teske first used collective decision-making beginning in 2003 to reform his local juvenile justice system, which has netted an 80% decline...
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2.2KInnovative Programming Can Still Combat Summer Learning Slide During COVID-19
For decades, summer learning loss, also known as summer slide, has been a significant issue, particularly for low-income students. A new study by...
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2.1KHow Are Youth With Disabilities Getting Exercise In Pandemic?
With gyms and sports centers in many places being closed off to the public, it made me wonder how young people in...
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6.5KFoster Youth Need More Than Their Basic Needs Met — Especially During a Crisis
Youth in foster care experience significant barriers as it relates to their physical, mental and emotional well-being. The impact of these barriers...
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3.5KAmerica’s Biases Marginalize Youth, Drive Them to Homelessness
Social psychology has found that someone may decide someone else's behavior has one of two causes: dispositional or situational. Dispositional attribution assigns...
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1.1KMore Telehealth Could Be Among Policy, Practice Implications of COVID-19 Pandemic
In a remarkably short period of time, the COVID-19 pandemic has required us to change almost everything about how we live and...
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2.2KHow Do We Make Youth Homelessness Effort Bipartisan?
4.2 million. That’s the number of homeless youths in America every year. This opinion piece is about the 4.2 million, how and why...
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3.8KHow Is Pandemic Affecting Mental Health of Youth With Disabilities?
The spike in new COVID-19 cases here in the U.S. has some people on edge. The truth is that the majority of...
