Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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2.0KBeing a Kin Caregiver Is More Complicated Than Just Helping Family
What comes to mind when you hear the term foster care? More than likely, it is not the placement of children with...
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10.2KWhat’s Typical About Youth Sexuality, What’s Not, How To Know The Difference
When it comes to child development we have tons of information about how kids’ social, emotional, physical, spiritual and intellectual abilities grow...
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2.8KNew Mexican Indigenous Foster Youth May Have Different Definition of Success
“You just don’t get it! When I emancipate I don’t want to move away and go off to college. I’m going back...
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4.7KReal Origin of Child Welfare Points to Today’s Foster Care Wrongheadedness
Racial and class bias are child welfare’s original sins. So it’s no wonder so many in the field are desperate to whitewash...
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2.2KI Thought I Could Help My Last Mentee — But I Was Wrong
It’s pretty to believe that if one only puts in the time, he can save a wayward child. It doesn’t always work...
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3.7KTeaching Students to Know the Signs Is Key to Preventing Gun Violence
It’s been seven years since my son Daniel was murdered, along with 19 of his classmates and six educators, at Sandy Hook...
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1.7K‘They Put Us on a One-Way Street and Expect Us to Go the Other Way’
I’ve been taking all my pain out on this paper I’m sorry I’m still stuck up in this cell a year later...
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3.1KRTCs At Front of Line to Squeeze Money Out of Family First Act
Remember the Family First Act? That’s the vastly overhyped federal legislation touted as a revolutionary change in how child welfare is financed....
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2.1KHow Hospitals Are Helping to Reduce Gun Violence
As a doctor in an emergency department that only sees children, I have the unfortunate experience of witnessing the impact of violence...
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2.1KCommunication, Cooperation Needed to Remove Firearms From Domestic Abusers
According to the Violence Policy Center’s 2019 report When Men Murder Women, 92% of homicides committed against women were perpetrated by men...
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2.7KCities That Work Closely With Would-be Shooters Have Gun Violence Success Stories
In the midst of the ongoing pain and heartbreak of America’s gun violence epidemic, there are some incredible success stories from around...
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2.6KWe Connected Former Gang Members, Clergy, Community and Police to Fight Violence
In the city of Stockton, Calif., gun violence was already notably on the rise in 2011 because of a series of compounding...
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1.5KOur Jacksonville Partnerships, Social Structure Help Give People Second Chances
When we began our journey to rebuild broken urban communities in our city, Jacksonville, Fla., 20 years ago, little did we know...
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3.8KWhere Are LGBTQ Youth in Gun Violence Conversation?
Jerel’s story is one of many tales of hate, anger, pain and violence that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer youth face...
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1.9KCalifornia Partnerships Helping Reduce Gun Violence, Incarceration
California has comprehensively strengthened its gun safety laws over the past 25 years and is now generally considered to have the strongest...
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2.2KWe Can Reduce Suicides By Gun With Right Policies
Nearly two-thirds of all gun deaths in this country are self-inflicted, according to an average from 2013 to 2017. In other words,...
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2.0KAnnual Conference Nourishes Florida Restorative Justice
Formed in 2013 and established as a 501(c)3 nonprofit in 2014, the Florida Restorative Justice Association (FRJA) is the only entity in...
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3.0KHere’s HOPE for Restorative Practices in the Child Welfare System
When we hear the words restorative justice, there is often a connection with the criminal justice system. But what if we brought...
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6.6KHow I Changed How Young People Saw Community Service
While serving as a juvenile diversion officer, I had the opportunity to see how we use community service in the juvenile justice...
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2.8KSchool Shootings Focus Defies Statistics on Where Children Die From Gunfire
Shooting deaths of children is a serious problem that needs to be addressed in this country, as does the problem of such...
