Youth Today
Opinion
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2.2KGun Violence Work Could Use Billions of Dollars in Victim Assistance Funds
Gun violence in the United States has rapidly become a problem that has touched the lives of millions of people. Whether directly...
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10.0KStop Traumatizing Teens in Foster Care With Negative Stigma
As a young person who was in foster care as a teenager, I have come to realize that there are many misconceptions...
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4.8KIs It Time to Rethink Foster Care For LGBTQ Youth?
Youth who enter the foster care system in New Mexico and nationally tend to be between the ages of 1 and 10...
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3.0KNew York Residential Facilities Should Only Be Used Like ERs for Children
With Family First Act implementation underway, editorials and articles proliferate, many articulating nervousness among residential providers. With their revenue models under attack,...
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9.1KMandatory Child Abuse Reporting Belongs in Dustbin, New Research Shows
Last week, a committee of the Idaho Legislature did something that, in the politics of child welfare, is revolutionary. The committee took...
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3.6KTrauma for Youth Is Everywhere … But We Can Heal It in Newark
On a sunny afternoon in 2006, I was driving my four sons to a cookout in Newark, N.J., my hometown. We had...
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2.4KOnly Death Ends the Rescue Fantasy for Clinician — At First
From training to practicing to now teaching, one of the key factors in psychotherapy that continually surfaces is countertransference (sorry self-care), which...
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2.1KBeing 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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10.7KWhat’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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2.9KNew 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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4.9KReal 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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2.3KI 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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3.8KTeaching 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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3.2KRTCs 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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2.2KCommunication, 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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2.8KCities 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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2.7KWe 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...
