Youth Today
Opinion
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7.1KTransition to Adulthood For Youth Leaving Care Can Be Made Smoother, Safer
Avid cyclists understand if anyone spends enough time riding a bicycle, they will crash at some point. Crashes are more likely for...
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3.6K4-H Has Figured Out Why Some Rural Communities Offer More Opportunity to the Young
According to the math, I should be living in poverty today. Born in South Baltimore General Hospital to first-generation high school graduates...
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4.1KCollege Campuses Must Be Redesigned With Foster Youth, Those With Disabilities in Mind
Owing to increased attention during recent decades, few professionals who are interested in the well-being of youth remain unaware of the challenges...
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1.9KPublic’s Myths About Marijuana Use Need to Be Dispelled
As the United States grapples with how to best address juvenile and youthful offenders, criminal justice reform is focusing on the best...
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2.1KNew York Successfully Preventing Gun Violence By Working With Youth, Their Community
Neighborhood conditions like exposure to violence are unacceptable, and undoubtedly create numerous negative outcomes. However, there are additional factors that consistently show...
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4.0KThe Self-sufficiency of Youth in Care Can Hurt Them in College
Students who have experienced foster care or homelessness are often doing it all: managing complicated and ever-changing family situations, carrying out adult-level...
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4.4KACEs Research Could Improve College Completion Rates for Foster Care Youth
For the past 13 years I have had the privilege of working with hundreds of students who enroll at our university. It...
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3.2KFederal Legislation Would Take Last Brake Off Foster Care Steamroller
Remember all those celebrations when the vastly overhyped Family First Prevention Services Act made it into law? Even some of those who...
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4.2KResistance to Restorative Justice: Understanding, Working Through Staff Skepticism
When you are trying to make the shift to a restorative justice mindset, having even a few teachers, support personnel or administrators...
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3.5KWe Must Change the Narrative About College With Youth Who Have Experienced Foster Care
While many high school seniors receive acceptance letters from colleges across the country this spring, young people who have experienced foster care...
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3.6KMBK Rising! Inspires Young People of Color to Be More Effective Leaders
When I arrived in Oakland, Calif., to attend the Obama Foundation’s MBK Rising! convening in February, I was one of many community...
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2.6KSummer Learning Should Be Nothing Like School: Use Thematic Curriculum
In light of high-stakes testing, children spend much of their in-school time listening to the teacher instruct whole group lessons and then...
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4.1KGun Control Movement Experiencing Growing Pains
With the advent of March For Our Lives and the success of pro-gun control candidates in the 2018 midterm elections, today’s gun...
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6.5KHomeless LGBT Youth: How We Can Fight Their Invisibility, Including Youth of Color
Youth homelessness is a pervasive problem throughout the United States, and its rate has steadily risen over the years. According to the...
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3.7KRight Relationships Crucial to Help Foster Youth Get Into, Through College
Having relationships with resourceful, knowledgeable individuals is important for the college success of young people with foster care histories. Put more simply,...
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1.8KRestorative Justice Can Give Kids the Power of Choice
“I’m too busy to volunteer,” I mumble to myself, and I know I’ve given the stink-eye to those perpetually busy do-gooder women...
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4.0KHomeless Youth Don’t Realize How Much Legal Aid Can Help Them
Civil legal aid services are a necessary tool in preventing and eliminating youth homelessness. Though most young people do not initially identify...
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1.9KLouisville After-school Programs Get Support From Our Network
Philanthropic organizations and local government have been supporting nonprofit organizations that serve young people in my community for decades. We have dozens...
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3.6KWe Students Will Keep Advocating for Background Checks for Gun Sales
In this past year as a student activist for gun safety, I’ve learned that America’s gun problem is a multifaceted issue. Gun...
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3.5KForget Disarming ‘Bad Guys,’ We Must Make All Guns Harder To Get
Six days. That’s how long it took lawmakers in New Zealand to ban military-style assault weapons following an attack in Christchurch that...
