Youth Today
Opinion
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3.7KHigher Education for Youth in Care Must Be A Higher Priority for Child Welfare
In an op-ed of mine Youth Today published in March, I challenged the child welfare community to think more expansively about our...
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3.7KHousing Help Can Be a Child Welfare Intervention
Imagine being a parent who, despite your best efforts, cannot afford safe and adequate housing. Imagine that because of low earning power,...
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3.3KOST Training, Professional Development Plans Crucial to Quality
The office always seems to have a louder buzz this time of year. A steady stream of potential candidates pour in and...
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2.4KYou Must Hold Up the Mirror to Truly Work on Equity in Your Organization
Do you recall the last diversity training you attended? If it was a good one, maybe you do because you gained some...
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20.4KCAPTA Law Codifies Everything Wrong With How We ‘Fight’ Child Abuse
Elizabeth Eden chose the wrong morning to eat a poppy seed bagel for breakfast. Then she chose the wrong hospital to give...
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3.0KProgram Quality Goes to Summer Camp, Where It Belongs
Think about the last time you had a quality customer service experience — was it at a store? On vacation? Over the...
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2.1KTeens’ Brains May Be Molded by Living With Neighborhood Violence
Flinching as a gunshot whizzes past your window. Covering your ears when a police car races down your street, sirens blaring. Walking...
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3.8KMentors, Here’s What Kids Around the World Need Most
As a private school, most of the students came from wealthier families. During my time there, I also helped feed and plan...
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2.7KCoach for Confidence, not Compliance
As I emerge from the train station in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District, my senses are overwhelmed with the sights,...
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3.7KI’m a Teen: How Can I Tell Who’s Joking, Who’s Crying for Help
The nation’s conversation about mental illness and school shootings has changed the way I listen to my classmates.
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4.0KNetwork Model of Emotional Peer Support Groups Eases Stress for Foster Parents, Staff
Here at Graham Windham, a youth development and family organization located in New York City, we rely heavily on data and ways...
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1.5KCulture of Trust Is Key for School Safety
When we first visited the school that is the focus of our forthcoming book, “Navigating Conflict: How Youth Handle Trouble in a...
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4.0K10 Ways for Youth Workers to Fight the Rise of Narcissism
Narcissism was a term unfamiliar to many as recently as a decade ago. Yet within the past 10 years it has risen...
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2.5KDemonizing the Free Press Puts President on Wrong Side of History
Criticism is nothing new to people in the news business. If you have spent more than a day gathering it, writing it,...
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1.8KMultilevel Collaboration Will Give You Unique Advantages
Those of us who work to increase opportunities for children and families regularly seek new and different methods that will let us...
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1.6KAmp Up Your Attitude to Fundraise From Individual Givers for Your Nonprofit
People often talk about the art and science of fundraising. And they’re right. Raising money, especially gifts from individuals, takes a strategic...
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3.7KEquity Must Be Center Stage in ‘New’ Career & Technical Education
We need to understand the role of career and technical education (CTE) programs in creating transformative solutions around education, equity and poverty...
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53.7KWhy It’s So Easy to Troll Someone With Anonymous Child Abuse Report
When she first learned that journalist and Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King and his family were being harassed by a troll...
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3.9KYouth Need Cash, Not Just Opportunities, to Succeed
In education, we push “college for all” while wearing university swag and celebrating acceptance letters. We spend more time talking about who...
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2.3KWhy OST Workers Must Disrupt Unhelpful Social Narratives
We used to warn children of “stranger danger” to avoid assault, kidnappings and other horrendous acts. However, we failed them with this...
