Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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4.1KPaths to Success for Young Parents in Foster Care
Research has shown that adolescent parenthood is far more common among young people in foster care than among their peers in the...
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1.2KInterns to Outcomes: The Post-secondary Experience in the Juvenile Justice Environment, Part 3
As previously covered, clear and timely communication, flexibility, plus a collaborative mindset are the essential elements of a vibrant juvenile justice or...
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6.5KMichigan Can Do Better Helping Foster Youth When They Age Out
Michigan is considered to have one of the better foster care systems in the country. One of its major differences is when...
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2.2KRestorative Justice Helps Us Take Kids Where They Want to Go
Humans of Restorative Justice (HORJ) stories highlight the incredible individuals working to build and restore strong relationships in their communities. They are...
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12.0KPittsburgh Misuses Big Data to Target Poor Children for Abuse Investigations
One massive leak of middle-class Americans’ data seems to have the whole world in an uproar. A firm known as Cambridge Analytica...
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5.5KHow to Create a Culture of Play and Why You Should
Google recently explored its own practices to identify key indicators for employee engagement and effectiveness. Google’s Project Aristotle found that successful teams...
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5.3KColleges, Universities Should Be Pressured to Help Students in Foster Care
Growing up in Flint, Michigan and being a part of the foster care system from age 13 until I aged out at...
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4.4KMentoring Foster Youth in Rural America Is Harder But Badly Needed
Though mentoring has existed in my community of Dickinson, North Dakota for the past 23 years, youth in foster care, although most...
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8.7KPoor Kids End Up in Foster Care Because Parents Don’t Get Margin of Error Rich Do
Is this child neglect? A couple takes their two children, ages 14 and 11, with them on an old “waterlogged” boat, five...
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3.9KHow Closing My Competency-based School Led to Learning What Works
I closed the doors to Missouri’s first competency-based high school after just three years. Our school, based in St. Louis and on...
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3.4KWe Child Welfare Professionals Must Expand Our Objectives to Education
What is our job as child welfare professionals? What should our priorities be? How should we measure success? The answers to these...
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2.0KGood Internship Needs Frequent Communication, Sturdy Structure
Timely, accurate and clear communication is the lifeblood of a quality, functional and durable internship. However, there is more to this than...
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4.5KWhat Los Angeles Child Welfare Leader Bobby Cagle Could Learn from Mick Jagger
One of the problems with the whole child welfare debate is that we all say pretty much the same things — but...
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3.5KBlack Girls Pay the Price When Police Enter Schools
Sen. Marco Rubio sent a letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and Attorney General Jeff Sessions this week wrongly blaming the...
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24.9KYoung Sex Offenders Shouldn’t Have to Register; It’s Ineffective and Hurts Everyone Around Them
Sex offender registration policies were initially developed for adults with sexual offenses, but have recently been extended to include youth with sexual...
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3.3K#MeToo, Women’s Marches, Democrats in 2018: 2 Youth Mentors Talking
Recently, the two sat down for a conversation as two mentors in the field to assess some of the major developments in...
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19.8KHow We Found More Black Foster Parents and Confronted the Racial Disparity in Foster Care
I’ve worked in child welfare for over eight years and, from day one, I’ve been struck by the high numbers of black...
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3.5KRevival of Indigenous Justice in Canada, U.S., Should Be Compass for Restorative Justice
Most people would agree that the criminal justice system needs to change in some way. The restorative justice (RJ) movement offers an...
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2.1KSchool Eating Contest Leaves Bad Taste in Teachers’ Mouths
At the end of a long week of classes, a 10th-grade girl from student government made an announcement in assembly over the...
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3.2KWe Need to Understand How to Provide Trauma-informed Care
The philosophy of trauma-informed care is becoming more and more embedded in the philosophies and practices of child-serving agencies.
