Youth Today
Opinion
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3.7K10 Readiness Abilities Young People Need to Graduate and Ever After
Recently, I have spent a great deal of time in Virginia. My organization, Jobs for the Future, is supporting the state’s education...
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4.3KHow Talented Kids From Low-income Families Become America’s ‘Lost Einsteins’
The Conversation Innovation is widely viewed as the engine of economic growth. To maximize innovation and growth, all of our brightest youth...
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5.5KHigh-quality Out-of-school Time Programs Are Worthy of Investment
Out-of-school time (OST) programs, offered after school and during the summer, are intended to provide youth a safe space to go with...
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3.4KGraham SLAM Coaching Helps Older Youth in Care Launch Successfully
Young people in the child welfare system, most of whom have experienced trauma and frequent loss, have all the same capabilities as...
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2.7KStaff Development Must include Youth Development, Especially in S. Asia
Investing in youth from an early age can be a slow and difficult process, but its benefits can be far-reaching, especially from...
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2.4KHow SRO Programs Can Actually Divert Youth from Pipeline
Like it or not, cops in schools are here to stay. The question is: How do we do it right? An important...
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Dear Restorative Justice: Our Student Isn’t Responding
What do you do when someone is obdurate and has no interest in taking responsibility or admitting any guilt at all?
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2.7KWe Must Encourage Self-belief, Self-determination for Youth to Experience Post-traumatic Growth
The intriguing thing about human nature is that there is no one way to exist. Just recently, I was speaking with a...
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How a Positive Outlook on the Future May Protect Teens from Violence
Youth violence is pervasive and has serious consequences for teens’ health and well-being. Based on a recent Centers for Disease Control and...
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6.2KSTEAM in OST, Learning About Multiple Intelligences Will Empower Kids
What if every child had the knowledge that their talents were valuable? They would grow up confident in who they are. They...
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4.0KHarnessing Youth Peer Lines Will Improve Well-being, Mental Health Crisis
There is a crisis of well-being in this country, and it’s felt most poignantly by our youth. One-third of high school students...
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State Index to Help Guide Youth Homelessness Work
Here’s a question for you: Does a young person from Kansas deserve to be homeless more than a young person from California?...
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2.5KCentral American Kids Come To U.S. Fleeing Record-high Youth Murder Rates
Gang violence and expanding criminal networks have made El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala — an area of Central America known as the...
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3.6KBaltimore Is Tackling the Problem of Youth Violence With Its Ceasefire Movement
Violence perpetrated by youth continues to have far-reaching costs for society: It contributes to injury, community dysfunction, poor physical and mental health,...
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2.9KPost-traumatic Growth: Hope Is a Strategy, Not a Feeling
When a young person experiences trauma, there is no single answer regarding how that experience may impact them in their later years....
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1.5KTo Avoid a Crisis, Nonprofits Should Prepare and Know Their Mission
The notion that a noble mission and a track record of good deeds can shield an organization and its brand from crisis...
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3.7K‘Opioid Excuse’ for Putting Indiana Kids Into Foster Homes Falls Apart Under Scrutiny
For many years Indiana has been an extreme outlier when it comes to taking children from their families. Year after year, Indiana...
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4.7KLeaders Aren’t Born, They’re Built — at Summer Camp
“Wait. What are we going to do?” The six 12- to 14-year-olds looked at each other as the skies opened up during...
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6.3KHow to Teach Kids to Listen to, Respect Each Other
The meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in June was, at minimum, riveting political theater, and potentially...
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Youth With High Stress Need Mentors Carefully Chosen to Match With Them
In recent decades, youth mentoring programs have grown exponentially in popularity and have received increasing support from both private and public sources...
