Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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1.4KAttorney General Sessions Would Return Youth to the Harmful, Ineffective Dark Ages
As I watched Attorney General Jeff Sessions announce the termination of DACA, I was reminded how President Donald...
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Bravehearts Demonstrates That Foster Kids Must Be Listened to
Since 1851, The Children’s Village has been serving and caring for children and families. We have always had the very best intentions,...
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School-to-Prison Pipeline Can Be Dismantled Using Alternative Discipline Strategies
The school-to-prison pipeline refers to the streamlining of at-risk students from schools to incarceration or related correctional-type facilities that results from punitive...
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1.5KNavigating the Path to a Successful Career: New Opportunities for Youth With Disabilities
As any high schooler can tell you, finding paid work experience in today’s economy can be a real challenge. But youth...
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1.3KRole of Law Enforcement in Our Schools Can Be Supportive, Benign
As fall rolls around, parents and young people are preparing for a new school year. So too are teachers, school...
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2.4KSummer Youth Employment Programs Should Consider This News for Next Year
I was 15 when I had my first summer job at a snowball stand outside Baltimore. I learned how to use an...
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2.8KSimple Exercise Can Help Teens With Bad Self-Image
Over the past 14 years, I have spent thousands of hours working with teens in an anti-drug, anti-alcohol program and counseling...
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2.5KFoster Youth Need Mentors and Real-world Experience
Many people don't like teenage fosters because by the time they are a certain age, they become "unruly" and "know it alls."...
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Navigating the Path to a Successful Career: The Vitality of Vital Records
In today’s world, having access to your vital records (birth certificate, Social Security card, state ID card) is, in fact, vital. The...
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2.5KRecognize the Effects of Intimate Partner Violence to Help Children Heal
Olivia can’t sit still long enough to get through a single lesson in her second-grade class. Jayson picks fights...
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5.2KWe Need to Work on Barriers to Educational Success for Youth Who Age Out of Foster Care
Foster care placement has been described as the most tragic experience faced by a child because it introduces instability...
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1.5KHIV Tried Me. It Lost: My First Year In College
“The pediatrician said you need to come to the office immediately,” my mom quivered over the phone. Hearing “immediately” commanded my heart...
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1.7KThat’s Not Fair: Integrating Social Justice-based Learning in Out-of-School Time
Just three words … three simple, yet powerful words when spoken by one of our OST program participants. “That’s not fair!” What...
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1.4KFor Real Change, Training for Youth Professionals Needs to Go Way Beyond ‘One And Done’
I have been developing and facilitating workshops for a wide range of youth worker audiences for nearly two decades on...
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1.5KFederal Budget Proposals Will Harm Children, Youth, the Nation
Our country is divided on many issues, yet there is one issue that is very hard to argue against: the need to...
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2.2KThe Energy to Protect Girls of Color, Take Down Their Barriers Is Here
I had the privilege to bear witness to the vast beauty, power and resiliency of girls and women of color speaking their...
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1.7KPeople Who Work With Kids From Low-income Homes Can Help Them Eat in Summer
hunger, reduced-price meals, food, summer nutrition programs, migrant, low-income, Summer Meals Act, USDA, vacation, Food Research & Action Center
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1.8KTransgender Issue Highlights That We Can’t Tolerate Differences
In the seconds following President Donald Trump’s ban of transgender individuals from the U.S. military, landmines of outrage and...
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6.7KDomestic Violence Survivors Say Mandatory Reporting Laws Made Their Lives Worse
In a previous column about the harm done to battered women and their children by child protective services agencies, I told the...
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3.3KHow to Banish Child Sexual Groomers
Cockroaches, those infamous, hearty and adaptable bugs, can withstand hostile temperatures that few other...
