Youth Today
Opinion
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2.7KOne Family, Five Stories of Anytime, Anywhere Learning
So far on our journey through Jobs for the Future’s student-centered learning framework, you have met...
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2.8KClosing the Communication Gap Between School‑day and After‑school Teams
As a 23-year-old after-school worker in Brooklyn, New York, my “teacher” role was deeply intertwined with the...
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3.9KSleep Deprivation May Hurt Low-income Youth of Color More, With Myriad Effects
Today we know that short sleep durations and sleepless nights have reached epidemic proportions in the United States. The Centers for Disease...
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4.4KMassachusetts Ruling Offers Rare Insight Into How Child Welfare Agency Really Works
In a previous column, I wrote about the federal law requiring states to make “reasonable efforts” to keep families together...
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1.7KShooting for the Moon, Taking My Place Among the Stars
Anyone who truly knows me knows I'm not a very emotional person. They'll know I don't like expressing how I feel or...
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6.5KDefeat Vicarious Trauma With These 4 Crucial Tips for Self-care for CAC Staff
If you regularly work with traumatized children and youth, you will experience vicarious trauma. Full stop.
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2.1KColumn Was Based on Incorrect Pennsylvania Statistics About Child Abuse Investigations
Recently Youth Today published a column (“Pennsylvania County Has Wildly High Rate of Needless Child Abuse Investigations”) by Richard Wexler...
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4.0KTeachers, Be Understanding With Your Students Who May Be Homeless
Sixth grade can be a tough time for pretty much anybody. It doesn’t help when your parents divorce right before the beginning...
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1.7KQueer Youth Must Get Sexual Health Care While Incarcerated
As “bathroom bills,” military transgender bans and elimination of protections for LGBTQ federal employees demonstrate, we are a long way from a...
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2.2K5 Things You Should Know About DACA Youth, the Trump Administration and Congress
A little over a month ago, the Trump administration announced it was rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Since...
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2.6KOwning His Learning and His Future: Taliq Tillman’s Student-Owned Learning Experience
I met Arthur 10 years ago at a principals’ convening. That night, Arthur and I talked about how to make students’ learning...
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3.0KSchool Relationships Helped Me Harness Power of Perseverance to Learn English, Use My Voice
I came to the United States two years ago, absolutely terrified of speaking in English. I was depressed because I had left...
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Pennsylvania County Has Wildly High Rate of Needless Child Abuse Investigations
It is child welfare’s equivalent of stop-and-frisk. It happens over and over again, it’s traumatic, it’s usually baseless...
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2.1KWhat We Tried, What We Learned About Project Based Learning in Denver
For the past year, 13 after-school sites within Denver have been working to implement quality programming...
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3.5KA Thousand Cries For Help That Go Unanswered
My life seemed like something right out of a horror flick — and my mother — well, she could have won an...
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1.8KEx-foster Kids Must Stay Strong to Help Those Still in Care
Let me introduce myself, not as Dr. Dorsett, Ph.D., the researcher with professional wisdom to share, but as...
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How to Redefine Structured After-school Activities So Kids Will Be Engaged
Too often in out-of-school time programs, students are assigned to groups they can never leave, forced to do an activity...
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2.1KWhy Neuroscience, Positive Feedback Are Transformative in Youth Work
I am a long-time advocate for how the power of neuroscience can transform the youth-serving profession. When...
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1.9KYouth-Serving Leaders Really Need the Value Add of Good Coaching
In the early fall, I will complete my 11th year at Jobs for the Future and my 46th year working in the...
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1.5KTV Could Show How Immigrants Not Forgiven Juvenile Mistakes
Although there is a large and vast discussion throughout the United States around immigration, there is a subset of the population that...
