Youth Today
Opinion
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1.8KStudent-centered Learning Reflects Science of Learning for All Youth
My 6-year-old is obsessed with baseball stadiums. All summer his attention was captured by stadium history...
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142.9KAbuse in Foster Care: Research vs. the Child Welfare System’s Alternative Facts
Suppose, hypothetically, you could gather in one room 333 former foster children. Now, suppose you asked how many of them had been...
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1.9KNavigating the Path to a Successful Career: Providing Support for Trauma-Exposed Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
Youth placed in juvenile justice institutions face a fundamental obstacle in their career pathway: They have...
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Being a ‘Good Person’ Won’t Undo Your Implicit Biases
To become a champion of racial equity and social justice takes more effort than one might think. As a culture, we laud...
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1.7KAdding Youth Voices to Youth Workforce Strategies — Let Their Experiences Guide Us
In Baltimore, more than 20 percent of young people ages 16 to 24 are neither in school or working — one of...
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3.3KA Case for Collecting Adverse Childhood Experiences Data
Let me start with a radical statement: I love data. One of my favorite activities in my role as chief strategy officer...
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1.5KAttorney 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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Navigating 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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1.4KRole 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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2.5KSummer 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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2.7KFoster 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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2.6KRecognize 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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5.5KWe 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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1.6KHIV 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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1.8KThat’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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1.6KFor 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...
