Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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12.5KTwo Interconnecting Puzzle Pieces: Trauma-Informed Approach and Restorative Justice
The trauma-informed approach focuses on the same principle, and brings the neuroscience to understand the behaviors that restorative justice is looking to...
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Is Your Standard of Protection What It Should Be?
Abuse issues and safety remain a chief concern for youth service organizations. While youth service organizations have stepped up training and staff...
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1.1KProgram Growth: Two Steps Forward, No Steps Back
We all want to see numeric growth in our programs. Having more youth means our program can impact more lives, offer more...
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1.2KOpportunity, Not Capacity: Partnering So Vulnerable Kids Cut Through the Clutter and Succeed
This year, more than 90 percent of children attended public school in the United States. That staggering percentage represents 50 million elementary...
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1.6KWhy Juvenile Justice Reform Needs Child Welfare at the Table
While immersed in child protection work, it never occurred to me that preventing delinquency was also a part of my job. When...
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Conference Showed How Field Is Building on Progress in Youth-Serving Field
Earlier this year, we urged the Trump administration to continue federal investments in juvenile justice. In the last three decades, the field...
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2.2KSkill-building Is Only One Piece of the Puzzle in Tech-Training Program NPower
Stephon Stephens didn’t think he would get in. At 21, he was used to applying to jobs and programs that wouldn’t look...
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A Tale of Two Juries on Foster Father Accused of Sex Abuse
Seven days of deadlocked jury deliberations in the sex abuse trial of a single foster father are over. Despite allegations that he...
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3.5KPick A Message: Kill Big Bird Or Send Kids To College
We were going to use this space to rant against those elected officials who would vote to kill off Big Bird by...
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2.4KKeep the Light of a College Education Burning Bright for New York’s Foster Youth
Growing up in New York state’s foster care system in the 1980s, I was well aware of the plight of those who...
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NY Bureau Chief Sues State Court Officers for False Arrest
Journalist Daryl M. Khan is suing New York state court officers on charges of false arrest and malicious prosecution.
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2.2KBringing Transgender Justice into Services-based Organizations
Growing up transgender is never easy. Trans youth face high rates of violence, with more than three-quarters of trans students feeling unsafe...
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6.5KBattling the Ninth Grade Bulge
Researchers call it the “ninth grade bulge,” and it has nothing to do with weight gain among teenagers. Rather, the term refers...
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2.3KSafe Spaces: Supportive Environments Are Crucial for Transgender Youth
The cover of the January 2017 issue of National Geographic was a first for the historic magazine, though at first glance it...
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1.4KSpeak out; our democracy demands it
In the last issue of Youth Today, we took a stand against the haters who would divide us as one nation under...
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1.5KRenewing CHIP Is Bipartisan No-brainer
Though none of us in the child health advocacy world asked for a restructuring of Medicaid funding, we are asking for continued...
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1.2KPresident Trump Targets Immigrants, Youth of Color in First 100 Days
In his first 100 days, President Trump followed through on several disturbing campaign promises — sparking chaos and fear and setting the...
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1.8KLGBT Youth Promote Justice By Creating Their Own Media
We face grave dangers to social gains that have been hard won by social movements: the possibility of a so-called “religious freedom”...
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5.8KShame Affect: An Underlying Emotion in Children
A caring and compassionate adult can provide a strong, corrective emotional experience for a child by consistently showing them that they are...
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1.3KBathroom Bills and Trans Youth
As a queer Jewish teenager, I have the uncommon privilege of having relationships with people between 20 and 50 years older than...
