Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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2.9KHow to Help ‘People’ People Interpret and Use Data
Walking into our monthly meeting for preventive services program management, we couldn’t miss the giant chart with numerous hand-written lines of different...
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2.8KState-sanctioned Ransom Should Have No Place in Child Welfare
A March 3 Philadelphia Inquirer story begins this way: After 12 years with an abusive partner — 12 years of black eyes...
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3.5KI Used to Love America: How a Racist Jail System Changed Me
I spent my 18th birthday incarcerated, and saw many of my peers do the same. Our formative years formed within the confines...
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621Placing Students Last Doesn’t Make America Great
Federal budget director Mick Mulvaney recently revealed that President Donald Trump’s “skinny budget” proposal titled, “America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make...
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5.7KIf Everyone Thought Like a Social Worker
In a time of national transition and international turmoil, it seems particularly important to draw from the most basic principles of social...
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947Just One Story About How Our President’s Rulings Affect Kids Today
When I was the adolescent administrative program director in an outpatient substance abuse treatment facility, I was having lunch in my office...
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1.5KUniversity-based Research, Treatment Under One Roof: The Future of Combating Child Abuse
One in every five children around the world suffers abuse, neglect and trauma during their childhood. In the United States, “Child Maltreatment...
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1.3KNot Enough Letters? About Our March-April 2017 Print Edition
Throughout our March-April 2017 print publication, which has a cover package of stories focused on LGBT youth, we have used the acronym...
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2.8KMake My President Black Again
It wasn’t until I had gotten locked up at the age of 18 that I began to willingly learn and deeply care...
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1.2KThe Forgotten Ones: New Jersey’s Locked-up Girls
Have you heard of the Bordentown School? Founded by the Rev. Walter Rice, Bordentown...
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1.5KConnection, Support Helps Us Build Our Youth Movement
That is why dismantling young people’s oppression in the era of Trump is one of our fundamental objectives.
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946More Than Tears: What Congress Can Learn From a Baby’s Cries
The new administration and Congress have the opportunity to commit to a stronger economy and future workforce by investing in our children’s...
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3.9KSouth Dakota Child Welfare: Where Kangaroo Court Is Always in Session
Of all the crimes against children committed in the name of “child protection,” none is worse than when white America weaponized child...
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2.8KA Year of VISTA Service: Five Lessons for Nonprofit Practitioners and Other Service Members
Derek Moore and Nicole Smith completed their AmeriCorps VISTA service this week. During their year of service, they supported the launch of...
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Confessions of a Caseworker: We Remove Kids to Protect Ourselves
It’s hard to imagine many jobs more difficult than that of a caseworker for a child protective services agency.
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1.2KCalling the Press the Enemy Is Obscene
Most of the time, it’s best to ignore outrageous statements. After all, if you tried to respond to every outrageous statement this...
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1.5KContinuum of Professional Development Should Target Needs, Develop Talents
Our approach to staff development should be rethought and and expanded. A continuum of professional development that targets individual needs, fosters and...
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2.6KBefore Learning Coping Skills, Juveniles Must Be Taught to Control Their Body
Adolescents involved in the juvenile justice system are commonly referred to mental health services in order to address the behaviors that led...
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3.0KCultivating Leaders: Scaffolding Successful Youth Outcomes with Strong Staff Supports
Holding hands, seven young people stood in a circle doing final breathing exercises before their entrance onto the stage — the culmination...
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4.5KIt’s Called Social Work, Not Women’s Work
In almost 10 years as a social worker, I cannot count the number of times people have referred to my profession as...
