Youth Today
Opinion
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3.6KEffective Financial Literacy: What Youths Need to Know, When They Need to Know It
Almost 20 percent of all young people around age 15 are not financially literate — they don’t have skills like budgeting income...
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779The Curse of Custody: Enduring Incarceration
Some of the most gifted educators in the field are found inside. The constraints of detention, maintaining safety and security, educating explosive...
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2.5KBuilding a Future: The Benefits of Entering an Apprenticeship Program
In fall 2016, 20.5 million students attended American colleges and universities, including 6.3 million in community colleges. My nephew, Sam, is one...
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3.8KArt As Resilience and Another Form of Therapy
I worked at earning credits while I was inside juvenile hall, and in 2016 when I was released into placement in, I...
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2.5KThe Necessary Ingredients in a Youth Employment Mix
As with almost every social undertaking, youth employment involves numerous stakeholders, each of which has its own perspective, goals, issues and vested...
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12.6KTwo 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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1.2KProgram 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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2.3KSkill-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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3.6KPick 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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2.5KKeep 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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2.3KBringing 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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6.9KBattling 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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2.4KSafe 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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1.5KSpeak 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...
