Youth Today
Opinion
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1.7KWe Know Enough to Act: What Research Says (Again) About Effectively Supporting Youth
In the late 1990s, there was a dispiriting sense that many disadvantaged young people were too difficult to work with, that they...
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1.7KKeeping Schools Safe While Reducing Suspensions and Expulsions
There’s good news and bad news in the report “Indicators of School Crime and Safety 2015,” the most recent in an annual...
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1.3KStrategies, Tools for Educators to Dismantle School-to-Prison Pipeline
Many educators view a new school year as an opportunity for improvement, a fresh start and a chance to reset, especially with...
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1.7KFashion Fines, Felonies Not the Way to Get Teens to Stop Sagging Their Pants
According to my Facebook timeline, yet another fashion trend is on its way out. Fashion comes and goes, right? But none of...
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2.1KHow Many Children Are in the Foster Care Twilight Zone?
When cases involving children needlessly torn from their families would arise in Texas — like this one and this one — advocates...
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What Does Trauma-informed Mean to Foster Youth?
For three decades, I have listened in awe to the brave voices of children, youth and families who have shared, in anguish,...
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1.7KThe Revolution That Restorative Detention Can Be
“This doesn’t look like any detention I ever seen!” Marcus says about the ring of chairs I’ve set up for our school’s...
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1.7KRedouble Efforts to Help More Students Graduate
Just 10 years ago, the nation’s on-time high school graduation rate was hovering around 70 percent, where it had been stuck for...
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2.2KPersonal Development for the OST Workforce: A Shift in Focus for a Growing Field
Professional development in the out-of-school-time (OST) field has been on an evolutionary curve in recent times.
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1.3KIn the Wake of Racial Injustice … What Should Youth Workers Do?
This editorial is based on a series of Facebook posts that occurred in the wake of the deaths of Alton Sterling and...
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2.5KAnger Management and the Code of the Street
The room was stuffy and hot, the scent of stale snack foods hung in the air and the boys in the anger...
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6.2KWe Need to Understand How to Provide Trauma-informed Care
The philosophy of trauma-informed care is becoming more and more embedded in the philosophies and practices of child-serving agencies.
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1.6KHow Can We Protect Teen Workers from Occupational Dangers?
There is a shocking variety to the way teens die or are injured in the workplace. You can help protect young workers...
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2.5KIt Takes Zero Intelligence to Still Support Zero Tolerance in Schools
It doesn’t matter how great the teachers are or how much money we throw at education if we don’t configure our systems...
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Teaching Moment: Police Brutality and Raising a Black Son
What is happening right before our children’s eyes is the very R-rated stuff they’re not allowed to see at the movie theaters....
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1.6KCongress Takes a Step Back in Fight to Reduce Childhood Hunger
It is essential that Congress works to improve and expand these proven programs rather than put children at greater risk of hunger...
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1.6KIncarcerated Youth Not Free Even After Their Release
At our country’s 240th birthday, I am reminded of our forefathers’ preamble to the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to...
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1.0KIncrease Investment for Youth Intervention Services To Combat Legislative Gridlock
Lawmakers need to understand that their current responses to limited resources are ignoring the needs of youth. By failing to look at...
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2.2KThe Importance of Confidentiality for Effective SBIRT Interventions for Teens
For the SBIRT model to work, an open and honest conversation must occur between a young person and practitioner. But for a...
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1.2KProtecting the Planet: Summer Programs Are a Great Place to Start
Working with youth in summer programs is a great opportunity to teach about protecting the planet. It’s essential that we teach them...
