Youth Today
Opinion
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1.8KLive on Washington: The Evolution of a Teen-Curated Festival, and Why It’s Important
It’s late spring, 2012, and 15 teenagers sit around a rectangular table on the second floor of the Neutral Zone, Ann Arbor’s...
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2.2KHealth and Human Services Misinterprets Foster Care Data
Let’s assume that there has been a real increase in parental substance abuse. The biggest flaw in HHS’ logic is the implicit...
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Data-Driven & Collective Impact: How Youth Agencies Can Show What Works
In his aptly titled book “Show Me the Evidence,” Ron Haskins demonstrates how nonprofits and community programs today must prove their value...
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2.3KPull Up One More Chair For Youth
Young people’s lived experience speak to viable solutions that policymakers might otherwise never come upon. The best first step for anyone looking...
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3.3KRemaking a Life: Inside and Out
I had been accused of a serious crime at the age of 17, and because the courts wanted to charge me as...
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800Draw From Juvenile Justice System’s Strengths for Better Approaches for Young Adults
The response to the behavior of a young adult shouldn’t happen in a police station, prison or jail, but should happen in...
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1.9KWe Have to Partner with Law Enforcement Around Trauma
Is there a need for trauma-informed training for police officers? Let me share an example of a situation where the outcome could...
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1.7KEffective Reentry Services: Valuing the People behind the Practices
As practitioners and researchers, our emphases on evidence-based practices often focus our attentions on services and systems.
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1.8KUsing Learning Theory to Combat Burnout in Child Welfare Professionals
In the new year and with an uncertain political and policy landscape afoot, youth-serving agencies must prioritize how traumatic experiences may affect...
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1.8KWays to Let Detained Youth Know They’re Not Forgotten This Holiday Season
As the holidays approach, we often forget there are so many youth who are detained, in placement or simply away from their...
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Needless Removal, Not ‘Drug Plague,’ Drives Foster Care Numbers Hike in Arkansas
In 2015, for the third year in a row, the number of children taken from their parents, and the number of children...
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6.5KSailing through Memory
My mind is somewhat of a junkyard, full of twisted metal and lost souls, and I sweat as I run from demons...
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2.7KGrief Support for Children and Teens: Play, Share, Mourn
Teen girls taking a chance climbing a telephone pole belayed by their friends, a 14-year-old learning to ride a bike, children visiting...
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2.8KHow to Reduce the Use of Chemical Restraints on Foster Children
We American taxpayers spend many, many millions of dollars on chemical restraints, also known as antipsychotic medications, that we administer to children...
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2.7KAll I Really Need to Know About Social Work I Learned in Clubhouse
One of my first jobs in human services was at a Clubhouse, a local community center that provides individuals diagnosed with serious...
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2.0KCompassion Fatigue: What Happens When Helpers Need Help?
A friend of mine is a mental health and substance use disorder counselor for youth. Let’s call her Lisa. Lisa has a...
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1.9KA Letter from the Editor
"I woke up this morning and felt ..." This is a chorus, a refrain I'm seeing on social media platforms of all...
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2.3KCasting My First Ballot — Every Vote Matters, Even if it Doesn’t
After having phone-banked and canvassed numerous times without being able to cast a ballot, it felt wonderful to walk into the building...
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1.6KVote To Give Youth Multiple Chances
I’m asking you to use your vote to prioritize multiple chances for all our youth. Valuing this philosophy might do more than...
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How We Can Build Better Career Pathways for America’s Youth
While the U.S. is on track to have one of its best years for job growth in 2016 since the Great Recession,...
