Youth Today
Opinion
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1.9KSubstance Abuse Prevention Must Move Beyond Health Care Settings
To turn the tide on opiate addiction and right the course of many young lives before intensive and costly treatment is needed,...
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1.3KPilot Program Giving Dual Status Youth the Trauma-Informed Care, Connections They Need
Cook County now has a pilot program for dual status youth. It’s an intensive wraparound program with up to 30 hours a...
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1.2KSlum Living: When Access as Proxy for Quality Is Life-Threatening
The summer after my second year teaching, I traveled to Malawi — one of the poorest nations in east Africa — with...
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2.0KHaving the Right Stuff: Hiring High-Quality Summer Camp Staff
Organizations should take a planful approach to the recruitment and hiring process for summer program staff to improve program quality overall, quality...
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Because I’m Free
A young writer’s story indicates many places where youth workers and systems could have intervened — healing child sexual abuse, treating drug...
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1.6KChild Abuse Fatalities Commission Staggers to a Close
During a congressional hearing in 2011, Michael Petit, who then ran an organization called Every Child Matters, was asked which states do...
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1.4KOrphanages Were a Safe Refuge for Many Children
Orphanages are not cruel institutions as so many people think. It is a home where children have opportunities to be loved and...
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1.4KYouth Workers Need to Be Alert to Juveniles Placed in Solitary
Sometimes it takes a tragic and heartrending story of a single human being to move broad public policy. In the instance of...
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1.3KDon’t Overlook These Areas When Picking a Treatment Center for Children
Hitting eight years sober means I’ve officially been in recovery longer than I was in active addiction. That’s something incredibly special to...
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Getting Myself Back: Living in Foster Care with People Who Let Me Be a Child
The last fight between my mother and stepfather was severe enough to get them both arrested. With nowhere else to go, we...
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1.5KUnmasking the Youth Addiction Crisis
The shift puts a glaring light on the way Americans fight for white lives. One select group is differentiated from the rest...
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1.1KLearning From Each Other: Programs Shouldn’t Work in Silos
While it’s important to determine if our schools are providing children the academic foundation to succeed, these reports mask some of the...
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1.6KAlcohol and College Students: A Study in Prevention
College students are an interesting and important group of drinkers to study. As a group, 18- to 24-year olds are among the...
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Got Lead Poisoned Water in Flint? Need Help? Hook a Garden Hose to Your Neighbor’s Faucet
The problems the disenfranchised suffer are often made worse by the systems intended to help and support society. In Flint, the water...
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2.2KPartnering with Schools Reduces Hunger Among School Kids and Families
Hunger in America is not so much a lack of access to food; it’s a lack of access to nutrition. School-based programs...
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1.7KSolitary Reform Shows Power of Brain Science to Change Policy
Compelling brain science is finally starting to make its way into the formation of policies — and we need to keep it...
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Touring the Hellscape of Texas Foster Care
Twenty years ago, when the foster care system in Illinois was at its worst, with 50,000 children trapped in foster care, an...
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2.3KProtecting Children from Sexual Abuse: Texas Serves As a Model
Jenna Quinn is a hero, and her courage is changing the lives of children in Texas. Sexually abused by her basketball coach,...
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1.1KChoosing the Positive Narrative for Black Children in America
My son turned 13 last weekend. In the back of my mind, I’m thinking he is now eligible to be charged as...
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949Babies and Poverty: Top 5 Things Presidential Candidates, Voters Need to Know
While federal spending is projected to increase in the coming year, virtually none of that spending will be directed toward children.
