Youth Today
Opinion
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4.2KNeedless 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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2.9KHow 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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2.8KAll 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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2.1KCompassion 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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2.0KA 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,...
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Alaska’s Unreasonable Assault on ‘Reasonable Efforts’
Yes, the reasonable efforts clause has lots of loopholes. But it does not say “make reasonable efforts unless you don’t have time.”
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4.2KPassion and Community: How Justice-involved Youth Are Helping Peers Outside Their Walls
“Tell me about a time you made a mistake.”
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2.2KImprove Youth Employment While Maintaining Our National Parks
As major-party presidential candidates say they will focus on creating more jobs in America, one wonders why there isn’t more attention given...
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1.9KIncluding Adolescents in Two-Generation Human Service Approaches
Nearly 9 million of the 25 million adolescents in this country live in low-income households today, and of that 9 million, almost...
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5.3KMental Illness: The Last Acceptable Stereotype?
A series of news stories about the failed mental health system in Massachusetts focused on the tragic loss of life that has...
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2.1KDear U.S. Presidential Candidate,
"How will my life be better if you are president?" "Dear Candidate," Youth Today's latest stirring visual piece, features young people of...
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2.6KFoster Youth Need Academic Support to Succeed
For years, the child welfare system in America has focused on the most urgent needs of the children it...
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4.1KYou Don’t Have the Right to Talk Dirty to a Child
We all know the horror stories of predators luring children online to meet in person. Most states have laws that criminalize luring,...
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Here’s a Collaborative Way to End Homelessness Among LGBT Youth
The primary reason for all youth homelessness may be related to family conflict, but for LGBT youth sexual orientation and/or gender identity...
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3.8KWhere Are All the Male Mentors?
By nearly every measure, youth mentoring programs work.
