Youth Today
Opinion
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1.1KNew Opportunities to Support Youth Employment
The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 was the first reform of the public workforce system in 15 years. Now, Regional...
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1.5KFoster Mom Reflects on Family Unification, Separation
My daughter called yesterday with some exciting news. She has decided to go back to school to be a social worker. I...
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Attention Child Savers: Your Double Standards Are Showing
A horrific act of child abuse can be exploited as easily as a horrific act of terrorism. And when a child known...
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3.3KFirst-generation College Students from Poverty Have Many Hurdles
I have helped many young people with financial support for college, both personally and through my company. This year I am funding...
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4.7KThe Missing Component in Sex Education: Healthy Relationship Education
In the past several decades, the United States has seen a significant drop in the adolescent pregnancy rate: from 116.9 pregnancies per...
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1.6KCommunity Programs Are Safe Haven for Foster Children
I go to the local Boys and Girls Club every Monday afternoon to pick up Amanda (children’s names have been changed) for...
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1.3KTrauma-informed Groups Serve Clients Better
We’re entering a remarkable age of a new understanding about why we behave the way we do and how to change those...
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1.2KLetting Our Youth Take the Lead
Everyone wants our youth to succeed academically — perhaps none more so than those of us who have dedicated our lives to...
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1.6KWhen a clock is only a clock: Dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline
Fourteen-year-old Ahmed Mohamed captured the attention of the public in September when he was arrested during his first weeks at MacArthur High...
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1.7KThe Race Our School and Students Didn’t Win: Aging-out of Adolescence
The year before we opened our charter school in St. Louis, another one had closed. It was a school for dropouts, ages...
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1.0KThe Secret Behind Youth Justice Reform: Youth
We sometimes skip class, talk back to teachers and experiment with marijuana. I was shocked to learn that in some areas of...
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2.6KUse Student-First Language to Stop Bullying Behavior
October was bullying prevention month and there were programs all over the country to highlight bullying as an ongoing issue in schools.
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‘Disturbing Schools’ Law and School Resource Officers Criminalize Teens
The video of a school resource officer violently slamming an African-American teenage girl to the floor and then dragging her across the...
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2.3KSupport for LGBTQ Youth Can Reduce Drugs and Alcohol Abuse
The evidence is clear and alarming: Teens who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBTQ) are more likely to use drugs...
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1.4KThe Test of Time: Finding a Way to Stay Clean for My Daughter
We just got back from feeding Harlow at the hospital, and we were hanging out in the motor home. I was getting...
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3.5KWhat Does Hair Have to Do With Reading and Writing?
We need to use youth’s culture as the central focus in planning after-school programs. This might include incorporating African-American youth’s linguistic resource,...
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3.2KYouth Voices Are Central to Effort to Reauthorize JJDPA
October is Youth Justice Awareness Month, and as consensus builds in the Senate and the House around the need for criminal justice...
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2.9KCareer Pathways: Creating a Pipeline to Employment for Young Adults
In 2014, approximately 5.6 million young people were out of work or school, and the youth unemployment rate was double that of...
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2.3KScreening Youth for Depression Saves Lives
National Depression Screening Day (NDSD), Oct. 8, is an ideal time to promote depression awareness in schools and after-school programs.
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4.7KWhy We Need to Rethink Our Conceptions of Adolescence
The paradox of adolescence is that the same changes in the brain that increase adolescents’ propensity toward risk also allow for enhanced...
