Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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3.1KYouth 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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4.4KWhy 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...
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942Some Courts Recreating Debtors’ Prison
Across the U.S., even minor criminal charges can create insurmountable debt burdens for already-struggling families.
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1.4KThe Traps That Thwart Readiness and Wellness
Four traps that get in the way of readiness: Knowing these has transformed how I think about readiness.
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1.0KSubstance Use Disorder: A Chronic Health Issue Must Be Treated as Such
Unfortunately in this country, services for mental health and addiction are treated as acute — even though characteristics mirror a chronic health...
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1.8KTANF Helps Support Homeless Families
Approximately one in every 30 U.S. children are homeless. To address this gap, housing service providers are partnering with TANF.
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1.4KA Gateway Drug Can Be the First Step on the Way Out
I sold a lot of stuff at school: candy, soda, bike parts, fireworks, pocket knives and, of course, marijuana.
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1.1KBystanders are Key to Preventing Sexual Assault
Perceived peer pressure to engage in sexual conquests creates the incentives for a sexual assault. But the audience that can fuel these...
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1.5KGiving Up to Grow Up: Helping Youth Manage Relationship Trade-Offs
How to enable our students and clients to put relationships in perspective and make only those trade-offs that are best for them.
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1.8K‘Somebody Asked:’ A Simple Strategy to Address Substance Use
Conversations with young people in recovery unearth a common thread: the missed opportunities where a caring adult could have intervened before life...
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2.2KUsing Online App to Implement Each One Teach One
Our 100 Peace Builder teens’ reach of 4,000 of their peers and some adults through connection circles taught me that “each one...
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1.3KThe U.S.’ Puzzling Refusal to Ratify the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child
This inaction flies in the face of our professed beliefs in human rights and international freedom.
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1.2KSupport Quality After-School Programming: Upending Conventional Wisdom
While more than half of parents say they would like their child to participate, just one-third report having at least one child...
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3.2KRed Flag the Red-flag Case Notes or Face Disaster
Child welfare workers can avert disasters by doing one simple thing: note red flag concerns front and center.
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2.9KYouth Document Their Communities Through Photo Essays
Who better to describe what it’s like growing up in San Francisco’s so-called underbelly than the young people who live there?
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How Adverse Childhood Experiences Impact Health and Well-being
Take the Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Questionnaire and find out what your ACE score is, and what it means.
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1.6KTeachers Must Learn to Let Go to Enable Project-Based Learning
Project-based learning (PBL) has been a key instructional strategy in many of the summer learning initiatives NIOST studied — in fact, it’s...
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1.6KFinding a New Life through Quality Residential Care
Thomas’s stay in residential care was only supposed to last a couple of days, but it proved to be the turning point...
