Youth Today
Opinion
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2.7KThe Importance of Confidentiality for Effective SBIRT Interventions for Teens
For the SBIRT model to work, an open and honest conversation must occur between a young person and practitioner. But for a...
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1.4KProtecting the Planet: Summer Programs Are a Great Place to Start
Working with youth in summer programs is a great opportunity to teach about protecting the planet. It’s essential that we teach them...
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4.0KStop TANF from Being the Child Welfare Slush Fund
In the great debate over child welfare finance reform, few are paying attention to one of the biggest scandals surrounding how we...
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3.7KImplicit Bias: More Than Just a Few Bad Apples
Youth of color experience the worst outcomes in every youth-serving system, including law enforcement, child welfare and education, the data show conclusively.
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1.9KHow Youth Workers and Organizations Can be Real Allies to LGBT Youth
Moments like this define my job as an ally. As facilitator of the Atlanta Coalition for LGBTQ youth, I’d like to share...
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3.0KChild Maltreatment History Should Be a Bar to Being a Foster Parent
It’s just common sense: An adult's past criminal history or history of child maltreatment is not to be balanced against the safety...
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2.1KEducation Crucial Partner for Dual Status Youth to Improve
National reform efforts to support dual status youth have focused primarily on improving collaboration between the child welfare and juvenile justice systems....
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Ending In-person Visits for Video Conferencing Hurts Families, Especially Children
How would you react if suddenly hospitals simply replaced in-person patient visitation with video conferencing? Hospital administrators might justify this decision by...
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1.8KTo Engage Teens, Give Them Real Voice in Decision Making
Despite growing national interest in increasing out-of-school-time opportunities for high school aged students, many programs for older youth struggle to attract and...
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1.9KSubstance Use Among Teens Is Never Benign
Adolescence is a time of growth and potential but also a time of risk-taking and experimentation with drugs and alcohol, which can...
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2.6KTaking a Systemic Approach to Access and Equity in After-school
Quality after-school opportunities benefit children in many ways, but millions of disadvantaged youth don’t have access to good programs.
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1.5KWe Must Decriminalize Trauma for Girls with Histories of Abuse or Neglect
Girls’ involvement in the juvenile justice system is growing disproportionately at a time when arrest rates for boys are declining.
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3.6KLegalized Torture: A Solitary Confinement Experience
"After just 24 hours, I testify that solitary confinement is hell on earth. Solitary confinement is legalized torture," says Anyssa Williams, a...
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2.0KSelfishly Selfless: Social Anxiety, Addiction and the Benefits of Service
People in recovery vividly recall their first experiences with drugs and alcohol as teenagers.
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2.7KNo Job, No Home, No Green Card: Crashing Into 21
“Do you know you’re an illegal immigrant?” I was 19 when my social worker asked me this question. Shocked and confused, I...
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1.6KTime to End State-sanctioned Assaults on Our Schoolchildren
When I arrived in North Carolina more than a decade ago to teach and practice law, it was a bit of a...
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9.7KConsidering a Research-Informed Theoretical Framework for Trauma-Informed Approaches
Trauma-informed self-sufficiency programs are in their infancy in assessing how, where and when to address trauma among their clients. But new frameworks...
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1.6KWe Need Better Legal Protection for Young People in the Justice System
Think back to yourself at 14 or 15 years old. You’ve just started high school. But you’re not at school now —...
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1.7KPreventive Services Saved My Family
I was pregnant when I aged out of foster care. My boyfriend and I wanted to have the baby, but I worried...
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5.0KThe Outdoor Adventure Gap: We Must Help Young People Spend Time in Nature
The imbalance of indoor recreation — like screen time — and outdoor play is cause for concern. Young people experience mental, physical...
