Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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1.9KI Couldn’t Save My Mom
Drugs tear families apart — it did to mine. I was just 12 years old when I realized that my mother was...
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2.1KIncorporating More Youth Voice into Our Work
We have found running our national youth advisory board to be essential to our work.
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1.6KHonor Thy Youth Group: Interacting with the Young and Religious
“Honor thy parents” is an oft-repeated proverb, but for the health of all faiths, I hope adults will remember to really listen...
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1.2KJustice System Must Not Worsen Harsh Realities of Life for LGBT Youth
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender kids want to be accepted, as do all teenagers — even in court.
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2.0KThe Struggles Of An Addict
Every day is a struggle for us addicts, and, yet, despite our failures and relapses, every day is a new day to...
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1.6KRecovery from Substance Use Disorders and Risky Use: Everyone Has the Right to Get Well
Ever-improving brain science validates that addiction is a brain disorder, but the current behavioral-health system is not set up to work. It...
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1.9KMaking Health Care Access Easier for Young People Leaving Foster Care
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is creating new pathways to health care for current and former foster youth.
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1.4KTreating Broken Hearts With Poor Mental Health Services
Many youth are deemed to have mental disabilities as a result of inadequate screening and the lack of responsive programming, particularly in...
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1.1KOvercoming Hopelessness for the Next Generation
“Without the help of good people and youth programs I would have a different life. I would have been one of those...
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7.1KHow to Build Safe Spaces: Define, Then Deliver
Providing “safe space” is critical for after-school programs in helping young people thrive. Most providers probably think they do that. But it...
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1.9KThe One Question Foster Care Workers Need to Ask Themselves
When I was in foster care, I knew very few other foster children. We had no support groups. I thought I was...
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1.4KMandated Reporters Need Training — Even If It’s Not Mandated
As a youth worker who works with kids on a regular basis, would you know what to do if you suspected that...
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1.2KHow Can You Deal with Loss, Betrayal, Death and Still Keep Your Hope?
We become boxed in. We give up hope. We may avoid the issue, become very anxious or become addicted to something. We...
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1.1KNo Substitute for Learning From Experience
As practicing lawyers inevitably learn, often two cases with very similar facts will be handled completely differently by two different judges —...
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1.3KSummer Learning, and Some Aren’t
What is needed is an all-out attack on summer learning loss, one that affords poor children the opportunities available routinely to children...
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How to Explain and Protect Youth of Color From Police Misconduct, Trauma
My daughter is deathly afraid of police. When I was pulled over for rolling through a stop sign when she was about...
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2.0KAdvice From a Former Foster Youth
I would have been better off if I had known all this information while I was in the foster care system. I...
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665Fair Justice Is Within Our Reach
The Community Conferencing Center is receiving diversion referrals of young people arrested during the Baltimore unrest. It is important to provide those...
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Hard-at-work Mom Takes No Breaks, Chances During Summer Vacation
I’m on a mission to make sure my two kids have a competitive advantage — and fun. They won’t be too overscheduled,...
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1.0KA Recovering Addict Reflects on the Disease of Addiction
Those of us who have been there and survived, faced addiction head-on and emerged victorious on the other side have a unique...
