Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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2.6KYouth Workers Need Defined, Broad Career Paths
As a youth worker, I’ve always felt more like the overlapping part of a Venn diagram rather than one of the neat...
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1.6KWe Know How to Help Foster Kids Despite Past Trauma
We may be keeping children safe from physical harm, but are we paying attention to the impact on their brains, their mental...
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1.7KAddiction Treatment for Teens: Should It Be Abstinence-based?
My experience in teenage treatment was gained sitting as a patient. Not one of the programs, not one therapist or clinician, suggested...
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1.5KLow-income Kids Need to Be Taught How to Negotiate Life
In under-resourced households, one often has these three choices when it comes to dealing with an issue: flee, fight or flow. But...
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1.4KI Chose the Wrong Mom
Now, things have gone bad with my birth mom again. She’s off drugs, but she still screams abuse at me and dates...
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1.5KSpike Lee’s Film ’Chiraq’ Exploits Poor Neighborhoods, Chicago
I’m tired of everyone skirting around the issues of inequality and avoiding any kind of hazard that comes along with making a...
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What Interventions Are Critical for Foster Children in Generation K?
Economist and author Noreena Hertz created the name from that generation’s “Hunger Games” icon, Katniss Everdeen, after surveying 1,000 British and American...
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1.1KWe Can Save Foster Children With Education
While foster children’s well-being has long been a federally mandated objective, along with safety and permanency, it is the goal we are...
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2.6KSupporting Young Fathers in Their Parenting Journey
While some young fathers talk of the birth of their child as “the best day of my life,” others recall feelings of...
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1.5KWe Must Stop Criminalizing Adolescence
Research has shown that incarcerating status offenders can exacerbate their underlying problems, as they come in contact with more serious offenders, negatively...
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1.4KA Few Simple Questions Can End Homelessness and Sex Trafficking Now
It took me more than 10 years to ask a few simple questions: How can 56,000 unaccompanied minors experience homelessness each night...
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1.0KActivating Youth on Climate Change Is Crucial
Young people need to understand climate change, but all too often the climate change and green movement uses fear-based instruction.
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1.1K‘Our Systems Need to Do Better’ … Or We’re Doomed
Based on my experience on the ground, in the field and in my household, it starts with our systems — education, youth...
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1.7KOST Programs in Rural Maine Make a Difference
The Afterschool Alliance estimated that by making after-school meals available, OST programs could help the approximately 15 million children in nationwide who...
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591Civil Citations Are Smart Justice for Juveniles
Research has shown that once a juvenile officially enters the criminal justice system he/she is not only more likely to re-enter it,...
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1.2KYoung Mothers in Foster Care: Resilience in Action
The reasons for these higher birth rates among young women in the foster care system are complex. Trauma and the search for...
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1.2KTime to Foster Safety, Well-Being, Permanency for LGBTQ Youth
The time is now for child welfare leaders to acknowledge that we have neglected to fully and responsibly address the unique challenges...
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1.4KShaping the Culture of a Generation, One Relationship at a Time
Professionals working with adolescents can use the relationship effectively in their work by deliberately exhibiting specific skills that demonstrate respect, authenticity, kindness,...
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2.1KSalsa Scholars: Getting Kids Moving, Reading and Writing!
Good Shepherd Services is a New York City nonprofit serving about 2,700 K-8th graders through 27 afterschool programs located in low income...
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1.1KTell Them About It: Preventing Addictions by Creating Awareness
Talking about drugs and alcohol to adolescents can be a pretty scary thing. No matter how difficult or complicated we feel this...
