Youth Today
Opinion
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1.3KSupport 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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3.3KRed 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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3.0KYouth 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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2.2KHow 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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1.7KTeachers 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...
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2.0KI 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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1.7KHonor 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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2.1KThe 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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1.7KRecovery 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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2.0KMaking 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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7.2KHow 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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1.5KMandated 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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How 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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1.2KNo 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 —...
