Guest Opinion Essay Archives | Page 48 of 78

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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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No 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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Summer 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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Advice 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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Fair 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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A 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...

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Youth 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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We 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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Addiction 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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Low-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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I 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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Spike 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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We 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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Supporting 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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We 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...