Youth Today
Opinion
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1.1KCities: Tap Your Kids to Build Better Policies
What if cities across the country could fortify their commitment to greater equity for young people and create a culture of democratic...
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2.1KDynamic Dialogues: Real Conversations About Identity
In a nation divided by demographics, conversations about race, class and gender are almost always emotionally charged. Yet, understanding powerful feelings can...
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1.4KWhat Having Certified Child- and Youth-Care Workers Means to Our Organization
In my role as a senior manager, there’s nothing more reassuring than hearing that a young person had an experience of feeling...
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2.4KInaction and Unbudging Tally Keeps Our Juvenile Courts the Same
I try to remain conscious of my own role in perpetuating a system of racial and socioeconomic inequality. Have I failed to...
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1.5KSurvivors of Human Trafficking Need Our Understanding, Help
January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month, first proclaimed by President Barack Obama several years ago as a time for governments, nongovernmental organizations...
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2.2KDoes ’30 Million-Word Gap’ Have Gap in Authenticity?
According to the Clinton Foundation, the word gap is too big to ignore and “too small to fail.” This gap — also...
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1.0KIs Data Getting a Bad Rap?
Down with data! Our children are more than just numbers! I hear this rallying cry from many teachers and some parents across...
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1.8KMicroaggressions Sting Youth of Color
There is nothing benign about microaggressions. They lead to mistreating people of color: harassing them, meting out harsher legal or academic punishment,...
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1.8KTANF, Child Welfare Partnerships Help Strengthen Families
Linkages is one of a handful of initiatives across the country taking a critical look at the intersection between TANF and child...
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1.4KDoes Your Work Interfere with Your Life?
Find a focal point for your career that stirs your soul. Joseph Campbell advised, “Follow your bliss.” Good counsel in general, but...
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667Time to Give the Quarterbacks of OST a Fat Raise
Until we pay front-line staff as professionals and give them budgets and resources commensurate of what we expect from them, the OST...
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1.1KWhat Professional Credentials Mean to Me
July 17, 1996, was a Wednesday and, unbeknownst to me, the first day of my child- and youth-care career. I vividly remember...
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1.2KWe Must Continue to Advocate for Funding for Afterschool Programs
How can we close the gap between public support and public dollars for afterschool? In a word, advocacy.
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‘Kiddie Court’ Is No Joke to Juveniles
Although the media, members of the public and even some JPOs, prosecutors and judges colloquially refer to juvenile court as “kiddie court,”...
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748As Officer Kills Without Consequence in Ferguson, Let’s Look at Profiling, Education’s Silent Serial Killer for Black Kids
NEW ORLEANS — It took 14 weeks for the grand jury in Ferguson to decide no charges will be filed against the...
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2.6KData-Driven Decisions: A Myth or Reality for Out-of-School Time?
The recent economic crisis has intensified challenges throughout the nonprofit sector. Nowhere is the strain felt more than in the field of...
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964Ferguson Latest Example That Courts Don’t Bring Justice
In this moment of high drama when the nation’s attention is focused on Ferguson, it is important to remember something: The entire...
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1.2KBoth Pope Francis, U.N. Call on Us to Do Better by Our Children
As we observe the 25th anniversary of the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) Thursday, Pope Francis’ recent...
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1.3KReading Everywhere Program Demonstrates the Value of Reading
Literacy Inc. (LINC) is an early literacy organization dedicated to spreading the joy of reading throughout communities across New York City.
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1.2KBuild Partnerships to Build Success
Effectiveness. Scale. Sustainability. Most nonprofits struggle to achieve these three goals. Few struggle more than youth service providers.
