Youth Today
Opinion
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2.3KTANF Helps Support Homeless Families
Approximately one in every 30 U.S. children are homeless. To address this gap, housing service providers are partnering with TANF.
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1.8KA Gateway Drug Can Be the First Step on the Way Out
I sold a lot of stuff at school: candy, soda, bike parts, fireworks, pocket knives and, of course, marijuana.
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1.5KBystanders are Key to Preventing Sexual Assault
Perceived peer pressure to engage in sexual conquests creates the incentives for a sexual assault. But the audience that can fuel these...
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1.9KGiving Up to Grow Up: Helping Youth Manage Relationship Trade-Offs
How to enable our students and clients to put relationships in perspective and make only those trade-offs that are best for them.
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2.2K‘Somebody Asked:’ A Simple Strategy to Address Substance Use
Conversations with young people in recovery unearth a common thread: the missed opportunities where a caring adult could have intervened before life...
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3.0KUsing Online App to Implement Each One Teach One
Our 100 Peace Builder teens’ reach of 4,000 of their peers and some adults through connection circles taught me that “each one...
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1.9KThe U.S.’ Puzzling Refusal to Ratify the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child
This inaction flies in the face of our professed beliefs in human rights and international freedom.
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1.7KSupport 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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4.0KRed 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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3.5KYouth 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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How 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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2.0KTeachers 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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2.0KFinding 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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2.8KI 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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2.6KIncorporating 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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2.0KHonor 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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1.6KJustice 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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2.5KThe 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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2.1KRecovery 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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2.4KMaking 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.
