Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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The Path Less Traveled
The path of a college education isn’t always a straight one. This essay, written by Arlington, Va., native Alissandra Hipona as a...
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Top Headlines 6/29
Education/Jobs Stephen Steigleder, writing for the Center for American Progress website, provides a guide to the Senate bill to reauthorize the Workforce...
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Top Headlines 6/10
Child Welfare Pam Adams of the Journal Star reports on the lawsuit filed by Catholic Charities agencies in Peoria, Springfield and Joliet...
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Top Headlines 5/11
Child Welfare Connecticut came up well short of its goal of adding 850 new foster families in accordance with a federal court...
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Top Headlines 5/10
Child Welfare Michigan caseworkers don’t get to take children into foster care without a judge’s say-so, writes state child welfare director Maura...
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Top Headlines 4/21
Child Welfare North Dakota needs a child welfare ombudsman, among other things, writes activist John Ford in an op-ed that appeared in...
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Weekly Notes: Recidivism apples vs. Recidivism oranges; juvenile justice and the 2011 budget deal; guide to for-profit colleges; and more
***The staff at Youth Today has been hard at work finishing up our April print issue, which by the way include our...
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Top Headlines 4/14
Child Welfare Stacey Patton reports for Black Voice News on the report released a few months ago that found that racial bias...
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Top Headlines 4/1
Child Welfare Journal-Inquirer Managing Editor Chris Powell mourns what he calls just another month in Connecticut’s decline, citing a number of violent...
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Top Headlines 3/30
Child Welfare Texas is the latest state to face a class-action lawsuit from nonprofit litigator Children’s Rights, reports Terri Langford of the...
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Top Headlines 3/29
Child Welfare The New Jersey Star-Ledger said trying two New York City caseworkers for criminally negligent homicide could have a “chilling effect”...
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Race and Beyond: Majority Minority Toddlers
Cold, hard facts are unassailable, but often are disregarded. Such ignorance comes with looming peril. Here’s a pair of textbook examples. Fact...
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Top Headlines 3/7
Child Welfare Ana Valdes of the Palm Beach Post reports that three events to be held today could all shed light on...
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Weekly Notes: Push-back on the Obama JJ plan; Major Luzerne update; Onion paying attention to juvenile justice issues; and more
***The President released his 2012 budget on Monday, and it included a proposal to drastically change the structure of federal juvenile justice...
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Let’s Help Youth Who Are in Doubt and in Debt
Once again, young people are bearing the brunt of our failure to monitor effectively the institutions they go to for help. You...
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Top Headlines 1/7
Child Welfare George State Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver wrote a long op-ed in yesterday’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the state’s use of psychotropic...
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Top Headlines 12/28
Child Welfare Richard Wexler of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, in an op-ed that appeared in The Oklahoman last week,...
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Top Headlines 12/17
Child Welfare Stories from three states where settlements from class-action lawsuits from nonprofit litigator Children’s Rights are still being monitored: The Tennessean...
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The $5 Billion Blunder
Suppose that, five years ago, you had a large sum of money to invest and two financial advisors competing for your business....
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Top Headlines 11/9
Child Welfare Washington, D.C. has settled for $10 million with a five-year-old boy who the city placed with an abusive foster mother,...
