Youth Today
Opinion
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1.6KDepartment of Education, act now to empower youth experiencing homelessness
Throughout my final years of high school and college, I was homeless and on my own, without a parent or guardian to...
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2.1KHow podcasters are helping youth who stutter feel less alone
Maya Chupkov, a woman who stutters, produces and hosts "Proud Stutter," a podcast about shifting the narrative around stuttering. She shares some...
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1.9KThe Remix with Karen Pittman: Policies that erase Black, brown or LGBTQ youth are a crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken its toll on teens, accelerating the declines in youth mental health that were evident before the pandemic....
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2.2KRadically reimagining youth work in the wake of ‘freedom summer’
We tend to proclaim ourselves healed after every major racial event. George Floyd’s murder sends “shockwaves” across the globe and we embark...
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1.9KChildren’s book aims to combat stigma, uplift children with incarcerated parents
Incarceration is harmful not only to people held in confinement but to the health of their children who may experience post-traumatic stress...
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2.3KApprenticeships should be part of programming for juvenile offenders
One of the strongest elements of our diversion agreements was a structured community service program. The most successful programs treated juvenile referrals...
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The Remix with Karen Pittman: Ensuring youth access to people, places and possibilities
Youth don’t grow up in programs or systems, they grow up in communities. The outreach staff who innovated their work with homeless...
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1.9KEffective anti-violence efforts are trauma-informed
The past couple of years have been some of the deadliest for many major U.S. cities. Murder rates have spiked and gun...
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6.2KIn child welfare, if the solution is money, the problem is poverty
In the beginning, the builders of what would become a system of massive intrusion into families, and, ultimately, the separation of millions...
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The Remix with Karen Pittman: What it takes to get and keep youth in school
A story about Black elementary school children jailed for non-existent crimes caught my attention in October 2021 when it was first picked...
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1.8KAs some detention centers close, reviving “tough-on-crime” is bad policy
Recent surges in homicides and shootings have prompted some who are opposed to juvenile justice reforms to call for a return to...
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2.7KThe Remix with Karen Pittman: Bringing community educators into classrooms
In his December 3 Q&A with Brian Rinker, Michael Funk discusses California’s historic investment in afterschool and summer programs. Amidst the excitement...
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3.6KWhen relationships come first in schools, success follows
After more than a year of disrupted school for most of the country, we know that meaningful relationships are a powerful part...
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2.7KCalifornia juvenile reforms should proceed, despite probation officer lobbying efforts
As California’s juvenile probation caseloads have plummeted and annual costs of incarcerating a single youth skyrocketed to hundreds of thousands of dollars,...
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2.4KReturning to pre-pandemic activity raises Asian American fears of anti-Asian gun violence
Going on outdoor walks without a mask. Hopping on a Washington, D.C. Metro train without holding my breath. Meeting friends at restaurants...
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3.9KThe forgotten ones: Congress must extend pandemic aid to foster youth like me
Protections that foster youth like me fought for to safeguard us during the pandemic will disappear today, September 30, if our representatives...
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2.9KAs court upholds electroshock therapy at Massachusetts school, opponents continue decades-old fight to end it
For years now, I and other disability advocates have been fighting to end the use of electroshock treatment on youth with behavioral,...
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3.4KVulnerable youth need justice, and legal aid needs community
At ALWAYS, we serve human trafficking survivors and children and young adults affected by homelessness, abuse, and the foster care system. With...
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2.9KHow youth-serving organizations can teach civil discourse
Empowering youth to speak up about issues that matter to them is an important step toward self-awareness and community advocacy. This is...
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4.6KElevating equity and community voice beyond the pandemic
UPDATE: New video added — Over the last eighteen months, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to tectonic shifts in the ways our...
