Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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4.1KTexting is Taxing on Adolescent Brains: What Can Adults Do to Help?
We all know a teenager who is incessantly texting. Is it innocuous or harmful? While it might be impossible to track the...
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2.1KHigh Court’s Recent Juvenile Lifer Ruling is Barbaric
The U.S. Supreme Court last month affirmed that lifetime imprisonment without the possibility of parole is just punishment for Brett Jones, who...
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1.6KEmbracing Change: A Post-Pandemic Nonprofit Sector
It is almost unfathomable that just a little over a year ago nonprofits were operating in a "world-as-we-knew it" mentality. The onset of...
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4.3KFormer Foster Youth Eligible for American Rescue Plan Tax Credits
The passage of the American Rescue Plan has changed that -- at least for one year. Young adults who are working but...
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2.2KLawyers for Juveniles Trained in Racial Justice Trials
In my 15 years of working with youth who cycle through the criminal justice system — initially as a social worker and,...
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2.2KAssault-style Rifles, Their Bullets Many Times More Dangerous Than Original Militia
In 1789, when the Second Amendment was passed by Congress, the average number of musket balls that could be fired by a...
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2.3KTop 10 Tips to Deepen Social-Emotional Learning in Your Virtual After-School Program and Align it to the School Day
With fewer resources and increased constraints, program facilitators and educators are now tasked with rising to the occasion of providing high-quality experiences...
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1.9KAnalysts Propose Racial Equity in Youth Probation
Structural racism drives harsher treatment of Black youth, who are more likely than white youth to be arrested, incarcerated, placed on probation...
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5.2KWe Are Terrified Police in Our Schools Will Harm Us
LEV RADIN/SHUTTERSTOCK Every day, I walk into school greeted with silencing stares from armed police officers. They’re not facing the windows or...
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2.2KMarginalized Youth Need Real Change in Schools, Courts, Other Systems
Black and brown students are caught in a system that does not educate or rehabilitate them. We punish them for their failure...
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3.6KASFA’s Timelines Are Horrible For Children But Another Part Of The Law Is Even Worse
“ASFA has been responsible for the massive destruction of black and brown families. More than 2 million children’s parents’ rights have been...
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2.9KRestorative Justice Is Used to Legitimize Oppressive Systems
The practices and approaches the Western world today refers to as “restorative justice” have roots in indigenous, including indigenous African, peacemaking and...
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1.8KThree Relationships Kids Need During Pandemic And Into Recovery
This time last year, I was in New Orleans for a child and youth well-being summit. Mardi Gras was over and leaders...
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1.9KTime For Marginalized Communities to Do Their Own Talking, Privileged to Step Back
March on Washington, August 1963, 250,000 people. Women’s March, January 2017, 7 million people, worldwide. March for Our Lives, March 2018, 2...
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2.5KHow Human Connections Can Save Our Youth
A crisis is when a non-common negative occurrence increases in trend and frequency. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic there seems...
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5.0KBelieve in Yourself, Not the Statistics
I was in foster care for 14 years. I was in 10 different foster homes and two different group homes. I represent...
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3.2KWhen the Product Is Poor People’s Kids, It’s Always a Bull Market
A new study from the Children’s Bureau in the federal Department of Health and Human Services reveals some shocking findings. It turns...
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2.4KGet Youth Involved in Evaluation of Your Program To Shift Power, Build Their Skills
Youth Participatory Evaluation (YPE) is the involvement of young people in monitoring and evaluation practices and processes, including planning, data collection, analysis...
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2.6KIndependent Living Coordinators Are Lifeline For Current, Former Youth in Foster Care During Pandemic
Ever heard of a state or county “independent living coordinator?” I have and I’m fascinated by the near-mythical role they play as they...
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2.1KLeverage Power of Remote Internships With These Tips
In 2013, while I was in college at the University of Arizona based in Tucson, I had the opportunity to participate in...
