Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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2.3KHow Your Program Can Build Opportunities for Career-ready Youth
In Philadelphia and in cities across the country, thousands of youth are engaged in purposeful internships, summer work programs and OST programs...
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2.2KHow to Replace College, Job Fair For High School Students
COVID-19 has greatly altered the lives of our youth. Few, if any, high students have attended school under the same circumstances as...
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6.8KI Took a ‘Mandated Reporter’ Training Course On Child Abuse
The course isn’t really training; it’s an exercise in propaganda and paranoia designed to encourage you to report based on little more...
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4.3KTinkering Afterschool Program Demonstrates Moving Beyond Binary of Adult- Versus Child-centered Education
Throughout our work in youth programs and critical educational spaces, we have witnessed how educators, mentors and facilitators committed to liberatory learning...
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2.5KA Former Foster Youth Is Contributing To National Initiative On Child Abuse, Neglect
An essential resource for professionals in the child welfare field are the voices of those with lived experience who are willing to...
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7.6KGirls of Color, Native Girls Have Been Sex Trafficked Since Colonization, Slavery
While awareness of sex trafficking has grown, too little attention is given to how this terrible violence impacts girls of color. In...
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3.0KHow Organizations Can Build Resilience Into Education And Career Pathways
Fear. Loss. Uncertainty. Isolation. Many fear that the pandemic will result in a new “Lost Generation.” The impact of COVID-19 is particularly...
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2.8KBehavioral Challenges Can Push Youth With Disabilities Into School-to-Prison Pipeline
Who are youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD)? The population of youth with IDD is vast. In 2018-19, the number of...
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4.1KMassachusetts Must Focus On Root Causes Of Gun Violence: Racial, Economic Disparity
The year 2020 will be remembered as a year of great upheaval in the United States, with so many lives and communities...
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2.6KThe Top 10 Ways To Help Kids Beat Stress In 2021
For many kids, this is all they know. Their entire lives have been defined by unrelenting, unprecedented times. Today’s kids are growing...
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1.6KBiden Must Integrate Developmental Relationships Into Training Plans For Young People
Making relationships a focus of federal policy is long overdue given that decades of research have shown that relationships are the critical...
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2.9KService Learning Makes Online Learning Meaningful and Engaging
During distance learning youth can feel disconnected from their educators, their peers and the content of what they are learning. Service learning...
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3.0KWe Need To Teach Consent Skills To Youth Early
Normative relationships are based on the assumption that individuals are capable of making decisions for themselves. When that individual is a minor...
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3.8KI’m a Former Foster Youth; How a Few Words From My Attorney Changed My Life
My name is Cristal and I am a former foster youth from Bakersfield, California. I spent about 11 years in the Kern...
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5.7KPositive Community Programs By Police Lead To Positive Relationships
SEVENTYFOUR/SHUTTERSTOCK Growing up in San Jose, California, I had some amazing experiences with law enforcement that I can say likely made a...
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1.8KOST Funders, Here’s How To Step Up: Invest In Organizations’ Capacity
DOTSHOCK/SHUTTERSTOCK (Part 2 of 2) In 2019, I wrote a chapter called “Rooted in Scarcity and Deficit: Time to Reconsider the Funding Process”...
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2.1KOST Providers, Pandemic Time Means Time To Build Relationships
As the world around us continues to feel like it’s spinning off its axis, one of the best things we can do...
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1.8KLean Into Youth Voice And Leadership To Help Our Youth Endure This Time
While schools begin the arduous task of tackling a new combination of academic summer and COVID learning slide, OST programs have an...
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1.7K8 Ways to Evolve Your OST Programs Online
This summer was filled with disappointments as each camp I had enrolled my daughter in — both day camp and overnight camp...
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4.2KA McDonald’s Cashier Showed Me Power Of Caring When I Was Brutally Attacked
What is your normal? As a 9-year-old, emptiness and depression became my normal moving forward. We escaped Children’s Protective Services to squat...
