Youth Today
Print Edition Archives 2012-2018
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1.6KTeens Hacking Their Way to Solutions
A group of 16-to 23-year-olds divided into five teams to create socially conscious technology — one group's smartphone app involved sexual harassment,...
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2.1KGood Storytelling Raises Money, Attracts Volunteers
Storytelling makes a difference for a youth organization, building capacity by going beyond data or too-brief, one-dimensional stories to engage audience’s emotions.
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2.9KResponding to Youth Who Have Depression or Suicidal Thoughts
In between wilderness hikes and zip lining, teens attending the weekend Camp Mariposa® addiction prevention and mentoring program learn to recognize signs...
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1.1KDevelop a Plan to Help Your Staff Perform Their Best
In 2009, Michael Johnson was hired to run the Boys & Girls Club of Dane County in Wisconsin.
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1.7KMaking Sense of Earned Income Opportunities
When Urban Ventures launched CityKid Java nearly 15 years ago in Minneapolis, the community development nonprofit was just hoping to generate some...
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2.1KQ&A: The Transgender Teen — A Handbook for Parents and Professionals Supporting Transgender and Non-binary Teens
This Q&A with Lisa Kenney was conducted by Managing Editor Rachel Alterman Wallack. It has been condensed and edited.
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1.8KAll I Really Need to Know About Social Work I Learned in Clubhouse
One of my first jobs in human services was at a Clubhouse, a local community center that provides individuals diagnosed with serious...
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1.6KCompassion Fatigue: What Happens When Helpers Need Help?
A friend of mine is a mental health and substance use disorder counselor for youth. Let’s call her Lisa. Lisa has a...
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4.0KFamily Focused: Opposite of ‘Scared Straight,’ Intervention Helps Youth Connect and Feel Understood
“I thought my life was coming to an end. Oh my God, he’s a good kid,” said Geselle Colón, recounting the story...
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How We Can Build Better Career Pathways for America’s Youth
While the U.S. is on track to have one of its best years for job growth in 2016 since the Great Recession,...
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1.8KA Close Look at Quality: How to Make Your Program Better with Quality Standards
What if a tool existed to make your after-school or summer youth program better? Would you get it and read the instructions?
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1.3KA Day in the Life of a U.S. Teen: Diego Holguin
Diego Holguin is a 17-year-old high school senior who is very active in school.
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1.5KFocus on Poverty
It’s been 50 years since the idealism of Robert F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administration’s War on Poverty placed economic injustice...
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3.0KYou Don’t Have the Right to Talk Dirty to a Child
We all know the horror stories of predators luring children online to meet in person. Most states have laws that criminalize luring,...
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2.7KWhere Are All the Male Mentors?
By nearly every measure, youth mentoring programs work.
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2.3KFinancial Literacy: Helping Kids Know What to Do About Money
By his own description Ted Gonder drifted through life as a teenager, aimless and “mediocre.”
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1.4KAdvocating for Social Security is Advocating for Youth
The national focus on Social Security’s benefits for seniors obscures its role as one of the largest antipoverty programs for children.
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2.1KService Programs Try to Launch Opportunity Youth into Careers, College
At Green City Force, transparency starts from day one for the young adults who are considering the environmental service program after hitting...
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3.5KCould You Survive One Month Living in Poverty? A Simulation for Youth Workers and Educators
At the National Youth-At-Risk Conference held in Savannah, Georgia, last spring, 82 youth workers and educators signed up to see if they...
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2.9KConnecting, Integrating STEM and Social Emotional Learning
At a recent national Out of School Time (OST) conference I attended, one participant proudly shared how her program was working on...
