Teen girls taking a chance climbing a telephone pole belayed by their friends, a 14-year-old learning to ride a bike, children visiting...
“Tell me about a time you made a mistake.”
To kick off its third year, ServiceWorks – a youth development program from AmeriCorps, the Citi Foundation and Points of Light –...
High school sophomores and juniors were challenged to apply the communication, project management and community mapping skills they’d learned in ServiceWorks to...
When youth and young adults are provided a platform that empowers them to be changemakers within their community, they begin to realize...
Young people commit — in writing — to a grade they will earn for each class. The better they perform, the higher...
Hunger in America is not so much a lack of access to food; it’s a lack of access to nutrition. School-based programs...
As we gear up for summer programming, camp directors and staff who attended the American Camp Association conference in Atlanta last week...
Youth Today asked attendees of the National Black Child Development Institute’s annual conference earlier this year about the a recent time they...
The room was silent. Twelve probation officers sat silently in a circle. Some glared at the floor, some looked at the ceiling....
How can we expect young people who are worried about where they will sleep that night, where their next meal will come...
Children who participate in Doc Wayne’s Chalk Talk program are most often survivors of complex trauma. According to the National Alliance on...
As part of National Substance Abuse Prevention Month, peer educators and adult supporters at GUIDE in Georgia speak up about the impact...
Our 100 Peace Builder teens’ reach of 4,000 of their peers and some adults through connection circles taught me that “each one...
Who better to describe what it’s like growing up in San Francisco’s so-called underbelly than the young people who live there?
Mason faces underlying and persistent tribulation most of his peers don’t: his citizenship status and the legal, financial and psychological barriers that...