Youth Today
From the Field
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1.8KGrief Support for Children and Teens: Play, Share, Mourn
Teen girls taking a chance climbing a telephone pole belayed by their friends, a 14-year-old learning to ride a bike, children visiting...
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3.2KPassion and Community: How Justice-involved Youth Are Helping Peers Outside Their Walls
“Tell me about a time you made a mistake.”
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2.1KYouth Helping Youth: ServiceWorks VISTAs Reflect on 9/11 and Serving Their Generation
To kick off its third year, ServiceWorks – a youth development program from AmeriCorps, the Citi Foundation and Points of Light –...
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2.5KIgniting a Passion: Newark Youth Take On Gun Violence
High school sophomores and juniors were challenged to apply the communication, project management and community mapping skills they’d learned in ServiceWorks to...
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1.7KConnecting with the Disconnected: Youth Can Be Empowered Through Volunteering and Service
When youth and young adults are provided a platform that empowers them to be changemakers within their community, they begin to realize...
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1.4KEarn to Learn: A Teen’s Job Is to Do Well in School
Young people commit — in writing — to a grade they will earn for each class. The better they perform, the higher...
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2.1KPartnering with Schools Reduces Hunger Among School Kids and Families
Hunger in America is not so much a lack of access to food; it’s a lack of access to nutrition. School-based programs...
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4.7KWhat Lessons Have You Learned From the Kids You Work With?
As we gear up for summer programming, camp directors and staff who attended the American Camp Association conference in Atlanta last week...
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2.4KAsk a Youth Worker: When Was the Last Time You Felt Like You Made a Difference?
Youth Today asked attendees of the National Black Child Development Institute’s annual conference earlier this year about the a recent time they...
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2.2KArtistic Collaboration: Transforming Youth and Youth Justice by Integrating Arts
The room was silent. Twelve probation officers sat silently in a circle. Some glared at the floor, some looked at the ceiling....
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1.9KUnaccompanied No More: Family Mediation and Preservation First
How can we expect young people who are worried about where they will sleep that night, where their next meal will come...
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4.7KUniting Sport and Therapy on One Field
Children who participate in Doc Wayne’s Chalk Talk program are most often survivors of complex trauma. According to the National Alliance on...
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4.1KYouth Impact: High School Students Lead Substance Abuse Prevention Efforts
As part of National Substance Abuse Prevention Month, peer educators and adult supporters at GUIDE in Georgia speak up about the impact...
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2.2KUsing Online App to Implement Each One Teach One
Our 100 Peace Builder teens’ reach of 4,000 of their peers and some adults through connection circles taught me that “each one...
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2.8KYouth Document Their Communities Through Photo Essays
Who better to describe what it’s like growing up in San Francisco’s so-called underbelly than the young people who live there?
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2.5KFinding Hope: Shepherding Un(der) Documented Students to a Thriving Life After High School
Mason faces underlying and persistent tribulation most of his peers don’t: his citizenship status and the legal, financial and psychological barriers that...
