Author and reporter Maia Szalavitz, who writes about substance use and related issues recently spoke with Youth Today and JJIE about her...
At the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta, Michael Gandy, now 28, draws from personal experience as a young black teen.
At the National Youth-At-Risk Conference held in Savannah, Georgia, last spring, 82 youth workers and educators signed up to see if they...
Dayshen McKenzie, 16, collapsed and died of an apparent asthma attack after he and a group of mostly black friends were chased...
The Alcohol and Other Drug Education and Assistance program at Kennesaw State University (north of Atlanta) is on a prevention mission: to...
Naloxone, a medicine used to stop the effects of an opioid overdose, can be easily applied via a squirt through the nose...
The rumors were out a few days ago that Officer Caesar Goodson had been acquitted on murder and other charges in the...
Less than 48 hours after the Caesar Goodman verdict left many in Baltimore longing for justice, the city was dealt another blow...
This spring, Youth Today convened a group of Out-of-School Time (OST) thought leaders concurrent with the American Educational Research Association annual conference...
"Before, I perceived solitary confinement as just another cruel sanction of the government.
Hundreds of L.A. children are sexually exploited every year. Experts in the field say it's not surprising that 70 percent of them...
The nonprofit Youth Communication in Manhattan shares the voices of youth in foster care through Represent magazine, used as an educational tool...
Jessica Chandler spent her teenage years in foster care in California after her parents divorced and her mother struggled with mental illness....
“Aging out is not safe. Aging out leaves kids with sort of a lifetime of potential dire outcomes and loneliness," says Susan...
You can hear the frustration — and need — in each of their voices as this group of young adults, who grew...
Researchers, academics, practitioners and current and former foster youth came together to discuss transitioning out of the foster care system and some...
From loving mentors to abusive foster parents and indifferent social workers, a group of New Yorkers talk openly about surviving foster care...
"If we can get these kids to believe, and if we can get these parents on board to believe, we can make...
"They're kids. They need a home; they need to be loved," says Catherine Harm, a social worker and prospective foster parent. Harm...
DeAngelo Cortijo remembers the fear he felt as a young boy on the day his mother was lifted unconscious into an ambulance....