Leicester, England—President George Bush’s enthusiasm for enlisting faith groups to deliver more government-funded human services is spreading across the...
Last year at this time, opinions about proposed juvenile justice legislation were splashed across newspapers, flashed on television screens and hotly debated...
By Liesel Haskell, 17 My alarm clock is blaring – it’s 5:30 a.m. I jump out of bed and head for the...
By Richard Kwon, 17 After a long night of working on an essay, I woke up late the next day and had...
The national teen birth rate hit a record low in 1999, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....
Call it divine retribution for kids, or at least 1,028 of them. Chicago’s Uhlich Children’s Home got 12- to 19-year-olds together to...
On the same day the Federal Trade Commission settled its first case under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, the Center for...
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) more than doubled its list of model substance abuse prevention programs last month...
New Jersey Town Loses Tolerance – After 50 suspensions and police files created in six weeks for children – mostly between kindergarten...
Welcome to the voice mail system of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Perversion Prevention. Press x1 for grantmaking guidelines for programs...
Art is subversive. It has a history of undermining the status quo and of...
A crisis — such as the COVID-19 global pandemic — has a way of...
For most of us in this country the idea of social distancing is a...
This coming January, I plan to celebrate 20 years sober. I got clean as...
As a longtime advocate for children, youth and families in New Mexico, I wholeheartedly...
For decades, we have repeated and recapitulated: Our nation’s foster care system is broken....
Last week, our executive editor suggested I watch a film called “Crip Camp” on...
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A new report by the Urban Institute describes how federal jobs programs could be...
What started out as an idea scrawled on a fast food napkin 10 years...
Social distancing has disrupted social services of all kinds, but nowhere are the changes...
Frejoel Munoz couldn’t stop smiling as he read the email. “It was such a...
This time of year usually marks year-end celebrations and summer preparations for youth. But...
As coronavirus continues to disrupt daily life, anti-gun violence advocates worry the communities hit...
“You could say I’m an expert at being stuck at home,” said Jacob Frazier,...
A new report from the Wallace Foundation draws on the data and experience of...
New modelling research published in The Lancet indicates a worrying surge in maternal and...
A new report from UNICEF takes a comprehensive look at the global internal displacement...
The Department of Education releases the latest results from the Nation's Report Card showing...
The Urban Institute uses data from its Health Reform Monitoring Survey conducted between March...
Urban Institute researchers examine and assess the challenges both school districts and families face...
The Trevor Project brings together research to highlight the ways in which LGBTQ youth...
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In this past year as a student activist for gun safety, I’ve learned that...
Going through the foster care system isn’t easy, but what happens to youth as...
I live in a state of privilege. Wexford, Pa., and surrounding affluent suburbs are...
Like most children, I never realized the tremendous impact my father’s values and culture...
Dayonn Davis was 15 when he committed a crime that would get him tried...
The Youth Today/InsideOUT Writers series these past two years has been a critical reflection...
I got released from the system about five years ago now, and my life...
Several years ago when Pasi Sahlberg was a visiting professor of practice at Harvard,...
“Social and Emotional Learning in Out-of-School Time: Foundations and Futures” is the second volume...
“Everyday Desistance: The Transition to Adulthood Among Formerly Incarcerated Youth” sheds a critical light...
“The Growing Out-of-School Time Field: Past, Present, and Future” is, above all else, an...
Anthropologist Tina Lee immersed herself in the exotic culture of a child welfare agency,...
Liza Jessie Peterson’s “All Day” is a moving account of her career working with...
“Though media and advocacy efforts have largely focused on the extreme and intolerable abuse...
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