Youth Today
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5.9KNewsLawmakers, federal investigators target teen facilities billed as therapeutic but accused of abuse
Separate investigations by the federal Government Accountability Office and Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general that were launched in 2021,...
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1.6KGrantsOregon K-8 environmental education and outdoor experience program grants
GRANT FOCUS: Environmental Education, Youth in Nature, School, OST, K-8, Oregon | Amount: $5,000 - $25,000 | Deadline: Mar. 11, 2022
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1.3KNewsFrom campus to Congress, colleges urged to end legacy boost
America's elite colleges are facing growing calls to end the decades-old tradition of giving an admissions boost to the children of alumni...
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1.5KFrom the BureausAmid push for free calls from lock-up, Connecticut’s statewide mandate will be the nation’s first
Pressured by Worth Rises and similar advocacy groups, the Federal Communication Commission last year imposed ceilings on the costs of interstate calls...
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1.8KNewsSandy Hook families settle for $73M with gun maker Remington
The families of nine victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting have agreed to a $73 million settlement of a lawsuit...
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1.5KNewsProtesters press Biden over gun violence promises on Parkland shooting anniversary
Four years after 17 students and others were gunned down at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, families and gun control...
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3.8KNewsA struggling Mississippi school district leans on afterschool programming
When the pandemic hit Jackson, Mississippi, the ongoing challenge to keep teenagers in high school got even harder. As the economic impacts...
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2.6KNewsYoung workers give unions new hope
After decades of decline, U.S. unions have a new reason for hope: younger workers. Workers in their 20s, and even in their...
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1.0KGrantsPediatric mental healthcare access expansion grants
GRANT FOCUS: Child Health, Healthcare Access, Pediatrics, Telehealth, Behavioral Health | Amount: Unspecified | Deadline: Apr. 5, 2022
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1.6KGrantsSocial justice, anti-bias and anti-racism education project grants
GRANT FOCUS: Education, Social Justice, Racism, Bias, Schools, Civic Engagement | Amount: Unspecified | Deadline: Apr. 1, 2022
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1.1KGrantsArizona, California, and Nevada child and health program grants
GRANT FOCUS: Child/Youth Welfare, Child/Youth Development, Health, Community, Arizona, California, Nevada | Amount: Unspecified | Deadline: Mar. 15, 2022
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2.1K► ReportsProspects for children in 2022: A global outlook
UNICEF takes a look at the year ahead and the key trends impacting children as the world attempts to recover from the...
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2.6K► NewsmakersMelanie Willingham-Jaggers named executive director of GLSEN
Melanie Willingham-Jaggers is the first person of color, first nonbinary person, and first Black woman to lead GLSEN in its 32-year history.
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6.7KNewsQ&A: UPenn Prof. Dorothy Roberts makes the case for abolishing the child welfare system
For Dorothy Roberts, a scholar of race and gender at the University of Pennsylvania law school, there is nothing well-meaning or compassionate...
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1.7KNewsAnalysis: A fraction of Houston area’s justice-involved youth accounted for the bulk of repeat-offenders
The analysis included 42,000 youth who were aged 12 through 16 at the time of that first contact with the system in...
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1.1KGrantsCommunity youth violence prevention strategies research grants
GRANT FOCUS: Community Violence, Youth Violence, Violence Prevention, Research, Safety, Youth Welfare | Amount: Up to $1,200,000 | Deadline: Apr. 18, 2022
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3.7K► PodcastsUpended by COVID-19, some nonprofits went online, on the road and otherwise innovated to aid homeless youth
As COVID-19 upended their usual protocols, some nonprofits that didn’t manage to alter their outreach strategies saw the tally of homeless youth...
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3.8K► PodcastsPodcast: How homeless youth services adapted to COVID
As COVID-19 upended their usual protocols, some nonprofits saw the tally of homeless youth they served plummet. But for other organizations across...
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1.5KGrantsChildren’s healthcare program outreach and enrollment grants
GRANT FOCUS: Child Health, Low-Income Children, Healthcare Access, Children in Poverty, Medicaid, CHIP | Amount: Up to $1,500,000 | Deadline: Mar. 28,...
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4.4KFrom the BureausDisabilities sometimes go undiagnosed in homeless students targeted by new federal education funds, experts say
The $800 million that the American Rescue Plan earmarked for homeless students is the largest such federal expenditure in a decade, with...
