Youth Today
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2.0KGrantsYouth Grief and Bereavement Services Program Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Child/Youth Welfare, Child/Youth Mental Health, Grief/Bereavement, Therapy, Counseling, Mentoring | Amount: Up to $100,000 | Deadline: Mar. 9, 2020; July...
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1.5KGrantsCommunity Youth Substance Abuse Prevention Program Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Youth Welfare, Drugs, Substance Abuse, Community | Amount: Up to $125,000 | Deadline: Apr. 3, 2020
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2.3KOpinionBeing a Kin Caregiver Is More Complicated Than Just Helping Family
What comes to mind when you hear the term foster care? More than likely, it is not the placement of children with...
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MD Aquatic Environment Education Project Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Environmental Education, Education, Civic Engagement, Maryland | Amount: Up to $4,000 | Deadline: June 30, 2020
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1.7KGrantsJuvenile Indigent Defense Enhancement Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Juvenile Justice, Disadvantaged Youth, Youth in Poverty | Amount: Up to $437,500 | Deadline: Apr. 6, 2020
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3.1KNewsHead of Florida Center That Helps Girls ‘in Trouble’ Stepping Down
She’s credited with being a “visionary,” “a role model” and a literal life-saver for some of the most vulnerable girls and young...
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2.1KNewsBoy Scouts Bankruptcy Dismaying To Some In Youth Development
When Boy Scouts of America announced on Tuesday that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, youth development professionals had various responses....
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4.8K► ReportsThe State Index on Youth Homelessness
True Colors United looks at 61 metrics in all 50 states to provide an overview of the challenges and barriers homeless youth...
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6.0KNewsHigh Staff Turnover Affects Kids in After-school Programs
Many out-of-school time programs experience frequent staff turnover, to the chagrin of leaders in the field. Some estimates put the turnover rate...
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3.2KNewsChange in Washington Law Helps Parents With Their Teens’ Mental Health Needs
For about three months, Karen Kelly would drive around Enumclaw, Wash., after midnight looking for her 13-year-old daughter, Hollie. She carried Hollie’s...
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13.6KOpinionWhat’s Typical About Youth Sexuality, What’s Not, How To Know The Difference
When it comes to child development we have tons of information about how kids’ social, emotional, physical, spiritual and intellectual abilities grow...
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1.9KGrantsNational Gang Violence Prevention and Response Initiative Grant
GRANT FOCUS: Gangs, Youth Violence, Youth Welfare, Safety, At-Risk Youth, Youth in Poverty | Amount: Up to $850,000 | Deadline: Mar. 23,...
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2.1KNewsNeoliberal Systems Undermine Ability to Serve Youth Of Color After School: Author
Leah Davis remembers the first brochure she saw for the after-school and college prep program Educational Excellence.
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1.4KGrantsInnovative K-12 Education Practices Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Education, K-12, Education Innovation, Educator Support | Amount: Up to $35,000 | Deadline: Mar. 15, 2020 (LOI)
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3.2KOpinionNew Mexican Indigenous Foster Youth May Have Different Definition of Success
“You just don’t get it! When I emancipate I don’t want to move away and go off to college. I’m going back...
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2.0K► ReportsSuicidality Disparities by Sexual Identity Persist from Adolescence into Young Adulthood
The Trevor Project tracks rates of suicidality among LGB youth after turning 18, showing that the stark suicide disparity between straight and...
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6.0KNewsMentoring Foster Youth Is High-impact, Low-cost But Rare, Institute Says
Born to a prostitute with a drug problem, April (a pseudonym for her privacy) was removed from her home about two decades...
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4.5KNewsTrump Budget Would Again Ax After-school Programs Despite Strong Congressional Support
Two months after Congress approved $1.25 billion for after-school funding, the White House has again called for a complete kill-off of the...
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2.7KNewsCarlsbad Center Partnering With Eddy County CASA to Serve More Young People
It was a bleak time for many foster youth and their families in need when Kids’ Safehouse ceased operations in January 2015,...
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4.2KNewsCYFD Forging Ahead With Native American Court, Kinship Care
It’s nearing the close of normal business hours on a Wednesday afternoon at the Albuquerque, N.M., offices of the Children, Youth and...
