Youth Today
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2.5KNewsSouth Dakota YWCA ‘Breakaway’ Provides Services to Youth, Women
A jumble of multicolored wires spilled out of the open side of a computer as Leilani Liggins, 6, dressed in a pink...
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1.5KGrantsFamily and Children’s Healthcare, Housing, Hunger and Education Program Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Child/Youth Health, Child/Youth Welfare, Housing, Hunger, Education | Amount: Unspecified | Deadline: July 1, 2019
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2.3KGrantsHomeless and Runaway Youth Services Program Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Homeless Youth, Runaway Youth, Street Youth, Youth Welfare, Safety | Amount: $90,000 - $150,000 | Deadline: July 1, 2019
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3.9KNewsSocial Workers, Navigators Help Mississippi Foster Youth Transition To College
By the time she turned 6, Jessica Reese had been sexually abused repeatedly. Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services took Reese and...
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2.4KOpinionNew York Successfully Preventing Gun Violence By Working With Youth, Their Community
Neighborhood conditions like exposure to violence are unacceptable, and undoubtedly create numerous negative outcomes. However, there are additional factors that consistently show...
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1.6KGrantsNM Youth Environmental Education, Conservation and Job/Career Training Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Environmental Education, Youth Development, Job/Career Training | Amount: $16,000 - $700,000 | Deadline: July 15, 2019
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1.8KGrantsGrants for Improving Lives of Boys and Young Men of Color
GRANT FOCUS: Minority Youth, Minority Boys/Men, Youth Welfare/Development, Institutional Racism | Amount: Up to $150,000 | Deadline: June 6, 2019
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4.4KOpinionThe Self-sufficiency of Youth in Care Can Hurt Them in College
Students who have experienced foster care or homelessness are often doing it all: managing complicated and ever-changing family situations, carrying out adult-level...
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1.6KGrantsNYC Community Children’s Healthy Food Access Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Child/Youth Health, Food Access, Nutrition, Child/Youth Development | Amount: $15,000 - $50,000 | Deadline: May 31, 2019
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5.0KOpinionACEs Research Could Improve College Completion Rates for Foster Care Youth
For the past 13 years I have had the privilege of working with hundreds of students who enroll at our university. It...
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3.2K► ReportsToxic Stress and Children’s Outcomes
The Economic Policy Institute shows how toxic stress in a child's life, which is disproportionately experienced by African American children, can disrupt...
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3.6KOpinionFederal Legislation Would Take Last Brake Off Foster Care Steamroller
Remember all those celebrations when the vastly overhyped Family First Prevention Services Act made it into law? Even some of those who...
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4.7KOpinionResistance to Restorative Justice: Understanding, Working Through Staff Skepticism
When you are trying to make the shift to a restorative justice mindset, having even a few teachers, support personnel or administrators...
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5.2KNewsSTEM Programs for Middle Schoolers Go to the Library
When a “mobile science lab” shows up after school at a branch library in Hartford, Conn., kids cluster around it. They look...
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1.6KGrantsCommunity-Based Child Maltreatment Prevention Center Program Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Child/Youth Health, Child/Youth Welfare, Child Maltreatment, Child Abuse/Neglect, Community | Amount: $1,200,000 - $1,400,000 | Deadline: June 18, 2019
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Education, Library and Healthcare Support Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Education, Libraries, Higher Education, Health, Healthcare | Amount: $50,000 - $100,000 | Deadline: May 31, 2019
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Community Youth Drug Abuse Prevention/Reduction Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Drugs, Drug/Substance Abuse, Youth Drug Abuse, Youth Health/Welfare, Community | Amount: Up to $125,000 | Deadline: July 8, 2019
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2.9KFrom the BureausAdvocates Hope NY Court Ruling on Warrants for Foster Youth Leads to Reform
Christina Young remembers the day the cops came for her at school. She was fifteen years old — a sophomore at Murry...
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1.7KGrantsCO Child/Youth Physical Activity Program Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Physical Activity, Child/Youth Health, Child/Youth Development, OST | Amount: Unspecified | Deadline: June 15, 2019 or Oct. 15, 2019
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1.5KGrantsCommunity Bike Park and Track Project Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Community Development, Child/Youth Health, Physical Activity | Amount: Up to $10,000 | Deadline: July 26, 2019 (LOI)
