Youth Today
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2.6KNewsMega dance company bred culture of sex, silence, dancers say
Every year, one of the world's leading dance competition companies sells the dream of Hollywood fame to hundreds of thousands of ambitious...
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3.0K► NewsmakersEric Morrison-Smith named executive director of the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color
Eric Morrison-Smith is the new executive director of the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color, succeeding Marc Philpart, who is leaving...
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1.3KGrantsEarly childhood mental health program grants
GRANT FOCUS: Child Health/Welfare, Child Mental Health, Early Childhood, SED, Child Development | Amount: Up to $500,000 | Deadline: May 17, 2022
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1.7KNewsJuvenile justice agency agrees to reform main prison
The South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice announced Thursday that it will reform its beleaguered central prison for youths under a settlement...
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3.1KNewsYouth activists, firearms trainers and police oppose unlicensed gun laws in Georgia and other states
On April 12, Georgia became the 22nd state allowing unlicensed gun-owners to carry a concealed weapon, one in a spate of so-called...
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4.9K► NewsmakersAmy Freitag to be the new president of The New York Community Trust
The New York Community Trust recently announced that Amy Freitag will be its next president after an eight-month national search, succeeding 32-year...
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2.6KNewsFor fledgling adults with disabilities, paperwork sometimes disrupts SSI payments
Each month, more than a million low-income U.S. children with disabilities receive Supplemental Security Income that helps them and their families cover...
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4.4K► Nonprofit ToolboxHow to cultivate transformational leadership at a nonprofit
Effective leadership is often easier said than done. For a long time, many leaders prioritized a more transactional leadership approach with their...
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2.3K► ReportsStudy: Drug use less common, more deadly among teens during pandemic
Published today in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), Trends in Drug Overdose Deaths Among US Adolescents, January 2010 to June...
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1.9KNewsJuvenile lifer seeks reprieve amid broader push for leniency
As a leader of a violent gang and just shy of 18, Briones drove the getaway car in a robbery turned deadly...
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2.0KNewsTrans kids fear Alabama laws targeting medicine, bathrooms
Alabama is among multiple states with Republican-controlled legislatures that have advanced bills not only to block medical treatment but to ban transgender...
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1.6KNewsTask force finds inconsistencies in police story of detained teen’s death
A community task force reviewing the death of a Black teenager who was restrained for more than 30 minutes at a Kansas...
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4.3KNewsNew Mexico lags in mandated foster care reforms
Two years after New Mexico agreed to overhaul its foster care system in response to a lawsuit claiming it systematically re-traumatizes children...
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1.5KGrantsDisabled youth services personnel preparation program grants
GRANT FOCUS: Disabled Children/Youth, Special Education, Child Development, Workforce Development | Amount: $2,000,000 | Deadline: May 16, 2022
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3.1KNewsQ&A: Rep. Rosa DeLauro on the fight for afterschool funding and the child tax credit
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, a Democrat from Connecticut and the chair of the House Appropriations Committee, has long been hailed as an afterschool...
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1.2KGrantsInnovative STEM education project grants
GRANT FOCUS: STEM, Education, PreK-12, Education Innovation, Educator Support | Amount: $2,000 - $7,500 | Deadline: May 13, 2022 (letters of intent)
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1.3KGrantsMidwest early childhood health program grants
GRANT FOCUS: Child Health, Early Childhood, Child Development, Family Support, Midwest | Amount: Up to $25,000 | Deadline: Apr. 29, 2022
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1.8KNewsFirst pope, now US churches face boarding-school reckoning
As Native Americans cautiously welcome Pope Francis' historic apology for abuses at Catholic-run boarding schools for Indigenous children in Canada, U.S. churches...
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1.2KGrantsSTEM education equity advancement program grants
GRANT FOCUS: Education, STEM, Racial Equity, Gender Equity, Education Equity | Amount: Unspecified | Deadline: May 10, 2022
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2.7KNewsQ&A: From Louisiana prisoner to Louisiana State University graduate
Within months of his release from a lifetime imprisonment sentence in Louisiana's 18,000-acre prison in Angola, La., Andrew Hundley, then 34, enrolled...
