Youth Today
All posts tagged "COVID-19"
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1.0KNewsMesilla Valley CASA Helping Youth Past CYFD Age Cutoff
In April, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the state Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) extended its foster care services...
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1.8KNewsState Outreach Helping Aged-out Foster Youth Amid Anxiety About Lost Oil Field Jobs
Jade Collins really needs her driver’s license to get to her doctor’s appointments. She was 29 weeks pregnant in late May and...
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2.9KNewsPandemic Accelerated Rollout of Extended Foster Care ‘in Really Good Way’
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) had been working for over a year toward launching...
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1.7KNewsNM Schools Providing Academic Coaches, School Packets, Food to Struggling Students
The COVID-19 pandemic and the shift to online learning have exposed a number of unexpected and difficult educational achievement gaps for New...
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1.8KGuest Opinion EssayHow Are Youth With Disabilities Spending Their Money During COVID-19?
It seems like every day experts have new opinions on how the economy is being affected by COVID-19. Today alone, I’ve read...
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1.7KGuest Opinion EssayWe Need to Take Care of Each Other After COVID-19 Too
The Office of Neighborhood Safety (ONS) in Richmond, Calif., is a non-law enforcement governmental agency whose sole purpose is to reduce gun...
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3.0KNewsYouthWorks in Massachusetts Reimagines Summer Youth Employment
This summer, teenagers in Massachusetts may be conducting oral history interviews about the impact of COVID-19 in their community. They may be...
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2.1KGuest Opinion EssayWhere Are Young People With Disabilities Getting Their News About COVID-19?
Anyone who has worked in a newsroom knows that the way people consume news has changed dramatically over the past decades. When...
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2.6KGuest Opinion EssayNew York State Must Pause Aging Out From Foster System During COVID-19
As a young adult formerly in foster care, I know that people my age are confronted with a tough reality when their...
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2.8KGuest Opinion EssayHow Can Front-liners Help Youth With Disabilities?
As states begin to slowly reopen from lockdown, we find ourselves feeling a mixture of caution and hope. For the past few...
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1.3KGuest Opinion EssayWhy the Party Is On For Emerging Adults, Even in Pandemic
Be it with outrage or eye-rolling, most of us were confounded by the spectacle of college students indulging in spring break rituals...
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2.6KGuest Opinion EssayCOVID-19 Making Life Harder For Some Transgender, Nonbinary Youth
Times are unsettling for all of us these days. While it feels like in many ways we are experiencing this pandemic all...
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2.1KGuest Opinion EssayGeorge Floyd’s Death Is Creating the American Spring
In the midst of me gathering information and doing interviews for this column this past week, a horrific event took place in...
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1.9KNewsRural Quincy, Wash., Teens Respond To Pandemic, Help Adults With Digital Access
Having young people teach digital skills to adults seems like a no-brainer. After all, how many adults have gotten a teenager to...
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1.8KNewsNewly Updated Technology Helps CYFD Stay in Touch
When Brian Blalock entered his new job as cabinet secretary at the Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) approximately a year and...
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1.5KNewsFor New Mexican, Tribal Leaders, It’s ‘All Hands on Deck’ in 2 Counties
Government officials and public health professionals say there’s no sugar-coating it: The coronavirus outbreak that’s done a number on the Gallup area...
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2.4KNewsCOVID-19 Challenges Don’t Stop Carlsbad Transitional Housing Program
“On call” means something different these days for Johnnie Bradford. As the longtime housing supervisor for Carlsbad Transitional Housing, she has always...
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1.6KNewsLas Cruces Caseworker Helping Youth Who Have Aged Out of Care Plus the System-involved
Transitioning out of juvenile justice is already laborious for many young people. It’s infinitely more difficult during a global pandemic. “They’re literally...
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2.0KNewsNew Mexico Tribal, State Leaders Pulling Together Against Pandemic
The arrival of the coronavirus in New Mexico in mid-March toppled the lives of the state’s foster and at-risk youth, who were...
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1.9KNewsLeaders Say Youth Organizations Have Role During Protests
As protests erupt in cities across the nation following George Floyd’s death in police custody, youth-serving agencies appear to have a similar...
