All posts tagged "Advocacy"

Newsmakers | July-August 2014

Jonathan P. Raymond - Steven Maze Rothstein - Samuel Halperin - Ted Mitchell - John C. Lechleiter - Stacey Childress

Supporting and Caring for Our Gender-Expansive Youth

Local, National Groups Giving Parents Tools to Help Children with Addictions

CUMMING, Ga. — More than three years ago, Sherry Ajluni got a call no mother would ever want to receive. Her 21-year-old...

Far Rockaway Youth Group For the Youth, Run By the Youth

NEW YORK — When Milan Taylor read reports in New York City tabloids that a local elementary school, Far Rockaway’s P.S. 106, had...

Since Sandy Hook, Tracking Mental Health Changes Nationwide

NEWTOWN, Conn., — Nearly one year after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the town has struggled to reclaim its identity...

National Standards for the Care of Youth Charged with Status Offenses

Youth Civic Development & Education

Love Evident in Top Dropout Prevention Programs

The New Directions Alternative Education Center in Manassas, Va. won a 2013 National Dropout Prevention Network award for their work. L-R: Principal...

Youth Organizations Educate Public About Affordable Care Act

ATLANTA — People trickled into the multipurpose room at Atlanta’s East Lake YMCA on a Wednesday night, some with children in tow....

In New Book, Former Foster Parent Investigates the American Foster Care System

    NEW YORK — Demetrius Johnson was placed into foster care when he was only a few months old. Over the...

A Trans-teen’s Story: Respecting the Pronoun

When I was born, the doctor dictated the way I would live the rest of my life simply by proclaiming “It’s a...

Trans Freedom Fighters Help Today’s Trans Teens

Photo by Robert Stolarick In the late 1990s when Carl Siciliano worked at Safe Space, an organization that helped homeless teens, he...

Storyteller Network Gives Faces, Voices to Poverty

                  Screenshot of Barbara of Lancaster, Pa., sharing her experience with SNAP in a video On...

Summit Rallies Young People to Become Juvenile Justice Advocates

During a session on disproportionate minority contact, youth audience members participate in a mock justice system processing activity facilitated by Tshaka Barrows...

Time to Have a Conversation About Race

Can we have an open, honest discussion about race? I’m not making a request to have such a conversation, what I am...

Grants Awarded: June – July 2013

  Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gatesfoundation.org/ (206) 709-3100 Seattle, WA Grants awarded to: Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) –...

Top Headlines 7/12

Juvenile Justice Statewide coalition urges New York to raise the age of criminal responsibility. Texas legislature approves 40 year minimum sentences for...