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All posts tagged "after school"
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2.0KNewsColorado AeroLab Thinks Four-day School Week Can Create Rural Jobs
In northern Colorado’s ski country, a rural area heavily reliant on tourism, some schools operate only four days a week. The education...
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4.2KNewsWashington ‘State-raised’ Inmates From Foster Care Urge Better Youth Support
Inevitable. That’s how winding up in prison felt for a group of former foster youth — now adults who are imprisoned at...
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1.5KGrantsUnderserved Middle School Student Afterschool and OST Program Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Education, Afterschool, OST, Youth Development, Middle School, Underserved Youth | Amount: $15,000 - $100,000 | Deadline: Jan. 24, 2020
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3.3KNewsPower of Youth Challenge Fuels Solutions Like College Prep, Blue Lollipops
When Isaac Espinal was in the eighth grade in Fort Worth, Texas, he compared his local public school with a nearby private...
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8.4KBook ReviewsBook Makes Strong Case For Free Play: Will After-school Field Take Note?
Several years ago when Pasi Sahlberg was a visiting professor of practice at Harvard, he took his young son to visit a...
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1.8KNewsQ&A with Alicia Philipp: Atlanta Foundation Does Much More Than Award Grants
Alicia Philipp has led the Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta for almost 40 years and will retire in early 2020. She spoke...
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4.7KNewsHow One Philadelphia After-school Program Works to Be Trauma-informed
On an afternoon in October, kids in the Sunrise of Philadelphia after-school program made tissue-paper marigolds, assembled little altars and created masks....
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2.6KNewsAvoid Simplistic Thinking About Trauma-informed Care, Some Say
As the effort to be trauma informed sweeps across youth-serving agencies, some who research and treat trauma are urging people to think...
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2.7KNewsLA’s BEST Sees Increase in Mental Health Issues, Responds with a Focus on Trauma
The increase of mental health problems in kids is one of the reasons LA’s Best, an after-school provider serving 25,000 children in...
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1.8KNewsEqualize Access to Summer Activities, National Academy of Sciences Advises
Summertime can either reinforce or redress the inequalities that exist for young people. That’s one takeaway from the National Academy of Sciences’...
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3.1KNewsNew SEL Curriculum Intended to Help Youth Focus Attention, Develop Compassion
Many social and emotional learning models exist, but a new one introduced this year involved the Dalai Lama. The leader of Tibetan...
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4.6KFrom the BureausTo Help Foster Youth With Education, More Data, Analysis Needed, Experts Say
Nine percent of foster youth who are in middle school in New York City are proficient in math compared to approximately 40%...
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2.0KNewsOther Cities Note How Denver Turned Marijuana Into Money for After-school Programs
The green skunky smell of lushly growing marijuana fills the air as drivers travel down the highway leading from Denver International Airport...
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1.6KNewsYouth Leaders in Helsinki Say Their Voice Important in Policymaking
Teenage members of the Helsinki Youth Council joined with student leaders from India and Venezuela to call for greater youth voice in...
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2.7KNewsAfter-school Staff Can Earn Micro-credentials Through New NAA Program
After-school staff now can gain skills and credentials through a new micro-credentialing system offered by the National AfterSchool Association. In development for...
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2.0KNewsHow One OST Organization Recruits, Retains Staff
How can after-school and summer programs recruit and retain staff more easily? The Fresh Air Fund has a few answers. The 142-year-old...
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4.6KGuest Opinion EssayCollege Students With Homelessness, Foster Care Backgrounds Need Help Building Network
Earlier this year we wrote a column in Youth Today about the barriers faced by college students who had experienced homelessness or...
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5.6KNewsHow Finland Handles Worldwide Problem of Decreasing Physical Activity Among Kids
The birch trees were still golden on a crisp autumn day as children played outside Drumsö Primary School. They bounced a basketball,...
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3.8KGuest Opinion EssayCollege Campus Support Programs Are Strong Model of Services Helping Foster Youth
Most research shows that obtaining a college degree will lead to higher lifetime earnings than possessing only a high school diploma. However,...
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1.7KNewsSummer Learning CEO on R&D, More Chances for Low-income Youth
Youth Today reporter Stell Simonton spoke with Aaron Philip Dworkin, CEO of the National Summer Learning Association, on the closing day of...
