Youth Today
All posts tagged "California"
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1.6KGrantsL.A. Region Youth Education, Health and Development Program Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Education, Youth Development, Physical Activity, Youth Sports, Health, Food Access | Amount: Unspecified | Deadline: May 1, 2020
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1.4KGrantsCA Youth Conservation Education and Job Training Program Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Job/Career Training, Environmental Education, Youth Development | Amount: $1,000 - $5,000 | Deadline: May 11, 2020
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1.6KGrantsCA,HI Conservation, Education and Healthcare Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Education, Health, Healthcare, Environment, California, Hawaii | Amount: $50,000 - $200,000 | Deadline: Feb. 24, 2020
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3.2KOpinionWe Connected Former Gang Members, Clergy, Community and Police to Fight Violence
In the city of Stockton, Calif., gun violence was already notably on the rise in 2011 because of a series of compounding...
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2.4KOpinionCalifornia Partnerships Helping Reduce Gun Violence, Incarceration
California has comprehensively strengthened its gun safety laws over the past 25 years and is now generally considered to have the strongest...
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1.4KGrantsSF Bay Area Youth Literacy Program Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Education, Literacy, K-5, Reading, Disadvantaged Students | Amount: Unspecified | Deadline: Dec. 15, 2019
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2.2KOpinionWe Need to Study These Amazing Low-crime Trends in California, NY
Leaders across the United States agonize over recent mass shootings as Americans fear more to come. Perhaps we can learn from youth...
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1.4KGrantsOakland Family Reading Program Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Reading, Literacy, Education, Child/Youth Development, Family | Amount: $250 - $1,000 | Deadline: Oct. 4, 2019
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4.8KOpinionFor Homeless Youth, Surviving Is a Crime
Youth homelessness is a tragedy, not a crime. But in cities across the country, homeless youth face civil and even criminal penalties...
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4.7KNewsFight Against Youth Homelessness Includes Host Homes, 100-day Challenges
Relly Brown was so destitute in 2016 they could not even get a room in the abandoned house on the corner of...
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3.8KNewsLGBTQ Youth in Foster Care See Higher Roadblocks Than Others in System
Foster youth who identify as LGBTQ face significantly more hurdles in their educational path, experiencing harassment, homelessness and depression at higher rates,...
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1.9KGrantsSouthern CA Children, Youth, Family and Community Project Grants
Subject: Child/Youth Health and Welfare, Youth Development, Education, Culture, Community, Family | Deadline: May 1, 2019 | Amount: $100,000 - $1,000,000
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12.1KFrom the BureausThe Problem of Youth Homelessness Is Not the Fault of the Youth, Experts Say
The fight against youth homelessness drags on and on. It is not that the fighters are no match for a seemingly intractable...
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5.2KOpinionCalifornia Legislation Eases Access to Financial Aid, Support for Foster Students
Young people from foster care face significant challenges when it comes to transitioning into independent adulthood. Research shows that foster youth take...
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13.5KNewsCalifornia Foster Students Get Patchwork of College Support
The shops are beginning to come alive on a Monday morning as Yamina Inzunza arrives at a coffee shop popular with college...
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3.3K► NewsmakersChristine Stoner-Mertz Announced as Executive Director of California Alliance
Christine Stoner-Mertz is the new executive director at the California Alliance of Child and Family Services (California Alliance). She succeeds Carroll Schroeder,...
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4.8KOpinionProposed Family First Regulations May Harm Kinship Care of Youth in Foster System
The Family First Act, that vastly overhyped law that, according to those doing the hyping, is supposed to revolutionize child welfare finance...
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3.3KNews2 Years of Youth Coverage from U. of Southern California
Teen homelessness. Gun control. After-school funding. For two years, students at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism...
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5.6KFrom the BureausLA Foster Families Suffer As Stipends Are Delayed By Bottleneck in Foster Reform
Destiny Adams was driving on Balboa Boulevard, on the way to visit her two younger sisters, when she got the call.
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3.3KFrom the BureausYoung Family of Prisoners Find Safe Space at POPS in LA High Schools
It’s lunchtime on a recent Wednesday at Venice High School. Twenty or so students are sitting at their desks with full plates...
