Youth Today
All posts tagged "Feature Story"
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295OpinionThe students we stop counting: Education, incarceration and the children left behind
South Carolina's school-to-prison pipeline, how the systems create a cycle of failure instead of support — and five solutions.
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544NewsQ&A: Brit Christopher and Gabriel Arika on why youth prisons don’t work — and how their youth-led magazine is building a movement
The No Kids in Prison magazine is a project of Youth First Justice Collaborative (YFJCo), a national organization dedicated to ending youth...
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276OpinionManifest Destiny’s Child
Dan Warren traces a line from a famous 19th-century painting to today's well-intentioned but one-directional efforts to "fix" young people's lives.
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425► ReportsInvesting in the workforce to sustain and expand youth services in NYC
The Collaborative for Advancing Youth Development gives recommendations on how NYC can better support and sustain its youth services workforce.
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397From the FieldFour things navigating public-private partnerships taught me about leadership
A strong community partnership succeeds because people trust each other enough to solve problems together.
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407From the FieldPeople want to help youth who are brave enough to be different
My experience with Fungi For Future has shown me that when young leaders pursue what excites them, community support often follows.
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404From the FieldThe problem isn’t access, it’s application: What teens actually need from financial education
Financial education programs should have structured, repeated opportunities to make age-appropriate financial decisions — and see the real-world impact.
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567From the FieldAddressing the opportunity cost of youth programs
We say we want to expand youth opportunity, but programs are still designed around the assumption that young people can participate if...
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683From the FieldWe’re waiting too long to help kids in crisis — and leaving foster care as the only option
Integrated, family-centered behavioral health care offers a path forward — one that aligns treatment with the goal of keeping families safely together.
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478From the FieldThe Odyssey’s epic tale of productive struggle
Beneath the mythical creatures and heroic feats is a timeless lesson in how we as humans learn and grow through productive struggle.
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589From the FieldYouth homelessness prevention starts long before a young person loses their home
Washington state shifted its youth homelessness strategy from crisis response to prevention.
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917NewsWhen young people lead, communities change: Meet the new class of Carnegie Young Leaders
Young leaders receive grants along with access to coaching, a national network of civic leaders and the resources needed to launch bold...
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791OpinionWe’ve celebrated America’s 250th. Now what?
When we invest in comprehensive, experiential civics education, America’s rising generation of leaders benefits — and so do the rest of us.
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971From the FieldWhy career readiness programs should treat teens as emerging adults
In this career readiness program, teens get work ready not by hearing about how work operates but by trying it themselves.
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843OpinionA flashlight on the life spaces of young people
Community youth surveys can illuminate where opportunities are plentiful, uneven or missing across the developmental ecosystem.
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979From the FieldThe boys we forgot to see: What working inside juvenile hall taught me about complex care
Complex care requires adults to see the whole person, not merely the behavior, diagnosis, charge or file.
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943OpinionYou might also like: The problem with learning styles
While it stems from a generous and well-meaning instinct, the popular focus on fixed learning styles can be more restrictive than helpful.
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1.1KOpinionThe skills are there. The opportunity is not. What the future of work is missing
World Youth Skills Day on July 15 draws attention to how young people are developing essential skills but still finding pathways to...
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1.0KOpinion“A” for… no effort: High school grade inflation
A recent Texas high school graduate on what grade inflation looks like from inside the classroom.
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2.4KFrom the FieldQ&A with Shourya Kancharla, 16-year-old founder of Simple Minds Matter, on bringing affordable online therapy to high school students
Karen Pittman gets the story of how a 13-year-old designed a brilliant solution to a much talked about problem — youth mental...
