Youth Today
All posts tagged "Feature Story"
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3.5KGuest Opinion EssayWhen Young People Lead, True Benefit Follows
Fresno is in the middle of the desert. The summers are hot. The average temperature in September is 93 degrees. On this...
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2.1KVideosHighlights of Immigration Coverage in Southern California
Students at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism have been shooting videos about the undocumented young people...
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2.1KGuest Opinion EssaySchool Shootings a Tiny Fraction of Violence That Menaces Youth
The best way to stop school violence is to stop all youth violence. School violence really is a form of youth violence....
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1.4KGrantsChild Welfare System Improvement Grants
Subject: Child/Youth Welfare, Adoption, Foster Care | Deadline: July 18, 2018 | Amount: $1,000,000 - $1,610,000
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4.3KGuest Opinion EssayOur Lives Are At Stake
I won’t let you fill me up anymore. Your hatred is toxic and time consuming You taught me to run away and...
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5.4KNewsMany Homeless Youth Are Pregnant or Parenting, Chapin Hall Study Finds
Nearly half of America’s homeless women and girls are parents or are about to be parents, a chilling new study has found.
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1.8K► ReportsTransforming Juvenile Probation – A Vision for Getting it Right
The Annie E. Casey Foundation produced this report presenting the case for reforming juvenile probation to be a more effective, fair and...
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2.8KGuest Opinion EssayMentoring Programs Need to Experiment With What Works Best for Foster Youth
If you work with youth in foster care, you know that every child is unique with specific needs, strengths and opportunities. It...
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2.3K► NewsmakersNina Stack will be the Next Executive Director of the Champlin Foundation
Nina Stack will be the next executive director of the Champlin Foundation. The current president of the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers...
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1.2KGuest Opinion EssayFinding the Right Volunteers Through Targeted Recruitment
Volunteer coordinators are often told to develop an elevator speech to use in their efforts to recruit volunteers. An elevator speech is...
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3.0KFrom the BureausLos Angeles Charity Drive Supports Youth Housing
Charities from across Los Angeles County came together on April 15 to donate home goods to underprivileged youth. Led by the Los...
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2.7K► ReportsA Seat at the Table: African American Youth’s Perception of K-12 Education
The United Negro College Fund used data from a national survey of 1,700 low-income minority youth to craft this report explaining these...
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3.1KNewsHorizons Works, Plays With Low-income Kids to Close Summer Opportunity Gap
Children ran and played on a green lawn just outside the glass walls of Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School in Atlanta recently, as...
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4.9K► NewsmakersShawn Escoffery is the New Executive Director of the Roy and Patricia Disney Family Foundation
The Roy and Patricia Disney Family Foundation (RPDFF) has named Shawn Escoffery as its new executive director. He joins RPDFF from the...
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2.3KGuest Opinion EssayApplying Escalation Model to School Shootings Can Keep Everyone Safer
The tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018 reawakened our national terror of school shootings and renewed...
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2.7KNewsBryan Stevenson’s Message to Youth Workers: Change Narrative for Kids
At the end of April, Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Institute opened a striking museum and a memorial to 4,400 victims of lynching...
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2.6KGuest Opinion EssayMentoring Graduation Coaches Needed for Mass. Students
Massachusetts is considered a leader in education in the country, with the highest standardized test scores and some of the best public...
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3.8KFrom the BureausAs Colleges Polarize Politically, Extremists Are Getting Younger
Colleges are becoming ideological battlegrounds. A national survey of freshman students found the incoming 2016 class was the most politically extreme in...
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6.1KGuest Opinion EssayThe Department of Child and Family Services Mostly Failed Me, But Still I Persist
I was in the Department of Child and Family Services foster care system for nine years of my life. It was my...
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1.9K► ReportsNew Zealand’s Youth Justice Transformation: Lessons for the U.S.
The National Juvenile Justice Network takes a look at the successes of New Zealand's juvenile justice system and discusses how the United...
