Youth Today
All posts tagged "Feature Story"
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4.4KFrom the BureausFrom Dropout to Diploma at Youth Opportunities Unlimited in Los Angeles
Last year, 11th-grader Terri Holden, 17, found herself on the road to dropping out of high school — like one in every...
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1.9KFrom the BureausJohn Legend Plays Backup at Panel on Mass Incarceration
“We have allowed our most vulnerable children to be thrown away, to be traumatized, to be locked up in these...
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2.0K► NewsmakersThe Heron Foundation has Selected Dana K. Bezerra as its Next President
Dana K. Bezerra is the new president of the New York City-based Heron Foundation, whose mission is to help impoverished communities through grantmaking...
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3.4KNewsBoys and Girls Clubs Do Have to Change to Run Quality Arts Programs, Wallace Study Finds
Remember doing art projects with construction paper and Elmer’s Glue? We’ve all had that experience, but we know it usually doesn’t constitute...
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1.8KGuest Opinion EssayESSA Funds Must Be Used Wisely to Amplify Crucial Summer Learning
Education is not one size fits all. Nor does it stop when the traditional academic year ends. Each student has different needs,...
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2.8K► Nonprofit ToolboxGetting Parents, Community Onboard With Youth Employment Programming
Youth employment programs are one of the most effective ways to assist disadvantaged youth, especially those in the juvenile justice system, in...
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2.4K► Nonprofit ToolboxHow to Work Successfully With Funders in Youth Work Programming
While it might not be productive to try to rank youth employment stakeholders by their importance, there’s no doubt that funders are...
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2.4K► Nonprofit ToolboxThe Necessary Ingredients in a Youth Employment Mix
As with almost every social undertaking, youth employment involves numerous stakeholders, each of which has its own perspective, goals, issues and vested...
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2.9K► Nonprofit ToolboxHow to Help ‘People’ People Interpret and Use Data
Walking into our monthly meeting for preventive services program management, we couldn’t miss the giant chart with numerous hand-written lines of different...
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3.0K► Nonprofit ToolboxCultivating Leaders: Scaffolding Successful Youth Outcomes with Strong Staff Supports
Holding hands, seven young people stood in a circle doing final breathing exercises before their entrance onto the stage — the culmination...
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3.2KFrom the FieldFamily Design Resources Offers Pennsylvania’s Legal Services Initiative Model to Other States
Sandra Bachelder is a paralegal for Pennsylvania’s Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network Legal Services Initiative (LSI). For a big part of her...
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1.9KFrom the FieldGrief Support for Children and Teens: Play, Share, Mourn
Teen girls taking a chance climbing a telephone pole belayed by their friends, a 14-year-old learning to ride a bike, children visiting...
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3.2KFrom the FieldPassion and Community: How Justice-involved Youth Are Helping Peers Outside Their Walls
“Tell me about a time you made a mistake.”
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2.1KFrom the FieldYouth Helping Youth: ServiceWorks VISTAs Reflect on 9/11 and Serving Their Generation
To kick off its third year, ServiceWorks – a youth development program from AmeriCorps, the Citi Foundation and Points of Light –...
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2.5KFrom the FieldIgniting a Passion: Newark Youth Take On Gun Violence
High school sophomores and juniors were challenged to apply the communication, project management and community mapping skills they’d learned in ServiceWorks to...
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2.7K► Nonprofit ToolboxUnify a Fragmented Profession: A Conversation About the OST Workforce
Ellen Gannett is director of the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST) at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College. NIOST...
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2.6K► Nonprofit ToolboxSchool-age Care and OST: A Conversation About the OST Workforce
Tony Streit, principal investigator for National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment spoke with Youth Today’s Resource Hub editor Sara Hill about...
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1.4KFrom the FieldEarn to Learn: A Teen’s Job Is to Do Well in School
Young people commit — in writing — to a grade they will earn for each class. The better they perform, the higher...
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2.1KFrom the FieldPartnering with Schools Reduces Hunger Among School Kids and Families
Hunger in America is not so much a lack of access to food; it’s a lack of access to nutrition. School-based programs...
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4.9KFrom the FieldWhat Lessons Have You Learned From the Kids You Work With?
As we gear up for summer programming, camp directors and staff who attended the American Camp Association conference in Atlanta last week...
