“Someone is going to come to your house in the middle of the night and take your parents, and you will be...
The Tulsa Girls’ Math Circle is just one of several University of Tulsa’s community engagement programs that reach out to youth. The...
Since local violence peaked in the 1990s, the Compton neighborhood has battled gang culture and worked to lower its high crime rates....
Let's start by saying that it’s clear that all professionals who work with youth have full schedules, are always busy with weekend...
Last year, 11th-grader Terri Holden, 17, found herself on the road to dropping out of high school — like one in every...
“We have allowed our most vulnerable children to be thrown away, to be traumatized, to be locked up in these...
Dana K. Bezerra is the new president of the New York City-based Heron Foundation, whose mission is to help impoverished communities through grantmaking...
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...
Education is not one size fits all. Nor does it stop when the traditional academic year ends. Each student has different needs,...
Youth employment programs are one of the most effective ways to assist disadvantaged youth, especially those in the juvenile justice system, in...
While it might not be productive to try to rank youth employment stakeholders by their importance, there’s no doubt that funders are...
As with almost every social undertaking, youth employment involves numerous stakeholders, each of which has its own perspective, goals, issues and vested...
Walking into our monthly meeting for preventive services program management, we couldn’t miss the giant chart with numerous hand-written lines of different...
Holding hands, seven young people stood in a circle doing final breathing exercises before their entrance onto the stage — the culmination...
Sandra Bachelder is a paralegal for Pennsylvania’s Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network Legal Services Initiative (LSI). For a big part of her...
Teen girls taking a chance climbing a telephone pole belayed by their friends, a 14-year-old learning to ride a bike, children visiting...
“Tell me about a time you made a mistake.”
To kick off its third year, ServiceWorks – a youth development program from AmeriCorps, the Citi Foundation and Points of Light –...
High school sophomores and juniors were challenged to apply the communication, project management and community mapping skills they’d learned in ServiceWorks to...
Ellen Gannett is director of the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST) at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College. NIOST...