Youth Today
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1.9KNewsShackles and Solitary: Inside Louisiana’s Harshest Juvenile Lockup
Scrambling to respond to a wave of violence and escapes from other juvenile detention facilities, Louisiana state officials quietly opened the high-security...
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2.8KNews‘We celebrate together’: Home visitation programs support new parents
In addition to providing basic prenatal and early childhood development education to parents, home visitors are also trained to screen for violence...
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965News‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill passes in Florida, goes to governor
Florida's Republican-dominated legislature passed a bill Tuesday to forbid instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade, rejecting...
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935NewsIn Selma, foot soldier’s kin boosts youth voting rights role
For longer than Elliott Smith can recall, annual commemorations of the historic voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, doubled as...
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1.8KFrom the BureausAt detention facilities offering high school diplomas, college classes are seen as next step
In mid-February 2022, 20 young men across eight of the facilities started working on an associate’s degree from Middlesex, becoming the first...
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1.7KNewsHow teaching city kids to farm paid off for this Texas community
An Austin nonprofit with farms on two plots of land working with young people to grow fruits and vegetables increased its production...
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1.4KNewsNew Mexico to offer equal pay to Native American teachers
New Mexico will begin to offer equal pay to dozens of Indigenous language teachers as part of a new law aimed at...
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5.4KFrom the BureausA gang-banger since 8th grade, former Blood sets a new course with a former prosecutor’s help
There is no recent official count of how many individuals have departed gang life. In 2012, the most recent year that the...
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1.8KGuest Opinion EssayEffective anti-violence efforts are trauma-informed
The past couple of years have been some of the deadliest for many major U.S. cities. Murder rates have spiked and gun...
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1.7KNewsStates launch probe into TikTok’s effect on kids’ health
State attorneys general have launched a nationwide investigation into TikTok and its possible harmful effects on young users' mental health, widening government...
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2.4K► ReportsReport: More than 5 million children orphaned by global COVID pandemic with numbers still climbing
Researchers publish a new report in The Lancet showing how many children have been orphaned by the COVID pandemic.
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983NewsActivism grows nationwide in response to school book bans
Over the past year, book challenges and bans have reached levels not seen in decades, according to officials at the American Library...
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938NewsPfizer shots protect kids from severe COVID even in omicron
Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine gave children 5 and older strong protection against hospitalization and death even during the omicron surge that hit youngsters...
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5.7KGuest Opinion EssayIn child welfare, if the solution is money, the problem is poverty
In the beginning, the builders of what would become a system of massive intrusion into families, and, ultimately, the separation of millions...
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1.5KNewsQ&A: Making more room for Black fathers to be involved in their children’s education
Tasha Alston, the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford’s inaugural chief diversity and inclusion officer, says her first book urges the broad public...
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1.9K► Nonprofit ToolboxThree truths (and a chart!) for setting realistic fundraising goals
How do you really know if your fundraising goal is achievable? Janeal Ford is the president and CEO of Fordable Fundraising, step...
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1.4KNewsUN report: Today’s children will see massive increase in climate extremes
Deadly with extreme weather now, climate change is about to get so much worse. It is likely going to make the world...
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2.0KFrom the BureausQ&A: Exalt’s Gisele Castro on the importance of New York’s “raise the age” law
Exalt is a nonprofit in New York City. Giselle Castro talks about Exalt's work and their "raise the age" efforts. They work...
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1.6KNewsShould a sex trafficking defense apply in a homicide case?
What looks like a clear-cut case of criminal homicide could actually be legal under a Wisconsin law that absolves sex trafficking victims...
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1.4KNewsParents of teen charged in school shooting to stand trial
A judge on Thursday ordered the parents of a 15-year-old boy charged with killing four students at his Michigan high school to...
