The Juvenile Law Center discusses the oft-overlooked role that municipal courts play in harming the prospects of American youth through unnecessary incarcerations...
In Philadelphia and in cities across the country, thousands of youth are engaged in purposeful internships, summer work programs and OST programs...
COVID-19 has greatly altered the lives of our youth. Few, if any, high students have attended school under the same circumstances as...
In Atlanta, the center of the South’s burgeoning film industry, a small nonprofit is bringing digital media and film-making skills to young...
MONKEYBUSINESSIMAGES/SHUTTERSTOCK Apprenticeship programs could soon expand in the United States, opening up more pathways for young people to earn while they learn....
Not long after graduating from Lakeside High School in Atlanta, Yabsira Gebrewubet found himself working at a Publix grocery store in the...
A group of student activists ages 14 to 25 is urging the Biden administration and Congress to create a plan for youth...
The course isn’t really training; it’s an exercise in propaganda and paranoia designed to encourage you to report based on little more...
When Michael Khanlarian began teaching incarcerated youth about the work of William Shakespeare, he never expected them to develop a rap about...
Throughout our work in youth programs and critical educational spaces, we have witnessed how educators, mentors and facilitators committed to liberatory learning...
The Sentencing Project releases a new report discussing how stark racial disparities in the juvenile justice system remain relatively unchanged even as...
Our labor economy is changing, and as more young people join the workforce, mentoring relationships can be a vital tool in retaining...
An essential resource for professionals in the child welfare field are the voices of those with lived experience who are willing to...
While awareness of sex trafficking has grown, too little attention is given to how this terrible violence impacts girls of color. In...
Across the nation, states are tightening their belts as the pandemic cuts into their budgets. Some are feeling a financial shock similar...
Fear. Loss. Uncertainty. Isolation. Many fear that the pandemic will result in a new “Lost Generation.” The impact of COVID-19 is particularly...
Over 1,500 students were restrained by school safety agents of the NYPD from the first quarter of 2019 through the first quarter...
Who are youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD)? The population of youth with IDD is vast. In 2018-19, the number of...
The year 2020 will be remembered as a year of great upheaval in the United States, with so many lives and communities...
In 2020, Tom Fandre had hoped to place at least 90 foster youth in internships in the Silicon Valley area. But when...