Youth Today
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4.5KGuest Opinion EssayElevating equity and community voice beyond the pandemic
UPDATE: New video added — Over the last eighteen months, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to tectonic shifts in the ways our...
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3.3KNewsCongress mulls ending federal program that OKs sub-minimum wages for workers with disabilities
After graduating from a Massachusetts technical high school, John Anton took a job in a sheltered workshop north of Boston where he...
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2.4KNewsJuvenile cases in 2019 dropped to the lowest level in 14 years, federal data show
Juvenile offenses involving property, drug and public order offenses, combined, declined in 2019 to their lowest levels since 2005, according to recently...
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1.6KNewsMigrant children spend weeks at US shelters as more arrive
Five months after the Biden administration declared an emergency and raced to set up shelters to house a record number of children...
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2.5KNewsGeorgetown University launches national project certifying correctional officials in practices designed to limit solitary confinement of juveniles
The Georgetown University Center for Juvenile Justice Reform is preparing to train this fall's inaugural class of juvenile justice executives and rank-and-file...
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1.9KNewsNew law gives juvenile offenders in Washington state same rights to a lawyer that adults have
Defendants who are 18 years old and younger will have the same access to legal counsel as adults in Washington, starting next...
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2.3KGuest Opinion EssayDisruptive students, often facing challenges at home and in their communities, deserve acts of “restorative justice”
This is how practitioners of restorative justice approach things: First, focus on building strong, authentic relationships in a community, including schools that...
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2.3K► ReportsLGBTQ youth suicide prevention in schools
The Trevor Project issues a new brief using data from its 2021 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health discussing the inclusion...
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1.2K► Nonprofit ToolboxDonor communication key to successful program expansion, pivot
The ever-shifting conditions of the coronavirus pandemic have forced many nonprofits to adapt their programming on the fly, but responsiveness and clear...
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1.8KNewsRecord delta wave hits kids, raises fear as US schools open
With the highly contagious delta variant spreading across the U.S., children are filling hospital intensive care beds instead of classrooms in record...
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1.8KNewsAnti-violence internship program finds flexibility in face of fluctuating pandemic
Kabuya recently completed an internship at a local juicery where she learned skills related to entrepreneurship and financial literacy. The internship program...
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4.5KNewsRoommate-matching services expand housing options for people with disabilities
Growing up autistic, Meghan McCarthy found it hard to make friends. By age 24, still living with parents whom she dearly loved,...
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3.1KGuest Opinion EssayYou can fix most ‘child welfare’ problems by giving poor people money
A concept some of us have been pushing for decades has suddenly become a centerpiece of the child welfare debate: Family policing...
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1.7K► ReportsReport: Juveniles in pioneering San Francisco detention diversion project were less likely to re-offend than youths on probation
Juvenile offenders participating in a 30-year-old project diverting youth from detention to community-based programs were less likely to cycle back into incarceration...
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2.5KGuest Opinion EssayPreventing needless punishments, including student arrests, demands new approaches as classes resume
A June 2021 report from the U.S. Department of Education found that, from the 2015-16 through 2017-18 school years, there was a...
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4.1K► NewsmakersYMCA of the USA names Suzanne McCormick as its first woman president and CEO
YMCA of the USA has named Suzanne McCormick as its next president and CEO, making her the first woman leader in the...
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3.8KNewsHow afterschool programs are using data to measure outcomes and equity
The power of using data to drive decision-making has become a mainstay in most industries, and in recent years has begun to...
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1.1KNewsNorth Carolina is child bride destination; bill could end it
North Carolina State lawmakers are nearing passage of a bill that could dampen the state's appeal as the go-to place to bring...
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2.0KFrom the BureausAmid nationwide debate about police in schools, a few districts recently disbanded those units
For Madeline Borrelli, a special education teacher in Brooklyn, N.Y., having NYPD-trained law enforcement officers in schools is a cut-and-dry issue: “School...
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1.4K► Nonprofit ToolboxGrantmakers hate these 4 things
From the local service club wanting a one-page letter to the government agency requiring a hundred-page response, every grantmaker who contributes to...
