Youth Today
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3.3KNewsNew Mexico head of child services steps down following controversies
ALBUQUERQUE, NM—Brian Blalock, the embattled cabinet secretary of the New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department, stepped down as the leader of...
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1.3KNewsSummer funding helped school districts address disparities
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — After another pandemic-disrupted school year, organizers of vastly expanded summer learning opportunities are investing heavily in efforts to...
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2.4K► NewsmakersCarlos Santini is the new CEO of Mizzen by Mott
Carlos Santini joins the Mott Foundation to lead its afterschool program improvement organization and app, Mizzen by Mott.
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1.8KNewsDemand for summer programs outpaces resources
When Virginia Clinton-Lisell received word in February that the summer day program where she had planned for her 9-year-old daughter, Katie, was...
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2.4K► Nonprofit ToolboxHow nonprofits can support employee mental health amid ‘burnout’ epidemic
For some, work life became easier during the pandemic, thanks to shortened commutes and virtual meetings. Not so for Jennifer, a nonprofit...
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5.7KNewsBlack children most likely to be investigated by CPS, study says
For a lot of children in the U.S, especially Black kids, a common part of childhood — alongside the typical birthday parties,...
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872GrantsChildren’s healthy learning environments in disadvantaged communities project grants
GRANT FOCUS: Child/Youth Health, Minority Children/Youth, School, Environmental Health, Systemic Racism | Amount: ~$200,000 | Deadline: Sept. 10, 2021
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3.7KNewsNatural playgrounds offer restorative play for pandemic-fatigued children
A growing trend in playground design aims to eliminate over-programmed playgrounds in favor of more natural ones that lend themselves to unscripted...
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2.1K► ReportsDiversity of nonbinary youth
The Trevor Project uses data from its National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health to highlight and discuss the diversity of youth...
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2.2KFrom the BureausA New York City detention-diversion project is reserved for girls and queer youth
Since it launched in January, 25 youth have enrolled in a three-year pilot project that pays girls and queer youth involved in...
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4.1KNewsIn Florida’s murder capitol, gun suicides are overshadowed by gun homicides
It had been scarcely a year since his son was discharged from the Navy following a suicide attempt, Ramon Day said, and...
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2.5KNewsAmerican Rescue Plan funds flow to summer out-of-school programs
As $122 billion flows into American education from the American Rescue Plan, some kids and families are beginning to feel the impact...
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3.5KNewsUnrecognized by Alexa and Siri, impaired speech is being used to develop new speech-assistance software
Google’s Project Euphonia has been testing a prototype that, by mid-June, employed the voices of roughly 1,000 disabled individuals, including Cisek, who...
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1.6KNews316 people are shot every day in America. Here are 5 stories
They panic if a balloon pops. They hold dying family members. They push their wounded bodies to heal and scroll longingly through...
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2.7KGuest Opinion EssayTo ‘Build Back Better,’ we must invest in our young people of color
As the U.S. begins to rebuild from the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, the Biden administration has signaled that it intends to seize the...
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3.2KNewsEven with a windfall of new funding, out-of-school programs face challenges
Last summer, when it became clear that K-12 schools across Kansas City, Missouri, would have to teach virtually due to the pandemic,...
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1.8KNewsYouth organizations step up to fill gap in classroom civic discourse
As partisan tensions over America’s fraught racial history reshape classrooms into ideological battlegrounds, community youth organizations are finding new, alternative avenues for...
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1.7KFrom the BureausNonprofits push parole reform and housing for parolees
Some among the 3,614 formerly incarcerated persons living in city shelters in 2019, as one example, spent stints in city jails for...
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1.8KNewsNew Mexico to begin distributing $1.8 million in pandemic aid to former foster youth
A first round of pandemic aid payments to young adults transitioning out of foster care is expected to go out this month...
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4.4KNewsCalifornia approves 1st state-funded guaranteed income for former foster youth
California lawmakers on Thursday approved the first state-funded guaranteed income plan in the U.S., $35 million for monthly cash payments to qualifying...
