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All posts tagged "Feature Story"
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3.4KNewsDurham Public Schools’ Exceptional Children Services ‘Horrifically Underserved My Son’
From the time she adopted Anthony, at age 4, Wendy Tonker knew he was special. He was special because he was diagnosed...
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1.6K► ReportsA Global Framework for Youth Mental Health
The World Economic Forum and Orygen partnered to produce this comprehensive framework to address the youth mental health crisis around the world...
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3.7KNewsSchools Urged to Use After-school, Community Programs to Help in Reopening
After-school and summer program leaders are trying to get heard. It’s as if they’re standing on a hilltop and waving: We can...
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2.0KNewsIntensive Coaching, Group Therapy Helped California Foster Youth at Risk for Homelessness, Chapin Hall Study Shows
In the transition from adolescence to adulthood, even the best-prepared kids can be expected to stumble.
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4.4KGuest Opinion EssayInclusion of Homebuilders Model Makes Family First Act a Much More Useful Law
The first time I saw the photo, nearly 20 years ago, I was so moved it almost made me cry. That may...
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4.7KGuest Opinion EssayPandemic Affecting Adolescent Development; We Must Help Them Handle New Traumas
The COVID-19 pandemic spotlights the disproportionate impact of crises on our most vulnerable communities, particularly here in New Mexico. Reports across the...
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2.0KNewsFor Kids Unsafe at Home, School Closure Increases Risk For Trauma
In January, Sharral Dean, a therapist at the Family Counseling Center of Central Georgia, was seeing about 30 young clients a week....
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2.9KGuest Opinion EssaySisters Inspire Disabled Community to Share Social Distancing Experiences
Last week, while I was interviewing a source for my column, I was alerted to an online campaign by an Instagram page...
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2.6KNewsSummer Youth Programming a Patchwork of Open, Closed, Virtual Due to COVID-19
Earlier this week, Lisa Haverty cleared away board games, dolls and other items from the large central room at Haverty Hollow, the...
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4.4KGuest Opinion EssayArt, Augmented Reality Are Tools for Change in Youth-led Gun Violence Movement
Art is subversive. It has a history of undermining the status quo and of transforming perceptions.
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1.5K► ReportsGetting Support for Summer Learning: How Federal, State, City, and District Policies Affect Summer Learning Programs
A new report from the Wallace Foundation draws on the data and experience of five urban school districts and community partners to...
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3.4KGuest Opinion EssayLet’s Boldly Reimagine Child Welfare System to Strengthen Families In Post-COVID-19 World
A crisis — such as the COVID-19 global pandemic — has a way of shaking up our worlds. And while this can...
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2.1K► NewsmakersNemours Children’s Health System Appoints James Digan as Enterprise Chief Development Officer
The Nemours Children’s Health System recently announced the appointment of James Digan as its next enterprise chief development officer, effective in July....
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1.6KNewsExpand National Service To Provide Jobs For Youth, Adults, Urban Institute Report Urges
A new report by the Urban Institute describes how federal jobs programs could be ramped up today to address the crisis of...
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1.4KGuest Opinion EssayInternet Easing Effects of Social Isolation During Ramadan, for Disabled Community
For most of us in this country the idea of social distancing is a new one. When we greet each other it...
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1.6K► ReportsEarly Estimates of the Indirect Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Maternal and Child Mortality
New modelling research published in The Lancet indicates a worrying surge in maternal and child mortality is coming due to the ongoing...
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91.9KGuest Opinion Essay12-Step Program Slogans Can Heal a COVID-19 World
This coming January, I plan to celebrate 20 years sober. I got clean as a teenager, at a drug and alcohol treatment...
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1.4K► ReportsLost At Home: The Risks and Challenges for Internally Displaced Children
A new report from UNICEF takes a comprehensive look at the global internal displacement of children due to conflict and violence.
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3.0KGuest Opinion EssayNew Mexico Must Do More For Homeless Youth
As a longtime advocate for children, youth and families in New Mexico, I wholeheartedly believe in the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage...
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3.1KGuest Opinion EssayNative American Children Protected in Groundbreaking Foster Care Settlement
For decades, we have repeated and recapitulated: Our nation’s foster care system is broken. New Mexico, which receives the lowest markers of...
