Youth Today
All posts tagged "Feature Story"
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2.8KNewsImpact of Community Collaborations on Youth Unclear But Promising, Report Says
Can communities improve educational equity by collaborating across agencies? The idea of cross-sector collaboration caught fire in 2011 after an article in...
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1.7K► ReportsU.S. Homeless Student Population: Federal Data Summary for Years 2015-2018
The National Center for Homeless Education compiles and presents data on the numbers of homeless students attending schools across the country, showing...
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2.0KNewsVermont Adopting Icelandic Program to Curb Substance Use
What can youth advocates in rural New England learn about reducing teen drug and alcohol use from a small island nation just...
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3.2KNewsAfter-school Programs At Public Housing Could Get Boost If AHEAD Passes
After-school programs connected with public housing could expand if a bill introduced in December by Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state...
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2.5KNewsPublic Needs to Know Non-family Relationships Can Heal Trauma, Report Says
If you work with youth, you probably know about the significance of relationships in the lives of young people.
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1.9K► ReportsAddressing the Learning Crisis: An Urgent Need to Better Finance Education for the Poorest Children
UNICEF presents data on education and education funding from 42 countries and discusses the impacts that the lack of resources has on...
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3.4KNewsThrough Making Videos, Boston Group Home Youth See Their Lives More Clearly
When Tyquan Ruffen looks back at his life he sees a patchwork of places he’s lived. Italian Home, Knights Children Center, Harrington...
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4.6KGuest Opinion EssayReal Origin of Child Welfare Points to Today’s Foster Care Wrongheadedness
Racial and class bias are child welfare’s original sins. So it’s no wonder so many in the field are desperate to whitewash...
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3.8KNewsOccupational Therapy on Horse Offers Physical, Emotional Benefits, Parent Says
Eighteen-year-old Christopher Frierson is sitting tall and riding high. In one weekend in spring 2019, he competed in an English-saddle horse show,...
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3.6K► ReportsMentoring for Preventing and Reducing Substance Use and Associated Risks Among Youth
The National Mentoring Resource Center recently published this comprehensive review of the most effective mentoring practices for the prevention and reduction of...
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2.2KGuest Opinion EssayI Thought I Could Help My Last Mentee — But I Was Wrong
It’s pretty to believe that if one only puts in the time, he can save a wayward child. It doesn’t always work...
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3.9K► NewsmakersYouth Villages Names Jessica Foster Chief Strategy Officer
Youth Villages recently named Jessica Foster as its new chief strategy officer. The appointment is a promotion from within, as Foster has...
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1.9KFrom the BureausMeet ‘Firefighter’ in Middle of New York Hospital’s War Against Gun Violence
On one Thursday in March, James Dobbins was towering over a group of teen boys as they all headed to a community...
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2.0K► ReportsSexual Victimization Reported By Youth in Juvenile Facilities, 2018
The Bureau of Justice statistics releases the most current figures on youth-reported instances of sexual victimization during incarceration at juvenile detention facilities...
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3.7KGuest Opinion EssayTeaching Students to Know the Signs Is Key to Preventing Gun Violence
It’s been seven years since my son Daniel was murdered, along with 19 of his classmates and six educators, at Sandy Hook...
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2.0K► ReportsWhen Student Loans Linger: Characteristics of Borrowers Who Hold Student Loans over Multiple Decades
A new brief from the Urban Institute discusses student loan borrowers who hold the debt for multiple decades into adulthood, affecting their...
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1.7KGuest Opinion Essay‘They Put Us on a One-Way Street and Expect Us to Go the Other Way’
I’ve been taking all my pain out on this paper I’m sorry I’m still stuck up in this cell a year later...
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3.1KGuest Opinion EssayRTCs At Front of Line to Squeeze Money Out of Family First Act
Remember the Family First Act? That’s the vastly overhyped federal legislation touted as a revolutionary change in how child welfare is financed....
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2.9KNewsProvider In Las Cruces, NM, Left Stretched Thin After 2013 Ruling
Jolene Martinez of Las Cruces couldn’t be more thrilled to be an adoptive parent to a second foster child, who she adopted...
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5.2KNewsNew Mexicans See Foster Care Challenges, But Are Encouraged by Changes
Jordan, a teenaged foster youth, has lost count of all the places she’s lived in the state, including the streets of New...
