Youth Today
All posts tagged "Feature Story"
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6.2KFrom the BureausNew York Activists, Academics Urge End to Gang Database
Taylonn Murphy’s phone chimed steadily as he addressed reporters gathered in a boardroom Thursday. His friends were concerned. The previous night, Tessa...
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2.3KNewsGlobal Kids to Rally Underserved New York City Communities to Take Part In Census
When the 2020 Census launches in March, a group of 75 to 100 New York City teenagers will kick into gear. They’ll...
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2.1KGuest Opinion EssayCommunication, Cooperation Needed to Remove Firearms From Domestic Abusers
According to the Violence Policy Center’s 2019 report When Men Murder Women, 92% of homicides committed against women were perpetrated by men...
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1.9K► ReportsTobacco Product Use and Associated Factors Among Middle and High School Students
The CDC uses the latest results from the National Youth Tobacco Survey to provide an overview of the current rates of tobacco...
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4.4KNewsIs Four-day School Week Education Mistake Or Big Opportunity For Expanded Learning?
A surprising number of school districts across the nation have moved to a four-day school week. The trend, which gained ground during...
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2.0KNewsColorado AeroLab Thinks Four-day School Week Can Create Rural Jobs
In northern Colorado’s ski country, a rural area heavily reliant on tourism, some schools operate only four days a week. The education...
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4.3KNewsWashington ‘State-raised’ Inmates From Foster Care Urge Better Youth Support
Inevitable. That’s how winding up in prison felt for a group of former foster youth — now adults who are imprisoned at...
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2.7KGuest Opinion EssayCities That Work Closely With Would-be Shooters Have Gun Violence Success Stories
In the midst of the ongoing pain and heartbreak of America’s gun violence epidemic, there are some incredible success stories from around...
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2.6KGuest Opinion EssayWe Connected Former Gang Members, Clergy, Community and Police to Fight Violence
In the city of Stockton, Calif., gun violence was already notably on the rise in 2011 because of a series of compounding...
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1.5KGuest Opinion EssayOur Jacksonville Partnerships, Social Structure Help Give People Second Chances
When we began our journey to rebuild broken urban communities in our city, Jacksonville, Fla., 20 years ago, little did we know...
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3.4KNewsPower of Youth Challenge Fuels Solutions Like College Prep, Blue Lollipops
When Isaac Espinal was in the eighth grade in Fort Worth, Texas, he compared his local public school with a nearby private...
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3.9KGuest Opinion EssayWhere Are LGBTQ Youth in Gun Violence Conversation?
Jerel’s story is one of many tales of hate, anger, pain and violence that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer youth face...
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8.5KBook ReviewsBook Makes Strong Case For Free Play: Will After-school Field Take Note?
Several years ago when Pasi Sahlberg was a visiting professor of practice at Harvard, he took his young son to visit a...
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1.7K► ReportsSpecialized Case Management for Young Adults in Extended Federal Foster Care
Researchers at the Urban Institute discuss the policies and practices best suited for meeting the needs of foster youth through the age...
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1.8KNewsQ&A with Alicia Philipp: Atlanta Foundation Does Much More Than Award Grants
Alicia Philipp has led the Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta for almost 40 years and will retire in early 2020. She spoke...
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4.7KNewsHow One Philadelphia After-school Program Works to Be Trauma-informed
On an afternoon in October, kids in the Sunrise of Philadelphia after-school program made tissue-paper marigolds, assembled little altars and created masks....
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2.6KNewsAvoid Simplistic Thinking About Trauma-informed Care, Some Say
As the effort to be trauma informed sweeps across youth-serving agencies, some who research and treat trauma are urging people to think...
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2.8KNewsLA’s BEST Sees Increase in Mental Health Issues, Responds with a Focus on Trauma
The increase of mental health problems in kids is one of the reasons LA’s Best, an after-school provider serving 25,000 children in...
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2.6K► ReportsEstimated Proportion of Adult Health Problems Attributable to Adverse Childhood Experiences & Implications for Prevention
The CDC quantifies the effects that adverse childhood experiences have on one's health and socioeconomic outcomes through to adulthood. The report makes...
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1.8KNewsEqualize Access to Summer Activities, National Academy of Sciences Advises
Summertime can either reinforce or redress the inequalities that exist for young people. That’s one takeaway from the National Academy of Sciences’...
