Youth Today
All posts tagged "Feature Story"
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3.4KGuest Opinion EssayWe Must Change the Narrative About College With Youth Who Have Experienced Foster Care
While many high school seniors receive acceptance letters from colleges across the country this spring, young people who have experienced foster care...
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3.5KGuest Opinion EssayMBK Rising! Inspires Young People of Color to Be More Effective Leaders
When I arrived in Oakland, Calif., to attend the Obama Foundation’s MBK Rising! convening in February, I was one of many community...
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2.1KNewsAlabama Mayor Says Peace is Everyone’s Responsibility
Mayor Randall Woodfin says Birmingham is ready for peace. With a call for communitywide investment, the mayor says it’s time for solutions...
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2.4K► ReportsEliminating Racial Disparities in Maternal and Infant Mortality
The Center for American Progress provides a policy framework seeking to eliminate the stark and troubling racial disparities in maternal and infant...
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4.3KNewsBirmingham Mayor, Grassroots Organizers Believe They Have Gun Violence Solutions
When Randall Woodfin received the call that his older brother, Ralph Jr., had been shot, he rushed to the scene in the...
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3.2K► NewsmakersGeoffrey Canada Receives the Richard Murphy Leadership Award
Geoffrey Canada is the recipient of the Richard Murphy Leadership Award for his extraordinary accomplishments in the youth services field in New...
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3.2K口 Advertising ArchiveGirl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles: CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles (GSGLA) is the largest girl serving organization in Southern California, and Girl Scouts is the world’s...
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2.3K► NewsmakersJohn Etchemendy Named Family Violence & Domestic Relations Program Dir. at NCJFCJ
John D. Etchemendy is the new director of the family violence and domestic relations program at the National Council of Juvenile and...
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4.6K► ReportsGirls in the Juvenile Justice System
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention uses data from three different national collections to provide a summary of the current...
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2.5KGuest Opinion EssaySummer Learning Should Be Nothing Like School: Use Thematic Curriculum
In light of high-stakes testing, children spend much of their in-school time listening to the teacher instruct whole group lessons and then...
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9.8KBook ReviewsOutstanding Insights About SEL in OST in Major Book
“Social and Emotional Learning in Out-of-School Time: Foundations and Futures” is the second volume in the “Current Issues in Out-of-School Time” series...
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4.0KGuest Opinion EssayGun Control Movement Experiencing Growing Pains
With the advent of March For Our Lives and the success of pro-gun control candidates in the 2018 midterm elections, today’s gun...
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3.8KNewsYouth Caught in Crosshairs of Cycles of Gun Violence. Is Anybody Listening?
Cassio Batteast, a community advocate in Jackson, recently sat down with 20 of the students in the local school district who were...
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2.9KNewsEx-juvenile Offender Finds Key to Stem Youth Crime: Give Kids Hope
Tommie Mabry was 12 when a bullet grazed him while he was burglarizing a home he thought was empty. It could have...
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1.9K► ReportsThe State of Preschool 2018
The National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) releases their annual report on state-funded preschool education across the nation. The report shows...
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2.9K► NewsmakersSherri Davis Chisholm is Urban Alliance’s First Detroit Executive Director
After the 2018 expansion of its youth employment initiatives into Detroit, Urban Alliance has announced that Sherri Davis Chisholm will be the...
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4.3KNewsFight Against Youth Homelessness Includes Host Homes, 100-day Challenges
Relly Brown was so destitute in 2016 they could not even get a room in the abandoned house on the corner of...
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6.3KGuest Opinion EssayHomeless LGBT Youth: How We Can Fight Their Invisibility, Including Youth of Color
Youth homelessness is a pervasive problem throughout the United States, and its rate has steadily risen over the years. According to the...
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3.2KNewsLGBTQ Youth in Foster Care See Higher Roadblocks Than Others in System
Foster youth who identify as LGBTQ face significantly more hurdles in their educational path, experiencing harassment, homelessness and depression at higher rates,...
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3.5KGuest Opinion EssayRight Relationships Crucial to Help Foster Youth Get Into, Through College
Having relationships with resourceful, knowledgeable individuals is important for the college success of young people with foster care histories. Put more simply,...
