Youth Today
All posts tagged "Feature Story"
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3.1KOpinionFoster Youth: Campus, Community Interventions Hold Great Potential to Impact Their College Graduation Rates
With growing awareness of the challenges young people with experience in foster care face in accessing and completing college, it is more...
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8.3KNewsHomelessness Still High Among Foster Youth Adopted, Reunited With Families, Report Finds
A surprising link between youth homelessness and foster care emerged today from a research project at the University of Chicago’s Chapin Hall....
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1.6K► ReportsLeaving No One Behind: All Children Immunized and Healthy
UNICEF recently released this report highlighting the tremendous progress of worldwide vaccination coverage efforts over the past three decades. However, now this...
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5.7KOpinionTo Solve Youth Homelessness We Must Make Race Part of the Equation
In June 2015, Houston declared the end of veteran homelessness and turned its focus to ending youth homelessness by 2020.
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2.9KFrom the BureausBrooklyn Students, NYPD Work Together on Their Neighborhoods
Dana Rachlin and other activists around juvenile justice have been waiting a long time for the city to limit police involvement in...
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3.3K► NewsmakersSuzanne McCormick to Be New U.S. President of United Way Worldwide
Suzanne McCormick will be the new U.S. president of United Way Worldwide after ten years leading United Way's Portland and Tampa Offices....
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2.6KOpinionStrengthening Social and Emotional Learning of OST Staff Is Better for Youth
Social and emotional learning (SEL) is all the rage when it comes to supporting youth and young adults. But what about staff...
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4.0KOpinionUsing Strengths Framework Helps Foster Youth Achieve Their Higher Education Goals
Youth in foster care have educational aspirations much like youth who have not been in care, with 70-80% of foster youth reporting...
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2.9KOpinionYouth Homelessness Must Be Made Visible Through Systems Collaboration
Youth experiencing homelessness are frequently described as hidden or invisible. The thought is that they are challenging to identify as they do...
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2.0K► ReportsA Quality Education for Every Child: A New Agenda for Education Policy
The Center for American Progress lays out a comprehensive plan as a guide for the next administration to improve the quality and...
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3.8KFrom the BureausGroup Seeks to End ICE Collaborations With Local Law Enforcement
Sitting cross-legged on the pavement, his right arm locked into a bright blue painted tire weighed down by cement and blocking the...
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1.6KOpinionSummer Programming Is Good Opportunity to Teach Cultural Sensitivity
Kyle Kashuv, a conservative, Jewish student who survived the Parkland, Fla., school shooting, made headlines because his admission to Harvard University was...
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2.4KFrom the BureausNew York Theater Stages ‘Antigone in Ferguson’
The Greek play “Antigone” tells the story of a defiant woman sentenced to death by a king who refuses to practice mercy....
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3.8KNewsWallace Report: Cities Provide Lessons on Data Management in After-school Systems
Eight U.S. cities worked to develop and manage data in their citywide after-school systems over four years. A look back at their...
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1.2KGrantsDisadvantaged Urban Student Education and Human Services Program Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Race/Ethnicity, Minority Students, Human Services | Amount: Up to $450,000 | Deadline: July 26, 2019
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2.5K► ReportsSustainability of Supportive Housing for Families in the Child Welfare System
The Urban Institute evaluates the effectiveness and sustainability of providing housing and services to high-need families in the child welfare system. The...
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2.7KNewsFamilies Move From the Shadows to Power in West Phoenix
When someone broke into Viri Hernandez’s West Phoenix home in 2012, she called the police. But she quickly realized the officers who...
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1.9KFrom the BureausNew York City Bill That Would Tweak Gang Database Gets Heated Hearing
In the early morning hours of April 27, 2016, Kraig Lewis was up late studying for his statistics final. A graduate student...
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2.6KOpinionAfter-school Programming Strengthens Career Exploration
Youth need to participate in active learning opportunities that cultivate their interests and promote positive growth. Youth also need educational experiences that...
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2.5KNewsAtlanta Expert Says ‘Great Gun Divide’ Can Suffocate Safety Lessons
Guns are everywhere you think they’re not. Guns have been found on the floor of a movie theater and in the diaper...
