Youth Today
All posts tagged "Feature Story"
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3.4K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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2.4K► 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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4.8K► 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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2.6KOpinionSummer 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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10.0KBook 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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4.1KOpinionGun 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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3.9KNewsYouth 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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2.0K► 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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3.0K► 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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4.4KNewsFight 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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6.5KOpinionHomeless 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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3.3KNewsLGBTQ 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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3.7KOpinionRight 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,...
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3.3KNewsRep. Lucy McBath, Other Leaders Talk About Working With Opportunity Youth of Color
Achieving equity in the U.S. starts with giving young people of color a level playing field, Rep. Lucy McBath says.
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1.9K► ReportsBehind the Asterisk*: Perspectives on Young Adult Mental Health from “Small and Hard-to-Reach” Communities
CLASP publishes findings on young adults' mental health from focus groups in "small and hard-to-reach" white rural; Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and...
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3.1K► NewsmakersDr. Aaron Kowalski Appointed President and CEO of JDRF
JDRF recently appointed leading international diabetes expert and advocate, Dr. Aaron J. Kowalski, Ph.D. as its president and CEO. He succeeds Derek Rapp who...
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1.8KOpinionRestorative Justice Can Give Kids the Power of Choice
“I’m too busy to volunteer,” I mumble to myself, and I know I’ve given the stink-eye to those perpetually busy do-gooder women...
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1.7KGrantsChild and Family Welfare Community-Based Program Grants
Subject: Child/Youth Welfare, Child Maltreatment, Family Support | Deadline: June 11, 2019 | Amount: $500,000 - $550,000
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4.0KOpinionHomeless Youth Don’t Realize How Much Legal Aid Can Help Them
Civil legal aid services are a necessary tool in preventing and eliminating youth homelessness. Though most young people do not initially identify...
