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How to Help ‘People’ People Interpret and Use Data

Walking into our monthly meeting for preventive services program management, we couldn’t miss the giant chart with numerous hand-written lines of different...

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Cultivating Leaders: Scaffolding Successful Youth Outcomes with Strong Staff Supports

Holding hands, seven young people stood in a circle doing final breathing exercises before their entrance onto the stage — the culmination...

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Family Design Resources Offers Pennsylvania’s Legal Services Initiative Model to Other States

Sandra Bachelder is a paralegal for Pennsylvania’s Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network Legal Services Initiative (LSI). For a big part of her...

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Grief Support for Children and Teens: Play, Share, Mourn

Teen girls taking a chance climbing a telephone pole belayed by their friends, a 14-year-old learning to ride a bike, children visiting...

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Passion and Community: How Justice-involved Youth Are Helping Peers Outside Their Walls

“Tell me about a time you made a mistake.”

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Youth Helping Youth: ServiceWorks VISTAs Reflect on 9/11 and Serving Their Generation

To kick off its third year, ServiceWorks – a youth development program from AmeriCorps, the Citi Foundation and Points of Light –...

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Igniting a Passion: Newark Youth Take On Gun Violence

High school sophomores and juniors were challenged to apply the communication, project management and community mapping skills they’d learned in ServiceWorks to...

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Unify a Fragmented Profession: A Conversation About the OST Workforce

Ellen Gannett is director of the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST) at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College. NIOST...

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School-age Care and OST: A Conversation About the OST Workforce

Tony Streit, principal investigator for National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment spoke with Youth Today’s Resource Hub editor Sara Hill about...

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Earn to Learn: A Teen’s Job Is to Do Well in School

Young people commit — in writing — to a grade they will earn for each class. The better they perform, the higher...

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Partnering with Schools Reduces Hunger Among School Kids and Families

Hunger in America is not so much a lack of access to food; it’s a lack of access to nutrition. School-based programs...

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What Lessons Have You Learned From the Kids You Work With?

As we gear up for summer programming, camp directors and staff who attended the American Camp Association conference in Atlanta last week...

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Unaccompanied No More: Family Mediation and Preservation First

How can we expect young people who are worried about where they will sleep that night, where their next meal will come...

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Youth Impact: High School Students Lead Substance Abuse Prevention Efforts

As part of National Substance Abuse Prevention Month, peer educators and adult supporters at GUIDE in Georgia speak up about the impact...

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Using Online App to Implement Each One Teach One

Our 100 Peace Builder teens’ reach of 4,000 of their peers and some adults through connection circles taught me that “each one...

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Youth Document Their Communities Through Photo Essays

Who better to describe what it’s like growing up in San Francisco’s so-called underbelly than the young people who live there?

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Incorporating More Youth Voice into Our Work

We have found running our national youth advisory board to be essential to our work.

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Finding Hope: Shepherding Un(der) Documented Students to a Thriving Life After High School

Mason faces underlying and persistent tribulation most of his peers don’t: his citizenship status and the legal, financial and psychological barriers that...