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All posts tagged "gun violence"
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3.6KFrom the BureausTrauma Runs Through Gun Violence Among Black Youth, Researcher Says
Of all the threads of injustice, trauma is the common theme that contributes to a culture of gun violence for black youth...
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2.6K► ReportsSmart Investments for Safer Schools
The Center for American Progress takes a look at the different ways in which governments are allocating funds for school safety in...
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3.1KGuest Opinion EssayBaltimore Is Tackling the Problem of Youth Violence With Its Ceasefire Movement
Violence perpetrated by youth continues to have far-reaching costs for society: It contributes to injury, community dysfunction, poor physical and mental health,...
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1.9KGrantsHigh-School Youth Trauma Training Program Grants
Subject: Trauma, Education, Safety, Schools, School Shootings, Violence | Deadline: Aug. 27, 2018 | Amount: Up to $1,833,767
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2.1KGuest Opinion EssaySchool Shootings a Tiny Fraction of Violence That Menaces Youth
The best way to stop school violence is to stop all youth violence. School violence really is a form of youth violence....
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2.3KGuest Opinion EssayApplying Escalation Model to School Shootings Can Keep Everyone Safer
The tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018 reawakened our national terror of school shootings and renewed...
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3.0KFrom the BureausBrooklyn Students Use ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ to Explore Solutions to Gun Violence
It’s early evening on a warm Tuesday in March, and a handful of teenagers are commanding rapt attention in a corner of...
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2.5KFrom the BureausMarch for Our Lives Is Turning Point for Lifelong Activist, Energized Teen
The soon-to-be marchers, many of them teenagers, stood in the dark, shivering in the bitter cold, bracing against brutal winds howling off...
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3.1KNewsPhotos and Videos of March for Our Lives Around the U.S.
They came by the hundreds and thousands to Atlanta; Boston; Jacksonville, Florida; and New York: from babes in arms or strollers to...
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1.6KVideosIn Rural North Georgia and Southern California, Youth Leaders Talk Gun Control
With March for Our Lives rallies happening around the U.S. Saturday, March 24, Youth Today asked young leaders who participated in their...
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3.4KNewsStudents Walk Out to Protest Gun Violence in NY, Atlanta and LA
Thousands of students, administrators and teachers across the country walked out today to mark the one-month anniversary of the mass shooting at...
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2.1KNewsAtlanta High School Among Many Preparing for Walkout Linked to Parkland Shooting
Thousands of students, administrators and teachers across Georgia and the country are expected to walk out Wednesday for the one-month anniversary of...
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3.5KGuest Opinion EssayBlack Girls Pay the Price When Police Enter Schools
Sen. Marco Rubio sent a letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and Attorney General Jeff Sessions this week wrongly blaming the...
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3.6KFrom the BureausNY Students Quick to Throw Themselves Into March Organizing
It was late in the evening on Feb. 16 when Joey Wong’s flight from La Guardia Airport in New York City landed...
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3.5KFrom the BureausConey Island Teens Take First Steps Into Anti-violence Movement
Instead of hanging out, 35 Coney Island teenagers spent their midwinter vacation last week learning to cope with everyday trauma and avoid...
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2.6KFrom the BureausBoys & Girls Club Volunteer-Turned-Employee Says Listening to the Kids Is the Key
Wynter Parham, 29, is surrounded by teens in the kitchen at the Boys and Girls Club as she takes everyone’s cupcakes out...
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1.3KFrom the BureausGrim Anniversary of Gun Violence Against Children in Sandy Hook, New York City
On a cold, rainy early spring night in 2014, I attended the private meeting of a tragic club nobody wants to join....
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2.6KFrom the FieldIgniting 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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1.4KNewsAfter Dark Decade, Documentary Maker Sees Glimmer of Hope for Gun Control
If 20 murdered children in a small-town school could not change the debate, what would? “91%: A Film About Guns In America”...
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1.5KNewsA Message to Queer Youth in the Wake of Orlando
For some, the ubiquity and high frequency of mass shootings in the United States is nothing less than shocking. But many teens...
