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All posts tagged "homelessness and OST project"
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5.4KNewsAfter-school Providers Can Assist Kids Experiencing Homelessness
As the pandemic continues, the number of people experiencing homelessness could rise — especially if eviction moratoriums are lifted. More children in...
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2.1KNewsMontana Nonprofit Helps School District Graduate High Percentage Of Homeless Students
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of several articles in an occasional series about the intersection of OST and students experiencing homelessness.)...
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2.3KNewsOut-of-school Time Activities a Vital Part Of Oklahoma School For Homeless Students
Positive Tomorrows is among only a few schools in the nation, including the Monarch School in San Diego and the Boyce Ansley...
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2.0KNewsSocial Emotional Learning Critical In Atlanta School For Homeless Kids
For those children who have had traumatic experiences, a safe and respectful environment is a basic need. It has to be created...
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2.3KGuest Opinion EssayYouth Themselves Must Help Design Supports To Protect Them From Homelessness
There are policies and practices that have been proven to work for communities that embrace them. Adopting such measures need not be...
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2.3KGuest Opinion EssayTo Work On Youth Homelessness, Brainstorming, Decision Analysis Strong Tools
Generating alternatives is key to effective decision-making because it provides the decision-makers in a collective body with an array of choices from...
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1.7KNewsIndianapolis Schools, Partners Setting Up Hubs For Homeless Students, Other Needy Families
When a school district goes virtual, what happens to homeless students? School often provides them stability and a place to access resources...
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2.5KGuest Opinion EssayYouth Homelessness Is a Symptom, Not a Cause
SERIES: PART 5 OF 7 Part 1: How Do We Make Youth Homelessness Effort Bipartisan? Part 2: America’s Biases Marginalize Youth, Drive Them to...
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2.0KGuest Opinion EssaySo, How Does This Collective Decision-making Work?
We described in the previous column how the approach is four-tiered, beginning with collaboration. Collaboration is a term that has been bantered...
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3.7KNewsFormerly Homeless Youth Urge Congress to Act During Pandemic
When Han Johnson thinks about her younger self, she wonders how she would have survived the COVID-19 pandemic during high school. It’s...
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2.0KGuest Opinion EssayCollective Decision-making Can Neutralize Politics of Fear
Judge Teske first used collective decision-making beginning in 2003 to reform his local juvenile justice system, which has netted an 80% decline...
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3.5KGuest Opinion EssayAmerica’s Biases Marginalize Youth, Drive Them to Homelessness
Social psychology has found that someone may decide someone else's behavior has one of two causes: dispositional or situational. Dispositional attribution assigns...
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2.2KGuest Opinion EssayHow Do We Make Youth Homelessness Effort Bipartisan?
4.2 million. That’s the number of homeless youths in America every year. This opinion piece is about the 4.2 million, how and why...
