Youth Today
All posts tagged "OST Reporting Project"
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761NewsAfterschool program expanded to help Latino families during the pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has upended the lives of young people and the programs that serve them, but some out-of-school time organizations have...
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1.4KGuest Opinion EssayDepartment of Education, act now to empower youth experiencing homelessness
Throughout my final years of high school and college, I was homeless and on my own, without a parent or guardian to...
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2.1KNewsGeorgia aims to keep more kids out of foster care with new specialist teams
Georgia plans to launch a new program this summer intended to prevent children from entering the foster care system. The $1.5 million...
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1.6K► ReportsStudy: Drug use less common, more deadly among teens during pandemic
Published today in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), Trends in Drug Overdose Deaths Among US Adolescents, January 2010 to June...
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1.9KNewsQ&A: Rep. Rosa DeLauro on the fight for afterschool funding and the child tax credit
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, a Democrat from Connecticut and the chair of the House Appropriations Committee, has long been hailed as an afterschool...
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1.8KNewsThese Tulsa high school students are part of the nation’s cyber-defense plan
In a classroom at Will Rogers High School, across the street from the University of Tulsa’s campus, 16-year old Bernardo Bustos is...
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1.7KNewsCongress approves more afterschool funding, but advocates say it isn’t enough
Afterschool advocates welcomed a $30 million federal spending boost for out-of-school time programs they say will benefit 30,000 additional children a year,...
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1.2KNewsDetroit schools aim to catch up, and then some, with US aid
The Detroit school system is putting much of its relief money toward tutoring, after-school programs and other efforts to shore up student...
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1.4KNewsUnderstaffing leaves afterschool programs with unmet demand
School-based providers list difficulties hiring and retaining staff as the biggest reasons they have not fully rebounded from pandemic shutdowns and they...
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1.6KNewsWhat happens when all the student volunteers disappear?
Across the U.S., the pandemic forced school administrators to slash or eliminate student volunteer requirements. Students either abandoned volunteering or strained to...
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1.7KNewsHow teaching city kids to farm paid off for this Texas community
An Austin nonprofit with farms on two plots of land working with young people to grow fruits and vegetables increased its production...
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2.0KFrom the BureausQ&A: Exalt’s Gisele Castro on the importance of New York’s “raise the age” law
Exalt is a nonprofit in New York City. Giselle Castro talks about Exalt's work and their "raise the age" efforts. They work...
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2.7KNewsA struggling Mississippi school district leans on afterschool programming
When the pandemic hit Jackson, Mississippi, the ongoing challenge to keep teenagers in high school got even harder. As the economic impacts...
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5.1KNewsQ&A: UPenn Prof. Dorothy Roberts makes the case for abolishing the child welfare system
For Dorothy Roberts, a scholar of race and gender at the University of Pennsylvania law school, there is nothing well-meaning or compassionate...
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1.5KNewsOklahoma basketball team launches afterschool program to teach data, analytics to Black youth
The students, known as Thunder Fellows, are part of the inaugural class of an afterschool program founded in the wake of the...
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1.3KNewsEducators skeptical of states’ plans to solve staffing shortages with bureaucrats, troops
At least three states have called on public employees or National Guard troops to fill in as substitute teachers, bus drivers and...
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2.4KFrom the BureausQ&A: Girls Inc.’s Stephanie Hull on fast-tracking virtual support during the pandemic
When Stephanie Hull was a kid, long before she became the CEO of Girls Inc., a national organization aimed at helping young...
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1.9KNewsQ&A: Karen Pittman on her next chapter and how the pandemic opened minds
Karen Pittman has been at the forefront of youth development for nearly 50 years, championing a whole-child approach to learning that goes...
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2.0KNewsGeorgia Pre-K teachers to get two more $1,000 bonuses
State-funded prekindergarten and child care teachers in Georgia will get two more rounds of $1,000 bonuses paid from federal coronavirus aid.
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2.9KNewsMonths after pandemic aid lapsed, former foster youth struggling
Not long after the federal government passed a pandemic relief package last December to help former foster youth struggling to make ends...
