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All posts tagged "OST Reporting Project"
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1.3KNewsKey to Gaining COVID Relief Funding: Partner with Schools Now, Nonprofit Leader Says
School districts around the nation will receive $122 billion through the American Rescue Plan Act to help safely reopen schools and support...
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1.5KNewsIowa Community Coalition Aims to Improve Child Literacy
AFRICA STUDIO/SHUTTERSTOCK As the saying goes, reading is fundamental. And in Ames, Iowa, a coalition of 29 organizations has been working for...
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4.3KGuest Opinion EssayFormer Foster Youth Eligible for American Rescue Plan Tax Credits
The passage of the American Rescue Plan has changed that -- at least for one year. Young adults who are working but...
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2.0KNewsGeorgia STEM Program Helps Girls Soar to New Horizons
An imaginary elf sits on top of a drone, zipping through “Santa’s Workshop.” The aircraft bobs between snowmen, a giant nutcracker, and...
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2.3KGuest Opinion EssayTop 10 Tips to Deepen Social-Emotional Learning in Your Virtual After-School Program and Align it to the School Day
With fewer resources and increased constraints, program facilitators and educators are now tasked with rising to the occasion of providing high-quality experiences...
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2.4KNewsSummer Programs for Kids Will Use Multiple Strategies to Cut COVID-19 Risk
What will summer programs for kids look like this year? With vaccinations increasing but with COVID-19 still a danger, organizers of summer...
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2.2KGuest Opinion EssayMarginalized Youth Need Real Change in Schools, Courts, Other Systems
Black and brown students are caught in a system that does not educate or rehabilitate them. We punish them for their failure...
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3.6KNewsEffective Tutoring: Out-of-school Time Providers Need To Know What Works
In the coming months, after-school and summer learning programs will be partnering with schools to address learning loss in the pandemic. Tutoring will...
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2.7KNewsAmerican Rescue Plan Gives Out-of-school Time Programs Big Role in Pandemic Recovery,OST Reporting Project
The latest COVID-19 relief package, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, includes a huge chunk of money to benefit young people. Of...
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3.6KGuest Opinion EssayASFA’s Timelines Are Horrible For Children But Another Part Of The Law Is Even Worse
“ASFA has been responsible for the massive destruction of black and brown families. More than 2 million children’s parents’ rights have been...
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2.3KNewsSurvey: Pandemic Slashed Sports For Low-income Youth
Sports programs serving low-income communities have seen a big drop in youth participation because of the pandemic, according to a survey of...
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1.8KGuest Opinion EssayThree Relationships Kids Need During Pandemic And Into Recovery
This time last year, I was in New Orleans for a child and youth well-being summit. Mardi Gras was over and leaders...
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1.5KNewsCitywide After-school Systems Are Sustaining Themselves, Report Finds
Citywide after-school systems have staying power, according to a recent comparison of U.S. city systems in 2013 and 2020. “More than three-quarters of...
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2.5KGuest Opinion EssayHow Human Connections Can Save Our Youth
A crisis is when a non-common negative occurrence increases in trend and frequency. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic there seems...
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4.9KGuest Opinion EssayBelieve in Yourself, Not the Statistics
I was in foster care for 14 years. I was in 10 different foster homes and two different group homes. I represent...
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3.1KNewsCOVID Relief Bill Would Reduce Child Poverty, Aid Youth Programming
COVID relief funding from the federal government, if passed into law, will make a historic reduction in child poverty and could also...
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2.5KNewsWhy Teenage Christian Picciolini Joined, Then Quit White Power Movement
Christian Picciolini, 14, was hanging out one day in an alley near the intersection of Union and Division streets in Chicago. An older...
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2.0KNewsToolkit Can Help OST Workers Band Together to Respond to Hate Messages
RUSSIAN FEDERATION/SHUTTERSTOCK What do you do if you find racist graffiti on a wall near your school or youth program? Or come...
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2.5KNewsWhen Hate Groups Recruit Youth: Teacher, Former White Nationalist Tell How to Counter It
Nora Flanagan’s first brush with hate group recruiting took place when she was 15 and living in Beverly, a southwest Chicago neighborhood....
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3.2KGuest Opinion EssayWhen the Product Is Poor People’s Kids, It’s Always a Bull Market
A new study from the Children’s Bureau in the federal Department of Health and Human Services reveals some shocking findings. It turns...
