Sports programs serving low-income communities have seen a big drop in youth participation because of the pandemic, according to a survey of...
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...
COVID relief funding from the federal government, if passed into law, will make a historic reduction in child poverty and could also...
Christian Picciolini, 14, was hanging out one day in an alley near the intersection of Union and Division streets in Chicago. An older...
Nora Flanagan’s first brush with hate group recruiting took place when she was 15 and living in Beverly, a southwest Chicago neighborhood....
Youth Participatory Evaluation (YPE) is the involvement of young people in monitoring and evaluation practices and processes, including planning, data collection, analysis...
In 2013, while I was in college at the University of Arizona based in Tucson, I had the opportunity to participate in...
In Philadelphia and in cities across the country, thousands of youth are engaged in purposeful internships, summer work programs and OST programs...
In Atlanta, the center of the South’s burgeoning film industry, a small nonprofit is bringing digital media and film-making skills to young...
MONKEYBUSINESSIMAGES/SHUTTERSTOCK Apprenticeship programs could soon expand in the United States, opening up more pathways for young people to earn while they learn....
Not long after graduating from Lakeside High School in Atlanta, Yabsira Gebrewubet found himself working at a Publix grocery store in the...
Throughout our work in youth programs and critical educational spaces, we have witnessed how educators, mentors and facilitators committed to liberatory learning...
Across the nation, states are tightening their belts as the pandemic cuts into their budgets. Some are feeling a financial shock similar...
In 2020, Tom Fandre had hoped to place at least 90 foster youth in internships in the Silicon Valley area. But when...
For many kids, this is all they know. Their entire lives have been defined by unrelenting, unprecedented times. Today’s kids are growing...
Making relationships a focus of federal policy is long overdue given that decades of research have shown that relationships are the critical...
During distance learning youth can feel disconnected from their educators, their peers and the content of what they are learning. Service learning...
SEVENTYFOUR/SHUTTERSTOCK Growing up in San Jose, California, I had some amazing experiences with law enforcement that I can say likely made a...
DOTSHOCK/SHUTTERSTOCK (Part 2 of 2) In 2019, I wrote a chapter called “Rooted in Scarcity and Deficit: Time to Reconsider the Funding Process”...
As the world around us continues to feel like it’s spinning off its axis, one of the best things we can do...