Youth Today
All posts tagged "out-of-school time and afterschool"
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2.5KNewsSchools, After-school Programs Join to Promote Social and Emotional Learning
When school starts this fall in Tulsa, Oklahoma, teachers and after-school staff will be working together in a new way. In five...
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1.7KGuest Opinion EssayThat’s Not Fair: Integrating Social Justice-based Learning in Out-of-School Time
Just three words … three simple, yet powerful words when spoken by one of our OST program participants. “That’s not fair!” What...
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1.4KGuest Opinion EssayFor Real Change, Training for Youth Professionals Needs to Go Way Beyond ‘One And Done’
I have been developing and facilitating workshops for a wide range of youth worker audiences for nearly two decades on...
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Early Childhood Education, After-School, Mentoring, Literacy, STEM and Job Training Program Grants
Subject: Education, Afterschool, Mentoring, Literacy, STEM, Job Training | Deadline: Jan. 15, 2017
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2.3KNewsHouse Subcommittee Funds Federal After-school Program Despite Trump’s Call to Kill It
Chris Neitzey breathed a sigh of relief this week. He and other advocates of after-school and summer learning programs have been on...
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1.7KNewsSummer Learning Day Inspires Innovative Ways to Showcase Summer Learning
Young and old readers of “Charlotte’s Web” won’t soon forget the trip that Charlotte the spider and Wilbur the pig made to...
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1.1KNewsSeven Tepees Stays With Kids 7 Years to Support School Success
Twenty-two years ago, a retired juvenile court judge in San Francisco teamed up with a Native American healer to help kids get...
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1.9KNewsPeacebuilders Camp Focuses on Human Rights, Relationships
On a hot July day last year, a group of middle-school kids at a summer camp in southwest Georgia grappled with some...
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3.1KNews21st Century After-school Programs Connect Kids to Careers, Advocates Tell Congress
Colby Holmes, a recent high school graduate from the small town of New Hope, Alabama, found himself on Capitol Hill this week....
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3.5KGuest Opinion EssayEffective Financial Literacy: What Youths Need to Know, When They Need to Know It
Almost 20 percent of all young people around age 15 are not financially literate — they don’t have skills like budgeting income...
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2.1KNewsIn Washington, D.C., Who’s Minding the Kids?
On June 7, after-school organizations across the county will send representatives to Capitol Hill to talk about the value of their program...
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12.5KGuest Opinion EssayTwo Interconnecting Puzzle Pieces: Trauma-Informed Approach and Restorative Justice
The trauma-informed approach focuses on the same principle, and brings the neuroscience to understand the behaviors that restorative justice is looking to...
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1.5KNewsCommunity Organizations Play a Big Role in Raising Graduation Rates, Advocates Say
Nonprofit leaders working to raise the nation’s high school graduation rate say it’s an economic imperative, and they say out-of-school-time (OST) partners...
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1.9KNewsBeyond the Cities: Closing the Gap in Rural Areas
Earlier this year, students in the High Desert Leapin’ Lizards after-school program in Kern County, California, got a glimpse of life on...
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1.2KGuest Opinion EssayOpportunity, Not Capacity: Partnering So Vulnerable Kids Cut Through the Clutter and Succeed
This year, more than 90 percent of children attended public school in the United States. That staggering percentage represents 50 million elementary...
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2.1KNewsMentors & Change Makers: Meet Some of the People Working to Bring Opportunity to Kids
As the gap between the nation’s poorest and wealthiest citizens has grown during the past four decades, so has the gulf in...
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1.5KNewsCuts in 21st Century Learning Centers Could Drastically Hurt Mississippi, Leaders Say
Some youth-serving organizations in Mississippi are holding their breaths. They’re waiting to see whether $14 million dries up. That’s the amount currently...
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1.6KNewsThank a Youth Worker Day: Self-renewal Important for Those Who Champion Kids, Nonprofit Founder Says
The executive director of ProAct, an Indianapolis nonprofit, works with kids ages 10 to 18 to connect them with community projects so...
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2.2KGuest Opinion EssaySkill-building Is Only One Piece of the Puzzle in Tech-Training Program NPower
Stephon Stephens didn’t think he would get in. At 21, he was used to applying to jobs and programs that wouldn’t look...
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3.0KFrom the BureausFear of Deportation Leads to Rise in Mental Health Symptoms Among Youth
For 17-year-old Alejandro, dealing with anxiety has been a normal part of teenage life.
