Youth Today
All posts tagged "out-of-school time and afterschool"
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2.6KNewsSummer Enrichment Out of Reach for Millions of Families
The number of kids taking part in structured summer activities has grown steadily over the past 15 years, but that growth has...
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1.1KNewsAnother COVID Side Effect: Many Kids Head to Summer School
With her three teenagers vaccinated against COVID-19, Aja Purnell-Mitchell left it up to them to decide whether to go back to school...
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1.4KNewsCounselors: No ‘Quick Fix’ to Repairing Damage of Pandemic Year
Wendy Mallis was proud to be the first person in her family to go to college, but she never expected that she...
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1.1KNewsNew Mexico Summer Programs for Youth Include New Internships
As many as 2,600 students across New Mexico could participate in the internship program, according to the Public Education Department, which announced...
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1.4KFrom the BureausMental Health Cuts in Poorest New York City Schools Amid Pandemic
As the pandemic raged across New York City in spring 2020, Jose Rivera trekked from the Bronx to Coney Island, Brooklyn to...
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1.9KNewsVirtual Prom Shows How Pandemic Challenges Can Spur Creative Solutions
From choosing a theme to booking the DJs, planning a virtual prom during a pandemic offered one group of Baltimore-area high schoolers...
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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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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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2.4KNewsSummer 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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2.1KNewsDisability Service Providers Get Creative As Pandemic Threatens Programs
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit last year, Wichita, Kansas, nurse Heather McFann was at a loss as to what to do for...
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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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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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1.6KNewsCitywide 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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3.2KNewsCOVID 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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2.6KNewsWhen 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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2.4KNewsAtlanta Nonprofit Teaches ‘Storytelling,’ Provides Pathway to Film, Digital Work
In Atlanta, the center of the South’s burgeoning film industry, a small nonprofit is bringing digital media and film-making skills to young...
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2.9KNewsMore Apprenticeships For Young People on Horizon If Federal Legislation Passes
MONKEYBUSINESSIMAGES/SHUTTERSTOCK Apprenticeship programs could soon expand in the United States, opening up more pathways for young people to earn while they learn....
