Youth Today
All posts tagged "race ethnicity and gender"
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2.2K► NewsmakersMaheen Kaleem is New Deputy Director of Grantmakers for Girls of Color
Grantmakers for Girls of Color (G4GC) recently announced Maheen Kaleem as its new deputy director.
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2.8K► ReportsNational Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health 2020
The Trevor Project releases the second annual National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health.
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818From the Bureaus17 Rikers Workers to Be Disciplined for Transgender Woman’s Death in Solitary
The New York City Department of Corrections will discipline 17 officers for their conduct surrounding the death of 27-year-old Layleen Polanco, a...
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1.7K► ReportsFostering Inequity: How COVID-19 Amplifies Dangers For LGBTQ+ Youth in Care
This new report from Children's Rights details how the COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating already difficult situations for LGBTQ+ youth in care facilities...
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1.7K► ReportsThe Land of Inopportunity: Closing the Childhood Equity Gap for America’s Kids
Save the Children releases the first-ever comprehensive child welfare and development rankings of all U.S. counties.
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2.7KNewsRole of Guns Not Tracked For LGBT Community
Today, Synthia Roy works at a tattoo parlor in Jacksonville, Fla., she does set design and makeup for horror films and recently...
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2.5KNewsHead of Florida Center That Helps Girls ‘in Trouble’ Stepping Down
She’s credited with being a “visionary,” “a role model” and a literal life-saver for some of the most vulnerable girls and young...
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1.5K► ReportsSuicidality Disparities by Sexual Identity Persist from Adolescence into Young Adulthood
The Trevor Project tracks rates of suicidality among LGB youth after turning 18, showing that the stark suicide disparity between straight and...
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3.2KNewsCYFD Forging Ahead With Native American Court, Kinship Care
It’s nearing the close of normal business hours on a Wednesday afternoon at the Albuquerque, N.M., offices of the Children, Youth and...
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3.6KNewsNative American Court to Run Under Bigger Concept of Family
It’s already tough sledding for New Mexico children and families in the state’s fractured foster care and child welfare systems. Those challenges...
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6.3K► ReportsRing the Alarm: The Crisis of Black Youth Suicide in America
The Congressional Black Caucus releases a troubling report quantifying and discussing the recent sharp rise in suicide rates among black youth, a...
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3.4K► ReportsAtlanta Youth Count: The Prevalence of Sex and Labor Trafficking Among Homeless Youth in Metro Atlanta
Researchers from Georgia State University surveyed homeless youth around Atlanta to create a comprehensive overview of their experiences, particularly in regard to...
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2.4KNewsLGBTQ, Traumatized Homeless Youth More Vulnerable to Being Trafficked: Report
Understanding how homeless youth are trafficked is important information for the organizations offering them services.
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1.9K► ReportsWhen Is a School Segregated? Making Sense of Segregation 65 Years after Brown v. Board of Education
A new research report from the Urban Institute develops a more effective metric for determining the extent of school segregation within the...
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1.6K► ReportsCharter School Effects on School Segregation
The Urban Institute takes a comprehensive look at the effect of the growth of charter schools on racial segregation in school systems....
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2.2K► ReportsTrends in Suicide Among Youth Aged 10 to 19 Years in the U.S., 1975-2016
This new report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) summarizes and discusses the startling recent uptick in youth...
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2.5K► ReportsToxic Stress and Children’s Outcomes
The Economic Policy Institute shows how toxic stress in a child's life, which is disproportionately experienced by African American children, can disrupt...
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2.4K► ReportsEliminating Racial Disparities in Maternal and Infant Mortality
The Center for American Progress provides a policy framework seeking to eliminate the stark and troubling racial disparities in maternal and infant...
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4.6K► ReportsGirls in the Juvenile Justice System
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention uses data from three different national collections to provide a summary of the current...
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1.8K► Reports$23 Billion – The Disparity in Funding Between White and Nonwhite School Districts
EdBuild breaks down the troubling numbers behind the disparity in funding between predominantly white and predominantly nonwhite school districts around the nation.
