Youth Today
All posts tagged "trauma"
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3.3KOpinionGraham SLAM Coaching Helps Older Youth in Care Launch Successfully
Young people in the child welfare system, most of whom have experienced trauma and frequent loss, have all the same capabilities as...
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2.6KOpinionWe Must Encourage Self-belief, Self-determination for Youth to Experience Post-traumatic Growth
The intriguing thing about human nature is that there is no one way to exist. Just recently, I was speaking with a...
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3.9KNewsTexas Report: Deportation Fear Hurts Health of Whole Immigrant Community
Punitive immigration policies create public health issues affecting entire communities, two advocacy groups say in a new report focusing on families in...
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2.1KGrantsHigh-School Youth Trauma Training Program Grants
Subject: Trauma, Education, Safety, Schools, School Shootings, Violence | Deadline: Aug. 27, 2018 | Amount: Up to $1,833,767
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2.2KOpinionSudden, Lasting Separation From Parent Can Permanently Alter Brain Development
At birth, the brain is the most underdeveloped organ in our body. It takes up until our mid-20s for our brains to...
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3.6KFrom the BureausTrauma of Her Violent Arrest Lingers, Even As Young New Yorker Beats the System
After it happened, the beating, the arrest, the sudden violence on the way to school, the high school sophomore wasn’t the same.
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7.5KOpinionParole Limited My Ability, but Community Led Me to Success
I got released from the system about five years ago now, and my life has remained a consistent hustle. When I was...
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4.8KOpinionOur Lives Are At Stake
I won’t let you fill me up anymore. Your hatred is toxic and time consuming You taught me to run away and...
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3.2KOpinionMentoring Programs Need to Experiment With What Works Best for Foster Youth
If you work with youth in foster care, you know that every child is unique with specific needs, strengths and opportunities. It...
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From the Bureaus
Los Angeles School District Fighting Trauma With Wellness Centers
It is the second-largest school district in the nation with more than 640,000 students enrolled. It spans more than 720 square miles,...
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5.4KOpinionHelp Crime Victims By Committing to Restorative Justice
From the federal level to state legislatures across the country, criminal justice reform measures are a hot topic of conversation and proposed...
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5.1KOpinionWhat Los Angeles Child Welfare Leader Bobby Cagle Could Learn from Mick Jagger
One of the problems with the whole child welfare debate is that we all say pretty much the same things — but...
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3.9KFrom the BureausConey Island Teens Take First Steps Into Anti-violence Movement
Instead of hanging out, 35 Coney Island teenagers spent their midwinter vacation last week learning to cope with everyday trauma and avoid...
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4.0KOpinionWe Must Stop the Rampant Criminalization of Youth with Disabilities
Minority youth are more likely to become incarcerated than white youth. This fact is so prevalent that even people outside the juvenile...
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2.3KOpinionHow to Teach the Most Challenging Youth to Problem Solve & Reduce Staff Injuries
Restrictive therapeutic facilities — inpatient psychiatry units, residential facilities, group homes and juvenile detention facilities — serve the most challenging youth in...
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2.7KOpinionHow Incarceration and Placements Affect Youths’ Mental Health
There’s been a lot of news about women abused by men in power lately, and I've been thinking about the girls I...
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2.4KNewsMindfulness, SEL: ‘Something Uniquely Human About That Ability to Connect and to Care’
Rick Alleva is a field specialist at the University of New Hampshire and co-author of a curriculum called “Courage to Care,” which...
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11.6KOpinionFight Burnout and Compassion Fatigue With Lots of Self-care Ideas
For years I have sought out with fierce determination conversations, books and articles such as this. Articles with titles like “5 Steps...
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6.6KOpinionChildren Suffer When a Parent Is Deported, Whether the Children Stay or Go
Between 2003 and 2013, an estimated 740,000 to 920,000 parents of children who are U.S. citizens were deported from the United States....
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Opinion
Sleep Deprivation May Hurt Low-income Youth of Color More, With Myriad Effects
Today we know that short sleep durations and sleepless nights have reached epidemic proportions in the United States. The Centers for Disease...
