There’s hardly a youth worker or parent who isn’t concerned about the growing number of early and sometimes severe diagnoses of anxiety,...
For Tada’s Youth Ensemble, Theater Serves as a Bridge to Adulthood
In the past several decades, the United States has seen a significant drop in the adolescent pregnancy rate: from 116.9 pregnancies per...
Subject: Child Welfare, Health, Access to Food, Food/Nutrition, Youth Development, Community Development | Deadline: Jan 15, 2016
Sending kids who habitually miss school to court under the state’s 20-year truancy law hasn’t helped them stay in school. But a...
How can we expect young people who are worried about where they will sleep that night, where their next meal will come...
I go to the local Boys and Girls Club every Monday afternoon to pick up Amanda (children’s names have been changed) for...
We’re entering a remarkable age of a new understanding about why we behave the way we do and how to change those...
Everyone wants our youth to succeed academically — perhaps none more so than those of us who have dedicated our lives to...
Subject: Community Development, Environmental Education, Youth Development, Civic Engagement | Deadline: Feb. 1, 2016
“We are more than six years into the so-called [recession] recovery, yet millions of Americans continue to struggle with finding a good-paying...
The year before we opened our charter school in St. Louis, another one had closed. It was a school for dropouts, ages...
Subject: Juvenile Justice, Reentry, Youth Development | Deadline: Jan. 4, 2016
Do out-of-school time STEM programs really lead kids into science careers? The Chicago Museum of Science and Industry plans to find out.
Children who participate in Doc Wayne’s Chalk Talk program are most often survivors of complex trauma. According to the National Alliance on...
Subject: Youth Development, Arts Education, Education | Deadline: Nov. 20, 2015
This new report from ChildTrends sheds light on the often-undiscussed result of mass incarceration; how it affects the children of those in...
The top three social media sites used by Atlanta teens are Kik, Instagram and Snapchat, according to a survey by VOX Teen...
On Thursday, kids enrolled in after-school programs through a Washington, District of Columbia, parks and recreation department were exposed to pink slime...
The 16th annual Lights On Afterschool event is a chance for programs to show off all they’ve accomplished, through science shows, dance...