All posts tagged "Youth Development"

Youth Orchestra in New York Hits the Right Note

NEW YORK — It was a Friday afternoon in November when schoolchildren carrying orchestra instruments arrived with their parents in the auditorium of...

The Mentoring Effect: Young People’s Perspectives on the Outcomes and Availability of Mentoring

Evidence-Based Practices for Children, Youth, and Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Low-Income Families and the Cost of Child Care: State Child Care Subsidies, Out-of-Pocket Expenses and the Cliff Effect

‘Those Kinds of Kids’: Meeting the Needs of LGBTQ Youth of Color Charged with Status Offenses

Jay is a 16-year-old black lesbian. [Editor’s Note: “Jay” is based on a composite of real stories of LGBTQ youth garnered during...

Course to Focus on Mentoring in the Digital Age

  Photo by canuzuner / iStock / Thinkstock Social media has forever altered the landscape of communications between adult mentors and their young mentees....

Children As Givers: Teaching Kids and Teens to be Philanthropic

April 20, 2010. People around the world were glued to their TV’s as hundreds of millions of gallons of oil gushed into...

In This Together: The Hidden Cost of Young Adult Unemployment

Computing and Engineering in Afterschool

Out-of-school Time Programs Boost Students’ Computing, Engineering Skills

In the Growing Up Thinking Scientifically after-school program based in Santa Fe, N.M., students design, create and test computer models to examine...

The Comeback and Coming-from-Behind States: An Update on Youth Incarceration in the United States

Fathers’ Involvement With Their Children: United States, 2006–2010

National Standards for the Care of Youth Charged with Status Offenses

Youth Civic Development & Education

Key Findings: Trends in the Parent-Report of Health Care Provider-Diagnosis and Medication Treatment for ADHD: United States, 2003 – 2011

The Nation’s Report Card: U.S. States in a Global Context

The First Eight Years: Giving Kids a Foundation for Lifetime Success

Has Education Paid Off for Black Workers?

Something to Say: Success Principles for Afterschool Arts Programs From Urban Youth and Other Experts

Sports-Related Concussions in Youth: Improving the Science, Changing the Culture