Youth Today
All posts tagged "youth homelessness"
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530► ReportsThe role of state policy in supporting students experiencing homelessness and former foster youth in higher education
By offering tuition exemptions and services, states can remove barriers for homeless/foster youth.
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1.1KNews‘The kids everyone forgot’: The faltering post-pandemic push to reengage teens and young adults not in school, college, or the workforce
Do we need more than job-training? Adding social-emotional support to reconnection programs could help.
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725NewsEveryday Hero: Georgia couple’s nonprofit uplifts students through art, community service
ARTportunity Knocks serves schools across Atlanta, providing arts programming and dinner to students.
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712NewsRebuilding after Helene and Milton: Educators share experiences from previous disasters
Reestablishing kids’ routines is essential to making them feel safe.
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2.6KNews8,000 foster youth in California may have nowhere to go as early as September 30
Nonprofit's Insurance Alliance recently announced it's refusing to offer foster family agencies liability insurance.
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1.2KNewsFormer foster youth are eligible for federal housing aid. Georgia isn’t helping them get it.
Georgia has only applied for and received eight federal housing aid vouchers since 2019.
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1.2KNewsTexas politics leave transgender foster youth isolated — during and after life in state care
LGBTQ+ foster kid support vanished; silence blankets the agency tasked with raising LGBTQ+ children.
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1.4KNewsYouth shelters lock out hundreds of NYC youth and migrants
The migrant crisis is increasingly intertwined with the rapidly rising number of homeless youth.
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2.2KGuest Opinion EssayNewsom’s aboutface raises homelessness risks for California’s oldest foster care youth
Newsom proposed a budget completely eliminating essential increases in funding for housing and services.
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Gas, food, lodging for homeless students in jeopardy as funding deadline looms
Once those funds expire, many will be scrambling to keep serving families in crisis.
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1.6KNewsAtlanta homeless youth program helps students attend college
Jay Lee is an 23-year-old Atlanta native and college student. And Lee is homeless.
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2.2K► Podcasts‘Home was never a place’: One woman’s life in WA foster care
Janell Braxton, 30, continues to reckon with her time in the foster system.
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2.4KNewsKids face the greatest risk of eviction of any age group. The consequences can last a lifetime.
A recent study found 2.9 million children are impacted by eviction filings every year.
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1.8K► PodcastsWashington’s new youth homelessness ‘Lifeline’ service lags
Washington’s new youth homelessness ‘Lifeline’ service lags.
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3.6KNewsCalifornia’s Wiyot Tribe gets land back and builds foster youth housing
As homelessness rises, the Wiyot are ensuring youth have "a place to call home."
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2.5KNewsCan affordable housing make the “low-pay, low-opportunity” afterschool field fairer for workers?
“Workers in these spaces are undervalued,” said University of Minnesota professor Dale Blyth.
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3.2KNewsHomeless LGBTQ youth risk discrimination and harassment when seeking help
LGBTQ youth are disproportionately homeless, facing unique challenges in finding affirming shelter.
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2.4KGuest Opinion EssayFrom the mouth of babes: Letting young people lead us to a new vision of justice
To create positive change we must listen to the people impacted by juvenile justice.
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2.3KNewsReport: Fewer teens in foster care, but less than half find permanent homes
By 2021, neglect was the leading cause the system removed teens from their families.
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1.5KNewsHomeless shelters aren’t equipped to deal with New Mexico’s most troubled foster kids. Police see it for themselves.
"What we’re doing here?” a sheriff’s deputy asked his supervisor after a shelter call.
