youth organizations Archives

On learning and meaning making

Katherine Plog-Martinez speaks with Kim Sabo Flores about how meaning making—reflecting on and making sense of experiences—is crucial to youth development.

OST Staff: Woman and young child sit at low classroom ttabe working on art

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Opinion

Hiring part-time, temporary staff to work with youth isn’t okay any more

We did something revolutionary with our two newest job postings in our youth program: offered them as full-time, year-round positions.

child abuse and neglect prevention, treatment grants; sad child sitting in hallway

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Grants

Child maltreatment in youth organizations national research project grant

GRANT FOCUS: Child Maltreatment, Child Abuse, Youth Organizations, Sexual Abuse, Research | Amount: $1,500,000 | Deadline: Oct. 24, 2022

youth organizations step up to fill gap in classroom civic discourse: youth group led by young black female student discussing at table

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News

Youth organizations step up to fill gap in classroom civic discourse

As partisan tensions over America’s fraught racial history reshape classrooms into ideological battlegrounds, community youth organizations are finding new, alternative avenues for...