All posts tagged "youth perspectives"

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  Badges and binders: Counselors, youth coordinators and records staff support a side of local youth public safety that needs to be more visible

  A summer intern at the Hayward Police Department meets the civilian staff whose work rarely makes the news but keeps everything running.

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  Quality afterschool is worth the investment — It changed my life

  Once an afterschool kid herself, Deja Martyr now runs the programs — and argues why cities must keep investing in them.

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  From the Field

  When working can’t feed families, youth have to find a new way

  Editor’s note: In just two years, a financial literacy platform started by a New Jersey teenager has grown into an international movement....