Motions begin this week in a lawsuit alleging that expelled students receive an inferior education and violate the state’s constitutional guarantee of...
“In a typical legislative hearing you have aids whispering in the legislators’ ears, you have rustling of papers, you have side conversations,...
Subject: Child/Youth Welfare, Sports, Fitness, Youth Development, Health | Deadline: Ongoing
Raising the age to be charged as an adult and restorative justice are crucial in slowing the school-to-prison pipeline, New York panelists...
In mid-November, an 8-year-old boy in Birmingham, Alabama, was charged with the murder of a 1-year-old girl named Kelci Lewis. Authorities announced...
An unlikely group gathered last spring in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the opening of a new addiction-treatment center just for teens. Probation...
Families whose income is double the poverty level — $39,580 for a family of three — would still find such costs prohibitive....
It can be far too easy to hide behind a screen in today’s hyperconnected world — whether it’s commenting anonymously or simply...
Subject: Women and Girls, Youth Welfare, Social Services, Domestic/Dating Violence | Deadline: Mar. 9, 2016
Policy and programs can remove obstacles to college for youth experiencing homelessness and foster care
Subject: Child/Youth Welfare, Mental Health, Teen Parenting | Deadline: June 30, 2016
As part of its most recent "Vital Signs" report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) took a comprehensive look at...
Subject: Health, Community Development, Child/Youth Welfare | Deadline: Jan. 29, 2016
Youth Today asked attendees of the National Black Child Development Institute’s annual conference earlier this year about the a recent time they...
Subject: Youth Drug Use, Community Development, Youth Welfare, Health | Deadline: Jan. 19, 2016
When students show up for an appointment at the Elsie Allen Health Center, located on the Elsie Allen High School campus in...
More than half of Muslim students ages 11 to 18 report having been bullied because of their religion — a rate twice...
The room was silent. Twelve probation officers sat silently in a circle. Some glared at the floor, some looked at the ceiling....
Subject: Health, Child/Youth Welfare, Education, STEM | Deadline: Ongoing
There’s hardly a youth worker or parent who isn’t concerned about the growing number of early and sometimes severe diagnoses of anxiety,...