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All posts tagged "youth welfare"
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Grants
National Youth Leadership Initiative Grants
Subject: Youth Drug Use, Community Development, Youth Welfare, Health | Deadline: Jan. 19, 2016
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3.6KNewsCalifornia High School Health Clinic Asks Students About Childhood Trauma to Improve Their Health
When students show up for an appointment at the Elsie Allen Health Center, located on the Elsie Allen High School campus in...
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2.6KNewsMuslim Youth Treated as Outsiders, Face Hostility: Youth Programs Respond
More than half of Muslim students ages 11 to 18 report having been bullied because of their religion — a rate twice...
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2.4KFrom the FieldArtistic Collaboration: Transforming Youth and Youth Justice by Integrating Arts
The room was silent. Twelve probation officers sat silently in a circle. Some glared at the floor, some looked at the ceiling....
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STEM Education and General Health/Well-Being Program Grants
Subject: Health, Child/Youth Welfare, Education, STEM | Deadline: Ongoing
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4.2KNewsMindfulness: Helping Youth Learn to Feel Emotions and Choose Their Behavior
There’s hardly a youth worker or parent who isn’t concerned about the growing number of early and sometimes severe diagnoses of anxiety,...
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1.4KNewsVideo: Aging Out, Stepping Up
Senior counselor James Milan, Claremont Neighborhood Center, Bronx, N.Y.
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1.7KNewsAging Out, Stepping Up
James Milan entered foster care at age 4. “My childhood wasn’t the greatest,” he says wryly. “I was trying to figure out...
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1.6KNewsConnecting With Parents a Key Part of Refugee After-school Program
New American Pathways resettles about 500 refugees per year, most in DeKalb County, Georgia. Kids in the after-school program focus on as...
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1.9KNewsIn Class, Out of Court: How One School District Triumphed Over Truancy
Sending kids who habitually miss school to court under the state’s 20-year truancy law hasn’t helped them stay in school. But a...
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2.0KFrom the FieldUnaccompanied No More: Family Mediation and Preservation First
How can we expect young people who are worried about where they will sleep that night, where their next meal will come...
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High Quality Child Care is Out of Reach for Working Families
The Economic Policy Institute gauges the affordability of child care across the country using several benchmarks and shows that child care has...
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2.6KNewsNew Toolkit Issued to Help Providers Measure Trauma With ACES Survey
A new toolkit is out that aims to help services providers give a survey about traumatic childhood experiences that are linked to...
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2.6KOpinionUse Student-First Language to Stop Bullying Behavior
October was bullying prevention month and there were programs all over the country to highlight bullying as an ongoing issue in schools.
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1.6KNewsResource Guide Shows Ways to Support Undocumented Students
Out-of-school time providers can find valuable resources for undocumented students in a new resource guide recently released by the U.S. Department of...
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Parents Behind Bars: What Happens to Their Children?
This new report from ChildTrends sheds light on the often-undiscussed result of mass incarceration; how it affects the children of those in...
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Ending Conversion Therapy: Supporting and Affirming LGBTQ Youth
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration underwent a careful review of existing research about conversion therapy for LGBTQ youth and...
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2.3KOpinionScreening Youth for Depression Saves Lives
National Depression Screening Day (NDSD), Oct. 8, is an ideal time to promote depression awareness in schools and after-school programs.
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Grants
School Garden Grant Program
Subject: Child/Youth Health and Welfare, Nutrition, Education | Deadline: Oct. 31, 2015
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Grants
Delta Region Health Care Service Grant Program
Subject: Health, Healthcare Access, Child/Youth Health and Welfare| Deadline: Dec. 2, 2015
