Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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1.7KChildren’s book aims to combat stigma, uplift children with incarcerated parents
Incarceration is harmful not only to people held in confinement but to the health of their children who may experience post-traumatic stress...
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2.0KApprenticeships should be part of programming for juvenile offenders
One of the strongest elements of our diversion agreements was a structured community service program. The most successful programs treated juvenile referrals...
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1.8KThe Remix with Karen Pittman: Ensuring youth access to people, places and possibilities
Youth don’t grow up in programs or systems, they grow up in communities. The outreach staff who innovated their work with homeless...
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1.8KEffective anti-violence efforts are trauma-informed
The past couple of years have been some of the deadliest for many major U.S. cities. Murder rates have spiked and gun...
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5.5KIn child welfare, if the solution is money, the problem is poverty
In the beginning, the builders of what would become a system of massive intrusion into families, and, ultimately, the separation of millions...
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The Remix with Karen Pittman: What it takes to get and keep youth in school
A story about Black elementary school children jailed for non-existent crimes caught my attention in October 2021 when it was first picked...
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1.6KAs some detention centers close, reviving “tough-on-crime” is bad policy
Recent surges in homicides and shootings have prompted some who are opposed to juvenile justice reforms to call for a return to...
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2.5KThe Remix with Karen Pittman: Bringing community educators into classrooms
In his December 3 Q&A with Brian Rinker, Michael Funk discusses California’s historic investment in afterschool and summer programs. Amidst the excitement...
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3.2KWhen relationships come first in schools, success follows
After more than a year of disrupted school for most of the country, we know that meaningful relationships are a powerful part...
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2.5KCalifornia juvenile reforms should proceed, despite probation officer lobbying efforts
As California’s juvenile probation caseloads have plummeted and annual costs of incarcerating a single youth skyrocketed to hundreds of thousands of dollars,...
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2.2KReturning to pre-pandemic activity raises Asian American fears of anti-Asian gun violence
Going on outdoor walks without a mask. Hopping on a Washington, D.C. Metro train without holding my breath. Meeting friends at restaurants...
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3.7KThe forgotten ones: Congress must extend pandemic aid to foster youth like me
Protections that foster youth like me fought for to safeguard us during the pandemic will disappear today, September 30, if our representatives...
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2.6KAs court upholds electroshock therapy at Massachusetts school, opponents continue decades-old fight to end it
For years now, I and other disability advocates have been fighting to end the use of electroshock treatment on youth with behavioral,...
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3.1KVulnerable youth need justice, and legal aid needs community
At ALWAYS, we serve human trafficking survivors and children and young adults affected by homelessness, abuse, and the foster care system. With...
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2.7KHow youth-serving organizations can teach civil discourse
Empowering youth to speak up about issues that matter to them is an important step toward self-awareness and community advocacy. This is...
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4.4KElevating equity and community voice beyond the pandemic
UPDATE: New video added — Over the last eighteen months, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to tectonic shifts in the ways our...
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2.2KDisruptive students, often facing challenges at home and in their communities, deserve acts of “restorative justice”
This is how practitioners of restorative justice approach things: First, focus on building strong, authentic relationships in a community, including schools that...
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2.9KYou can fix most ‘child welfare’ problems by giving poor people money
A concept some of us have been pushing for decades has suddenly become a centerpiece of the child welfare debate: Family policing...
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2.5KPreventing needless punishments, including student arrests, demands new approaches as classes resume
A June 2021 report from the U.S. Department of Education found that, from the 2015-16 through 2017-18 school years, there was a...
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2.6KTo ‘Build Back Better,’ we must invest in our young people of color
As the U.S. begins to rebuild from the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, the Biden administration has signaled that it intends to seize the...
