Youth Today
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3.1KPassion and Community: How Justice-involved Youth Are Helping Peers Outside Their Walls
“Tell me about a time you made a mistake.”
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1.2KYouth Worker Spotlight: Mental Health and Refugee Youth
Youth Worker Spotlight celebrates the unsung heroes in out-of-school programming.
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5.0KThe Challenges and Solutions in After-School Programming
Funding. Waiting lists. Lack of access. Various out-of-school time professionals speak honestly about the challenges after-school programs face and what people can...
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2.2KFoster Youth Bring Their Priorities to Capitol Hill
Foster youth sometimes get the chance to respond to lawmakers’ child welfare agendas. Based on a survey of more than 500 current...
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1.6KDear U.S. Presidential Candidate,
"How will my life be better if you are president?" "Dear Candidate," Youth Today's latest stirring visual piece, features young people of...
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1.6KKids and Drugs: A New Theory
Author and reporter Maia Szalavitz, who writes about substance use and related issues recently spoke with Youth Today and JJIE about her...
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1.2KPolice and Black Teens: ‘If I Get Pulled Over Today …’
At the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta, Michael Gandy, now 28, draws from personal experience as a young black teen.
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3.4KCould You Survive One Month Living in Poverty? A Simulation for Youth Workers and Educators
At the National Youth-At-Risk Conference held in Savannah, Georgia, last spring, 82 youth workers and educators signed up to see if they...
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1.4KFamily Wants Answers on NY Teen’s Death
Dayshen McKenzie, 16, collapsed and died of an apparent asthma attack after he and a group of mostly black friends were chased...
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1.7KPeer Education: Supporting Lower-risk College Students Before the Risk Is High
The Alcohol and Other Drug Education and Assistance program at Kennesaw State University (north of Atlanta) is on a prevention mission: to...
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1.2KNaloxone in Georgia
Naloxone, a medicine used to stop the effects of an opioid overdose, can be easily applied via a squirt through the nose...
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1.7KReporter’s Notebook: A City Expecting the Least From a Broken Criminal Justice System
The rumors were out a few days ago that Officer Caesar Goodson had been acquitted on murder and other charges in the...
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1.5KReporter’s Notebook: Frustrated Baltimore Youth, Residents Look for Solutions
Less than 48 hours after the Caesar Goodman verdict left many in Baltimore longing for justice, the city was dealt another blow...
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1.5KPressing Themes in the Out-of-School Time Workforce
This spring, Youth Today convened a group of Out-of-School Time (OST) thought leaders concurrent with the American Educational Research Association annual conference...
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1.2KLocked in the Box: Student Assignment – 24 Hours in Solitary
"Before, I perceived solitary confinement as just another cruel sanction of the government.
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1.8KLost in the System: Girls, Foster Care and the Commercial Sex Trade in L.A. County
Hundreds of L.A. children are sexually exploited every year. Experts in the field say it's not surprising that 70 percent of them...
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1.2KRepresent: A Magazine for Foster Kids by Foster Kids
The nonprofit Youth Communication in Manhattan shares the voices of youth in foster care through Represent magazine, used as an educational tool...
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2.4KTeen Birth Rate Drops Dramatically, Still Huge Issue for Foster Kids
Jessica Chandler spent her teenage years in foster care in California after her parents divorced and her mother struggled with mental illness....
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1.5KYou Gotta Believe!
“Aging out is not safe. Aging out leaves kids with sort of a lifetime of potential dire outcomes and loneliness," says Susan...
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1.5KWatch What Happens When Former NYC Foster Kids Speak Truth to Power
You can hear the frustration — and need — in each of their voices as this group of young adults, who grew...
