Youth Today
Videos
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2.5KSoldier in War Against AIDS Will Be Missed
"One of the soldiers has gone on home," said Ronnie Bass, executive director of Someone Cares of Atlanta. Filling the shoes of...
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2.7KSissy’s Story
"I'm good enough just the way I am," says Sissy Weldon, as she contemplates on her struggles with addiction and lessons in...
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2.4KMany Paths to Recovery, Reducing Shame, Increasing Self-Advocacy
For the past five years, Young People in Recovery has worked within the youth and young adult recovery advocacy space to normalize...
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1.1KWhat Is Wrong With the Recovery Movement?
Justin Luke Riley's candid approach to recovery from opioid and other addictions: "I should have a mission every day to make sure...
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1.1KVideo: Life is Short
Spoken word artist Joseph Green says spoken word poetry is a youth development tool.
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1.1KVideo: Talk Ugly
"The last time I saw you alive, I wish I would have talked ugly to you." Through spoken word, recovering addict Joseph...
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1.3KYouth Leaders and Kids Keep Dream Alive on MLK Day
Kids from the Gresham Park Recreation Center in DeKalb County, Georgia., have been marching in Atlanta’s Martin Luther King Day parade for...
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1.1KFriends
Six stories of losing friends to overdose are woven into one tale of drugs and loss.
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1.6KLuke: Abuse in Foster Care as Trans Youth
"Every time I went to a new group home, it was like: 'you're a girl; you have to have girl things,'" said...
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1.7KWounded Teen Activist Returns to City Where He Was Shot
Semaj Clark is a determined young man. The Los Angeles teenager’s steadfastness helped him emerge from a childhood punctuated by a string...
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1.0KAll the Kalief Browders Out There Deserve the Help I Got
I am Kalief Browder. No, seriously. I am him and he is me. We’re each other. In fact, saying that I’m Mr....
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1.6KUnspoken Truths: Young People in Recovery
We're proud to partner with Upworthy to share this video, produced last summer when the Alcoholic Anonymous convention was in Atlanta. If...
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965The Recovery Diaries: Jessica
Meet 24-year-old Jessica McDaniel: The woman who couldn't go without a drink before 11 in the morning is now helping other young...
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1.5KAging 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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1.1KBrothers & Sisters
Hurt. Frustration. Grief. Anger. Guilt. Three sisters and one brother reflect on their dead siblings' drug addictions.
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1.4KTalking Intervention and Youth
The International Network on Brief Interventions for Alcohol & Other Drugs (INEBRIA) held its 12th conference in Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 23-25.
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1.2KYouth Unite to Face Addiction, Fight Shame
Thousands gathered at the Unite to Face Addiction Rally in Washington, D.C., Sunday, Oct. 4, to fight the stigma of addiction and...
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3.3KThe Problems and Solutions in Adolescence and Addiction
Doctors, social workers and other professionals spoke up about the most pressing problems they see among adolescents and addiction — and shared...
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851Gabrielle’s Story
The premature loss of her younger sister, then 20, sent Gabrielle into a world of deep depression and painkillers, where she battled...
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772The Recovery Diaries: Gabrielle’s Story
The premature loss of her younger sister, then 20, sent Gabrielle into a world of deep depression and painkillers, where she battled...
