Youth Today is a national, nonprofit, independent news source for people who care about and work with children and youth.
For more than 35 years Youth Today has published in-depth reporting on issues affecting youth including foster care and child welfare, juvenile justice, youth with disabilities, education, out-of-school time, youth development and more.
Youth Today is published by the Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University in metropolitan Atlanta. The Center aims to discover innovative ways to produce financially sustainable, high quality and ethically sound journalism via applied research, collaborations and advancing innovative projects. The Center publishes multiple projects including Youth Today, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, Fresh Take Georgia and Bokeh Focus.
The Center acquired Youth Today in 2012. It was previously published by the American Youth Work Center, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit.
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