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Working with today’s generation of youth involved in the criminal justice system does not provide instant gratification for direct service workers. Today’s generation do not get up to volunteer a seat for the elderly. Today’s generation will curse out their …
We are living at a time when race is central to the national dialogue about justice and the need to transform our broken justice system is an increasing part of the public consciousness. While much of this conversation is focused …
The Center for Native American Youth (CNAY) at The Aspen Institute introduced its first-ever online roundtable, Generation Indigenous (Gen-I), to further its reach in garnering the opinions of its stakeholders. In the resulting first annual report, titled The State of Native …
A federal report published today by the Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF) showed that the number of children in the United States who experienced child abuse and neglect rose for the third year in a row. Using 2015 …
Lawful but awful. This is the phrase that is now commonly used to describe the deadly shootings committed by the police against people of color.
This fabulous video from Atlanta Speech School shows what a trauma-informed/resilience building school looks like — and what a school looks like that hasn’t incorporated these practices. We’ve done stories about schools that have incorporated practices based on the …
By Sarah Barr Policymakers and funders should consider the diverse backgrounds and experiences of youth involved in the sex trade when deciding how to provide services, says a new report from the Center for Court Innovation.
New Initiative Says Moment Is Now to End Youth Homelessness By Sarah Barr of Youth Today| June 13, 2016 A new initiative to curb youth homelessness wants to capitalize on what organizers say is a critical moment for anti-homelessness policy and …
The recent study, “Foster Parent Strategies to Support the Functional Adaptation of Foster Youth” aims to shed light on practices that foster families have implemented to help a foster child successfully transition into a new home. Authors Annette Semanchin Jones, …
At Carnegie Hall, Brooklyn Teens Get to Work with Pros on Their Songs By Emma Hernandez NEW YORK — In the Resnick Education Wing 10 floors above the main stages of historic Carnegie Hall, a teenage girl named Breanni stood …
