Children and Youth

The young generation’s context, changing needs, and lived realities determines whether they would engage with your programme.

If you were told that over half of young people in the United Kingdom would prefer to live under a dictatorship, what year would you say this data was drawn from?It might shock you to learn that the…

Right now, in the U.S. and around the world, children’s lives are under threat due to climate change. Nearly 710 million children are currently living in countries at the highest risk…

Nearly one in six American children live in poverty. Being poor at birth increases the likelihood that children will remain poor. And because of deeply embedded structural racism, children of color born in…

Considerable research evidence links childhood experiences of poverty to harmful effects on physical and mental health, social and behavioral functioning, and cognitive, academic, and educational outcomes. Yet little is known…

The Breakfast Club teaches youth how to raise hogs, helping first-generation farmers pursue a career in agriculture.

When I was a young researcher studying how forested ecosystems recover from wildfire, I brought my 6-month-old daughter with me to Yellowstone National Park. These forests are incredibly resilient to…

Babies and children are missing needed check-ups because of coverage loss. (Adobe Stock photo) Government red tape has caused millions of ch…

Florida updated its school safety dashboard in April 2024, and it is now one of the most comprehensive in the nation. F. Chris Curran is an education policy professor at…

The expanded child tax credit proposed under the Biden American Rescue Plan is the largest single anti-poverty investment in children since the introduction of Head Start to over half a…

Nearly 100,000 children lost parents to a drug overdose or gun violence in 2020. (Adobe Stock photo) Over the past 20 years, the number of U…

The connection between foster care and homelessness is well known among those working in the field. For youth transitioning from care who had a prior episode of homelessness, a future…