Immigrant youth are targeted by an onslaught of hostile actions designed to disrupt the safety and security of their families and communities and bar their access to education and economic wellbeing.
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As young people across the country continue to face anxiety, depression, and trauma, a new report argues that access to nature may be one of our most powerful—and scalable—strategies to help youth thrive. The Nature of the Outdoors: Stronger Youth Development Through Exploration shows how nature-based programs—often overlooked or thought of as nice-to-have—can play a transformative role in building participants’ positive identity, relationship skills, emotional regulation, and sense of purpose.
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Young people recognize that environmental justice requires connecting environmental impact with a wide-range of social issues and addressing the disproportionate impact of climate change on marginalized communities. Young people are drawing attention to these issues and demanding an intersectional approach to the environment that is grounded in community-oriented solutions.
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Young people are fighting for increased awareness, support, and access to opportunities for healing and wellbeing. They are shifting the narrative about youth mental health to acknowledge that it’s okay to not be okay.
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Young people deserve economic and workforce development policies that enable them and their families to thrive.
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In its first 100 days, the current Administration has issued multiple Executive Orders,* implemented significant reductions of federal agency staff, and eliminated funding for local, state and federal programs supporting youth.
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Join Grantmakers for Thriving Youth and the National Collaborative for Transformative Youth Policy for a conversation with young changemakers from across the country.
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More than 1.6 million students in the US navigate K12 education while experiencing homelessness, foster care, and/or incarceration. What does research tell us about their education experiences and outcomes?
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Families whose children experience health issues that interfere with school success often struggle to navigate school processes, bureaucratic obstacles and language/cultural barriers when trying to ensure their children can thrive in school.
Connecting Pediatricians, Families and Schools for Thriving Youth Read More »
The new Center for Digital Thriving at Harvard notes that technology is both: helpful and harmful…energizing and exhausting…connecting and dividing.
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