Community involvement is something that can start small and make a big impact. American Indian and Alaska Native youth 13-21 years old are encouraged to share what makes you HIV aware and how you...
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President Obama has designated December 2012 as National Impaired Driving Prevention Month and invites families, educators, health care providers, and community leaders to promote responsible...
The connection in mentoring — pairing young people with caring adults — is a youth development strategy that can create a path to successful adulthood for children.
Returning to society after being incarcerated isn’t easy. Yet a group of formerly incarcerated youth that recently met with U.S. Department of Education (ED) Secretary Arne Duncan and Assistant...
The National Council of Young Leaders is a newly established council with a diverse group of young people. The council, which launched on September 19, has 14 founding members ranging in ages 18-...
The “I Strengthen My Nation” media campaign (featuring actor Chaske Spencer who plays Sam Uley in The Twilight Saga) encourages Native communities to address substance abuse by teens and young...
In Rhode Island, the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) offers the Post Secondary Education Tuition Assistance Program for DCYF-involved youth to receive up to 35 percent of the...
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Ready.Save.Grow. campaign launched the “Save Out Loud” Contest to celebrate kids’ savings goals and inspire a lifetime of good savings habits. Students in...
The National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) is a new Federal reporting system created to track the independent living services States provide to youth and to collect outcomes information from...
This October marks the second annual National Substance Abuse Prevention Month – an observance to highlight the vital role of substance abuse prevention in both individual and community health and...
