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Because Every Child Deserves A Home

Karen Olson | Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact

Read More: National Housing Trust Fund, At-Risk Youth, Homelessness, Family Promise, Youth Homelessness, Impact News
Karen Olson

Time and again people across the country share with me what a gift the act of volunteering has been for them. It's time to share what we have to prevent the frightening increase in homelessness, especially among families and children.

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A Call to Arms to Save Our Youth

Rep. Bobby Rush | Posted 11.12.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Youth Violence, At-Risk Youth, Early Childhood Education, Mental Health, President Obama, Danny Davis, Derrion Albert, Bobby Scott, Chicago News
Rep. Bobby Rush

Right now, as the city I love mourns its way through yet another deadly weekend of gun-related violence, our youth far too often get caught in the crossfire.

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A Gift on Veterans Day: Re-Engage Veterans in Service

John Bridgeland | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Community Service, Faith Based Institutions, At-Risk Youth, Sonia Meneses, Troops to Teachers, Congress, Veterans Service Corps, Iraq, Afghanistan, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Politics News
John Bridgeland

America's support for veterans should not stop at the airport gate. How our nation treats its returning veterans says a lot about our gratitude for their service.

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Black Cowboys Teach Inner City Kids Horsemanship, History

Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 11.03.2009 | Impact

Read More: Inner City, Horses, At-Risk Youth, Queens, Federation of Black Cowboys, African Americans, Mentoring, New York City, Impact News

Kids from rough areas in New York City have found a home away from home on a 25-acre ranch in Queens, CNN reported Tuesday. Since 1994, the Federati...

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StandUp For Kids: A Hot Meal and Trust on the Street

Judy Ranan | Posted 11.03.2009 | Impact

Read More: Standup for Kids, At-Risk Youth, Youth, Street Kids, Homelessness, Homeless, Outreach, Judy Ranan, Impact News
Judy Ranan

Over the months I've come to not only respect the street kids I work with for what they've gone through, but to understand that they are survivors.

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Children of Prisoners: Innocent and At Risk

Pat Nolan | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: At-Risk Youth, Children, Incarceration, Prison, Abandonment, Raising Children, Abandoned, Families, Children's Health, Family, Adoption, Politics News
Pat Nolan

Maintaining the child-parent relationship during a parent's incarceration improves a child's emotional development and their behavior, and will help keep him or her from following their parent to prison.

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Advice for the "Nothing I Do Really Helps!" Blues

Carine Fabius | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Philanthropy, At-Risk Youth, Nicholas Kristof, Haiti, Amazon, Healthcare, Mentoring, Living News
Carine Fabius

In the end, life is not made up of days and weeks and months and years but by each moment. And if only one moment can be made sweeter by just one of our acts, then we will have fulfilled our purpose.

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Goodwill Is Rad

Jim Gibbons | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Thrift Stores, Pop Music, Shopping, Job Creation, Goodwill, At-Risk-Youth, Living News
Jim Gibbons

I read recently that Paramore, the Grammy-nominated, pop-punk band, do their shopping at a down-to-earth location: the Franklin, Tennessee, Goodwill Store.

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A Chance to Change

Michael Markarian | Posted 09.13.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Animals, Michael Vick Dogfighting, Michael Vick, Dogfighting, Chicago, Animal Cruelty, Michael Vick and the HSUS, At-Risk Youth, Hslf, Hsus, Michael Vick Chicago, Chicago News
Michael Markarian

On Chicago's South Side, Michael Vick spoke to at-risk youth and urged them not to get involved in dog-fighting, telling kids from personal experience not to go down this dead-end path.

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Prison Prevention for Kids: A Little Money Well Spent

Ramon Resa, MD | Posted 08.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Community Service, California Prison System, At-Risk Youth, Camps for at-Risk Youth, Poverty, Prison, Children in Poverty, Alcoholism, Gang Prevention, Overcoming Poverty, Childhood Criminals, Drug Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Us-Prison-Overcrowding, Juvenile Crime, Living News
Ramon Resa, MD

Intervention at the right age can turn a kid away from gangs, crime, and drugs for good whereas doling out stiff penalties only seems to result in more people going to prison.

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Any Given Child

Michael Kaiser | Posted 08.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Public Schools, Arts, At-Risk Youth, Any Given Child, Arts Education, Kennedy Center, Living News
Michael Kaiser

Arts education is particularly important at this juncture in our economic history. With manufacturing jobs evaporating, we need more than ever to train our children to be creative, problem-solving members of our economy.

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A Promise for Our Children

Carol Chodroff | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Inner City Poverty Campaigns, At-Risk Youth, Inner City Youth, Poverty, Human Rights, Youth, Gang-Related Crime, Us Department of Justice, Human Rights Watch, Children, Kids, Department of Justice, Youth Crime, Gangs, Incarcerated Teens, Incarceration, Incarcerated Black Youths, Incarceration Rates, Incarcerated Teenagers, Politics News
Carol Chodroff

The Youth PROMISE Act Rejects "one size fits all" approaches that will funnel more youth -- particularly poor youth and youth of color -- into the juvenile and criminal justice systems.

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