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The Fine Art of Helping Kids At Risk:
A Chicago program proves art therapy is an effective approach to helping kids manage anger and become successful.

A Medical Home for Kids in Foster Care
: Moving from home to home can lead to lost medical records and "patchwork" health care; an Alabama pediatric practice is working to change that.

Standing Up and Speaking Out:
It's high schooler Farheen Haider's turn to speak—and to help others find their voices.

Judy Woodruff - A Personal Path to Advocacy: The CNN anchor has taken on an active role advocating on behalf of children with spina bifida ('04 interview).



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About our Articles: Connect for Kids covers a range of topics related to children and families. Through our editorial coverage, we strive to:

• Illuminate the lives of children— particularly vulnerable children and youth—and the adults who make their lives better, whose stories are under-represented in mainstream media.

• Respect divergent views and include
the voices of children and youth.

• Use new media to demonstrate effective storytelling and connect readers to information and tools to act on the issues they care about.

• Guard against reflecting the generalized and often negative views of certain populations of children (children in foster care, adolescents, boys, inner-city kids, minority kids, suburban kids, poor kids, rich kids) that are so common in our culture.

 


Latest Articles

Get the scoop in the 2008 contest and listen to a special CFK podcast with Bryan Doerries, program director of Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, which administers the Scholastic Art and Writing Award, and two of the high school students who took top honors in photography.

Teenagers in foster care often have stories to tell—but lack the tools to tell them. CFK looks at how the Center for Digital Storytelling has provided those tools to participants in their program, and helped create valuable teaching tools for those who work with teens in care.

Hampton, Virginia, a 400-year old city once dubbed “Crabtown” for its abundant seafood, has an exciting new natural resource: youth as change agents. In April 2007, 40 community leaders from coast to coast gathered there for an “Innovations Site Visit” to learn more about the city’s award-winning, holistic model for youth civic engagement.
Money makes a lot of things happen, but can it drive more states to tackle comprehensive school reform? States have been working hard to put in place the changes required to apply for the Race to the Top funds. Our Jan Richter looks at what it means, and what states are doing to try to earn the money.

In the “land of plenty,” 17 million children don’t get enough to eat. A December 8, 2009 Coalition on Human Needs’ webinar addressed the surprising connections between hunger and obesity, and how economic hardships impact American diets, and young people’s physical and mental health and learning.

The health reform plan in the House repeals the popular, effective Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)—even though one of President Obama's first and much-touted acts in office was to reauthorize CHIP after it had been vetoed twice by President Bush. In this article, Trudy Lieberman looks at what could happen to CHIP, why it matters and why it's not getting much media coverage.
Behind the news with the the only journalism nonprofit that focuses exclusively on children, youth and families at risk. What do its leaders think about the state of mainstream media, the power of "good news" and what comes next?
In 2009, the Los Angeles Unified School District launched a new model for parent involvement that specifically addresses the needs of "parents of color with kids who struggle in urban schools." It's designed by and for parents to improve learning and connection to schools. Get the story.
Students' struggles with college mental health services are leading to some important changes, as WireTap's Annie Robinson reports.
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