We are looking for partnerships with PhD students
We seek partnerships with doctoral students (PhD candidates) willing to direct their research to the prevention of violence and juvenile delinquency.
We are looking for allies!
We are seeking alliances with teachers’ associations in the USA to implement in the country the specialization course in secondary education and citizenship. This is aimed at secondary education teachers and we carried out jointly with the University of Barcelona and the Global Citizenship Education Fund (GCEF).
Analysis of the Adolescent Criminal Responsibility System
We continue with the participatory analysis of the system of penal responsibility for adolescents in Colombia, in alliance with the ideaborn foundation, in October we will start an online debate forum to review and complete the fourth study we have carried out on the subject.
Impacts on Youth when Involved in Sports Programs: Life-Long Benefits
At Remember Youth Fund, we strive to engage adolescent individuals in after-school programs, ranging from inspirational art clubs to physical sporting activities. Both programs benefit students in ways that go deeper than creating beautiful portraits or scoring a winning goal. Specifically, research shows that increased activity in sports grants a lifetime’s worth of advantages. According …
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More Than Just Violence Prevention: Why After School Programs are Imperative
From the YMCA of Cincinnati, Ohio: “REASONS TO JOIN AN AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM There are endless reasons to join an afterschool program. They present a healthy and safe environment with educational resources so students can thrive. They also provide a community of friends and a support system that will not let them falter or fail. These …
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Catching up: how do we reach out to the youth left behind by the impacts of COVID-19?
Whilst variants of COVID-19 continue to mutate and spread, countries with higher levels of vaccination (predominantly the more economically developed countries) are ‘opening up’. What does it mean to open up? Weddings are back on with larger guest counts, domestic tourism is soaring, and in some places schools can drop mask mandates and distancing, to …
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High rates of Black children Detained in Maryland
Inside one of Maryland’s Correctional facilities During a momentously challenging period in the USA, there are various epidemics that began long before 2020. One such epidemic is the US prison (or Corrections) system, which has seen years of mass incarceration, privatisation, scandals of prisoners working at near-slavery pay rates and minority groups being vastly over-represented …
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Beyond Masks: the impact of COVID-19 on the young
COVID-19 is often thought of as disproportionately affecting the elderly. Medically speaking, that is accurate: but there are of course wider effects that are intergenerational. There are also effects of the pandemic, and particularly of the incurring lockdowns, which disproportionately affect the young. What are the effects of COVID-19 on children and adolescents? In a …
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Leading Community-Based Alternative to Youth Incarceration/Institutionalization Shares Blueprint for Success
At age 16, Ellana Watson, whose mother battled mental illness, was mourning the death of the grandmother who raised her when a school fight led to an expulsion, arrest and charges of assaulting a police officer. Today, Watson is working, completing community college and volunteers in her spare time. She said Youth Advocate Programs (YAP), …