By Brenda V. Perez Amador (Changemaker, ND4Y) and Kathy Tran (Senior Policy Analyst, CLASP) The New Deal for Youth (ND4Y) Policy Platform advances radical and interconnected policy ideas that transform current systems and center racial, gender, and social justice. This blog is one in a four-part series that introduces the ND4Y framework: Reparations, Liberation, Decriminalization, and Abolition. A New Deal…
On behalf of the Center for Law and Social Policy’s New Deal for Youth initiative (ND4Y), we would like to express our support for the Build Back Better Act.
There has been so much talk about the upcoming midterm elections, and even the Presidential race in 2024. But the real question is: what do voters really want?
Changemaker Kadesha Mitchell and Dr. Nia Best-Wey, CLASP’s director of youth policy, presented the ND4Y Healing and Wellbeing Demands at the National Council for Mental Wellbeing Conference. Check out their digital poster and read the Solutions Guide with tips on taking better care of your mental health here.
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“There were moments I felt like I failed her,” said Joseph Yusuf, now 26, who balanced being a father with being a student at Howard University. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post) Joseph Yusuf had all of the anxieties of a new student when he started Howard University in 2016. Would he make any friends? Could he…
There are currently more than 400,000 children in foster care in the United States. While the pandemic has made life more difficult for these vulnerable kids, many say the foster care system itself has been putting them at risk for decades. Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault sat down with one former foster child who is now…
"Society will try to break you down in many ways, school pushout is one but always remember you are enough, you are worthy, you are a Black woman, the strongest, the most resilient, the most fearless, the most hardworking, the most outgoing, and nobody will ever take that away from you.” - Oumou Kaba The…
Jazmine Wildcat is entering her senior year at Riverton High School in Wyoming. Even as a young person, she has spent most of her years advocating for equality and equity for others and ensuring that humankind and the Earth will be protected for future generations. Being diagnosed with depression and anxiety, Jazmine founded the Nii’iini…
After years of decline, poverty increased for young people in 2020. (byronv2 / Flickr) The U.S. has failed to meaningfully address young people’s physical and emotional health in the last year. What kind of “recovery” systematically fails an entire generation? What are we saying to young people about their value when their cries for economic…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: [email protected] October 29, 2021 WASHINGTON, DC - Today, young leaders from A New Deal for Youth released the following statement on the ways President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” framework would impact young people living in America: “If we are going to rebuild our country to being better than it was…
This post was guest authored by Marissa Howdershelt, a fourth year student at University of California-Riverside, majoring in Public Policy with a minor in education. They are involved with New Deal for Youth Changemakers’ Healing and Well-being initiative. Marissa Howdershelt The New Deal for Youth Changemakers from the Healing and Well-being subcommittee were graciously invited to the Hogg Foundation…
In August 2021, New Deal for Youth (ND4Y) Changemakers participated in a panel titled “Beyond the Climate Crisis: The Journey to Environmental Justice” for the Appalachian Trail Conservancy’s Emerging Leaders’ Summit. During the conversation, Changemakers Aniya Butler, Kaliko Kalahiki, and Marissa Howdershelt highlighted radical and holistic solutions that value our humanity and collective well-being over corporate greed. ND4Y Changemakers believe…
The California homelessness crisis is not Governor Newsom’s fault, nor is it a recent issue. It’s offensive and unconscionable to blame one man for a decades long struggle of structural inequality that is baked into the framework of this state and this nation. While California makes up about 12 percent of the US population, the…
We are so proud of #ND4Y Changemaker Sixto Cancel for sharing his story and ways America can improve the foster care system in the New York Times. Sixto writes, "When I left the foster care system, I founded a nonprofit, Think of Us, to promote systems change for foster care. We partnered with the Annie E. Casey Foundation and…