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In 2021, Community Science started working with the Wend Collective, founded by James Walton and based in Denver, Colorado. Our evaluation focused on Wend’s Thriving Youth Initiative. The initiative centered around successful models and enabling conditions to help children and youth from historically disadvantaged populations
How can we better predict and plan for changes that affect one critical aspect of community development, like gentrification, displacement, or housing shortages? Many government officials, nonprofit leaders, and foundation program officers come to us with this question, often after investing in large data dashboards or completing housing needs assessments with metrics or strategies that quickly become outdated.
Education is more than just academics—it can address social issues like poverty, mental health, and inequality. By expanding supports for at-risk and disconnected youth beyond the classroom, we can use education to promote overall well-being and build stronger, healthier communities.
The role of uncertainty and chronic stress and how this impacts young people’s access to opportunities. There is longstanding literature in the field of disaster research that documents the impacts of uncertainty, revealing the social, emotional, and psychological affect that children and youth may face ...
Examine the struggles parents face in advocating for their children's special educational needs within a system often ill-equipped to accommodate them as we highlight the intersection of racial equity issues and special education advocacy, and emphasize the importance of collective action, policy reforms, and financial support to ensure fairer assessments and equitable opportunities for all students.
Conducting research study interviews with youth who have experienced significant life challenges — homelessness, intimate partner violence, childhood abuse, or other traumas — demands a delicate, compassionate approach
Seeing the problem. The juvenile justice system in the [...]
In the 1980s, juvenile justice systems in the United [...]