Youth

Suicide Risk School Year

Youth suicide attempts increase during the school year and fall during the summer, study finds

Children's Health

Social media is a driver of youth mental health crisis, U.S. surgeon general warns

Surgeon General Social Media Youth

Free heart screenings available in Germantown this weekend

Rumph Heart Screening

Philly lawmaker seeks to revise curfew for minors during summer in response to gun violence

Curfew bill

Five Below aims to double presence in Philly, triple number of storefronts nationwide

Five Below Expansion

West Philly native's clothing brand urges youth to think twice before resorting to violence

God or Guns Clothing

City Council bill streamlines youth curfew, removes punitive fines for violations

Philadelphia youth curfew

Pennsylvania legislators bring attention to the issue of homelessness among students

homeless-youth

Vaping increases COVID-19 risk among teens, young adults, Stanford study finds

Vaping COVID-19

Majority of arrests for loitering, curfew violations in Philadelphia made against Black youth, data shows

loitering curfew arrests philadelphia

As e-cigarette popularity surges, 6.2 million American youth are using tobacco products

Teen Smoking 2019

Flavored e-cigarettes more likely to turn youth into regular users, study finds

Vape Pen 09112019

Study shows potential for reversing the body's 'biological age'

Reverse aging biological clock

Teens can 'find themselves' at youth summit popping up at Temple on May 18

teen conference temple

Music Education

Rogers Stevens riffs with Rock to the Future kids to create original song

Rock to the Future

Local teen Cam Anthony to perform on FOX’s 'Showtime at the Apollo'

Cam Anthony

Report: In Philadelphia, HPV vaccination rate lags behind other youth vaccines

Stock_Carroll - Hospital ER Biohazard

20-year old rocker Hannah Wicklund picks Tom Petty over Katy Perry any day

Hannah Wicklund

Meek Mill, Colin Kaepernick match donations for Philly youth nonprofit

Report sheds new light on Philadelphia's youth homelessness problem

The 2018 'One Book, One Philadelphia' pick is here

Central Branch Free Library of Philadelphia

Filmmaker David Lynch has an idea for combating youth crime in Philly

YouTube made us famous! How Jake Miller and Jacob Sartorius got their start

After shot-up boy lands in his arms, Philly youth advocate gets angry

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Medical claims auditor works to empower youth in old neighborhood

Carroll - The Doctor is Out Tierra Jones

Philly artist creates giant, interactive boom box to inspire city's youth

franklin square boom box

A life voyage: Learning how to build a wooden boat in heart of Camden

BoatWorks 1

WATCH: Livestream catches South Jersey teens tossing trash into osprey nest

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Eagleville Hospital opening heroin, opioid addiction program for young men

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Comcast, YMCA form $15 million partnership for children and families

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Two Penn cooks launching Grassroots food truck to employ West Philly youths

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City Council gets earful at hearing on youth violence

Youth violence hearing March 2016

WorkReady initiative eyes 16,000 youth job opportunities by 2020

Kenny Summer Jobs 2016

Nine-year-old N.J. girl training to box at Golden Gloves

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Councilman: Pushback against youth gun violence is 'the new normal'

Kenyatta Johnson rally

Report: Pa., N.J. rank among top 10 states for youth overdose deaths

Youth choir kids amped to sing for Pope Francis in Philadelphia

Obama to address 106th NAACP Convention in Philadelphia

New money announced for teen summer jobs

For 16 years, Jesuit priest has given Camden youth a reason to hope

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11-year-old boy earns three college degrees, has eye on U.S. presidency

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Easing Vietnamese youths' path to American life

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Persian youth share perspectives on nuclear negotiations

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