Youth

A Rowan University professor created a program to teach children in urban communities how to swim. She’s co-hosting a Philly aquatics symposium this month

With Camp Akeela, a Philly-area native and her husband offer kids who have trouble connecting with their peers a chance to experience the magic of overnight camp

The operator of Mason Meals delivers healthy, delicious food to preschoolers around the city

In some towns, Americans as young as 16 can vote. WURD’s afternoon host asks: Why not here?

Nearly 7,000 18-year-olds registered to vote between the primary and general elections this year. The bestselling author and Safe Kids Stories founder announces the winners of the Vote That Jawn contest, which helped to GOTV

Just do what these young people say: #VoteThatJawn

Philly 3.0’s engagement director breaks down Pennsylvania’s surge in youth voter registration

As her Mastery-Shoemaker principal attests, the high schooler benched from basketball because of her hijab is a freedom fighter for our times

Philly’s Poet Laureate invites the city of many to celebrate the many in the city

An innovative Juvenile Justice Hub proposed by two Philly cops is a finalist for a Bloomberg Philanthropies grant. It’s time, they say, for smarter policing