Appearing before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, whistleblower Arturo Bejar, a former Meta engineering director and consultant, testified on Meta’s harmful impact on children. He said that his own teenage daughter was among…
1,538 viewsFairplay Executive Director Josh Golin discussed recent legal challenges to social media companies over claims the platforms negatively impact youth mental health.
412 viewsVice President Kamala Harris gave remarks at the Center for American Progress Ideas Conference in Washington, D.C. She started with the Israel-Hamas conflict, saying that the U.S. must…
313 viewsMattie Kahn talked about young girls who helped to ignite key social movements in American history such as 15-year-old Claudette Colvin who was arrested in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, for…
94 viewsAmerican University’s Sine Institute of Policy & Politics Executive Director Amy Dacey discussed the findings of their recent survey focusing on young Americans' perspectives on politics,…
296 viewsSecretary of State Antony Blinken delivered closing remarks at the Mandela Washington Fellowship Summit, a gathering of young leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. Secretary Blinken…
303 viewsNorth Carolina Democratic Party Chair Anderson Clayton, the youngest state party chair in the country, discussed her outreach to young and rural voters, during a virtual event with the…
444 viewsThe Peer-to-Peer Movement: Students Saving Lives was one of the second-prize high school west division winners in C-SPAN Classroom’s StudentCam documentary contest. Aria Rani Sindledecker, a ninth grader at…
86 viewsElla Scott’s Banned Book Club: How Students Are Fighting Back In The War Over Censorship and Ideas was one of the second-prize middle school east division winners in C-SPAN Classroom’s StudentCam documentary…
154 viewsJesuit priest Gregory Boyle talked about his book, Forgive Everyone Everything, and work done by Homeboy Industries, the Los Angeles-based gang intervention program that he founded in 1992.…
187 viewsU.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy took part in a panel discussion on improving youth mental health. The topic came amid reports of teenagers experiencing an increase of mental health…
841 views“It’s a bigger message to everybody else, to not count young people out of the process, not count young people out of anything,” said Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) as he addressed the impact of the…
720 viewsMental health practitioners, educators and students testified on the mental health needs of kids and teenagers before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee on…
1,122 viewsEve Levenson and Bo Machayo, co-founders of YouthInGov, talked about efforts to have young people better represented in policymaking. YouthInGov is a coalition of over 100 youth serving…
513 viewsYoung America’s Foundation President and former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) talked about what young people are intersted in as they vote in the 2022 midterm elections. He also…
513 viewsThe Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Administrator Liz Ryan talked about sentencing reform during an event hosted by the Sentencing Project.
288 viewsUNICEF Mental Health Adviser Zeinab Hijazi talked about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global youth mental health crisis. Afterward, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy…
154 viewsSenators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ), activists, and other lawmakers spoke at a Capitol Hill rally to mark the 10th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood…
892 viewsU.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy testified at a Senate Finance Committee hearing focused on the mental health of children and teenagers. Topics included the accessibility of treatment,…
1,649 viewsSenate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-WA) said America’s children are “on a path to crisis” during a hearing about children’s mental health issues, which have been compounded by the…
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