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Dec 21, 20245 min read
Philadelphia’s Gun Violence Down, but fear remains among youth
By Zahiya Daniels, Kayla Nguyen, Ericka Otero and Natalie Spina December 21, 2024 Youthcast Media Group® Beautiful Tashya Vinson, an 11th...
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Oct 31, 20246 min read
Breaking The Stigma: An Open Conversation about Grief and Mental Health in Philadelphia with Dominque Wallace
By Zahiya Daniels and Nichole Christian October 31, 2024 Youthcast Media Group® This story was published on Mindsite News's online...
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Dec 22, 20228 min read
Screening Early for Trauma, Learning Disabilities Could Slow School-to-Prison Pipeline, Researchers
By Aileen Delgado, Courtney Curtis, Rick Hampson and Michelle Mairena Youthcast Media Group ® This story was originally published on...
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Sep 7, 20213 min read
Youth fight for racial justice, and take their convictions to the polls
By Alan Gomez and Pamela Rentz Youthcast Media Group® With the world gripped by a global pandemic and protests over police brutality...
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Sep 7, 20213 min read
Jacksonville youth face rising rates of trauma, mental health issues
By Angely Pena Agramonte Teens today are under a lot of stress: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that the...
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Jun 22, 20213 min read
First rejected, then outed in church, bisexual teen questions Christianity
Editor’s Note: The author of this story needs to remain anonymous for reasons you will read about. She is a rising 11th-grader and lives...
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Jun 17, 20212 min read
Community Work, Gospel Music Helps Grieving Mother Recover from Daughter’s Death
By Amora Campbell Youthcast Media Group® This article was published in The Washington Informer online publication January 8, 2021. Rita...
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Jun 1, 20213 min read
He came out to his family, and wound up on the street
By Malaya Mason and Anthony Green Youthcast Media Group® WASHINGTON -- As a young gay black man living in the city’s Southeast district,...
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Mar 6, 20213 min read
Just so you know… Message from UHMP CEO
By Jayne O'Donnell Youthcast Media Group® It’s an understatement to say things at the Youthcast Media Group® are lit. Depending on your...
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Jan 22, 20213 min read
Surviving Trauma: COVID-19 Deaths Only One Trauma Young People of Color Face
BY SAMARAH BENTLEY URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT NEW ORLEANS -- In one week, a patient of New Orleans clinical psychologist Dr. Baraka Perez...
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Jan 19, 20214 min read
Surviving Trauma: Intergenerational Violence Affects Many in Black Community
BY AJMAANIE ANDRE URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT MIAMI – Charlene Bouie felt different from other children from an early age. It was decades,...
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Jan 19, 20214 min read
Surviving Trauma: Separating Siblings in Foster Care Can Be Cruel
BY IJEOMA OKERE URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT WASHINGTON, D.C. — Growing up in the city’s foster care system, Lisa Cohen bounced between 13...
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Jan 19, 20215 min read
Surviving Trauma: Domestic Abuse, Dulos Killing Motivate Mothers’ Political Activism
By Gillian Lamphere and Samantha Rosengard Youthcast Media Group® GREENWICH, CONN. – It was only in looking back that the southern...
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Jan 14, 20213 min read
Surviving Trauma: Natural Disasters Leave Mark Years Later on Survivors
By Anura Sharma January 14, 2021 Youthcast Media Group® MIAMI — Caio Lopes was a high school student in 2005 in Palm Beach County when...
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Jan 4, 20215 min read
Surviving trauma: Even years later, trauma from Parkland shooting translates to action
By Michelle Mairena January 4, 2021 Youthcast Media Group ® MIAMI — It was Logan Rubenstein’s first week of freshman year at Marjory...
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Dec 29, 20203 min read
Surviving Trauma: Miami Resident Leans on Faith to Cope With Multiple COVID-19 Deaths
BY Daniel Gonzalez III December 29, 2020 Youthcast Media Group® URBAN HEALTH MEDIA PROJECT MIAMI — Over just a few months during the...
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Dec 29, 20203 min read
Surviving Trauma: Students Shine Light on Bigotry in Their High School
By Allegra Coleman December 29, 2020 Youthcast Media Grou p® CHICAGO — Their stories were graphic, and numerous.  “I’ve had my butt...
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Dec 29, 20203 min read
Surviving Trauma: Trauma of Past Lives and Hunger Can Follow Immigrants to U.S.
By Fabiha Faruque December 29, 2020 Youthcast Media Group ® MIAMI — As a child growing up in Cuba, Anthony Vidal vividly recalls what it...
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Dec 29, 20203 min read
Surviving Trauma: ‘You Do the Right Thing No Matter What’: Coping With COVID-19
By Khimmoy Hudson December 29, 2020 Youthcast Media Group ® MIAMI — For Basil Binns II, 38, the trauma of COVID-19 struck early. His...
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Dec 29, 20204 min read
Surviving Trauma: South Philly Man Copes With Past Trauma By Helping Others
By Kayla Johnson December 29, 2020 Youthcast Media Group ® PHILADELPHIA — Before he was out of his teens, Waltkeem Jenkins had been...
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