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Recommended: Self-taught African Teen Wows M.I.T

15-Year-old Kelvin Doe is an engineering whiz living in Sierra Leone who scours the trash bins for spare parts, which he uses to build batteries, generators and transmitters.  Completely self-taught, Kelvin has created his own radio station where he broadcasts news and plays music under the moniker, DJ Focus.  Kelvin became the youngest person in history to be invited to the "Visiting Practitioner's Program" at MIT.

B.C. Youth Suicide Report Calls For Better Trauma Care

British Columbia's government must do more for young people at risk of suicide other than provide them with warm beds in the homes of well-meaning but overwhelmed foster parents, says a report released by the province's independent children's representative.

World Atlas of Youth Policies

A valuable new resource for policymakers has been developed by the International Institute for Education Planning in collaboration with the UNESCO Youth-led Social Innovation Team.  The team has developed an atlas of national youth policies, with an English language version for each country that has a policy.

Forty Seconds of Kindness

An older brother helps his younger sister... Brilliant!  Watch

Less Than Half of Youth with Mental Illness Receive Adequate Follow-up Care

Youth 15 to 19 are among the most vulnerable of those suffering with mental illness.  However new research shows that less than half of Ontario youth hospitalized with a psychiatric diagnosis received timely follow-up care.  Read More.

If Children Lose Contact With Nature, They Won't Fight For It

With half of their time spent at screens, the next generation will be poorly equipped to defend the natural world from harm.  The remarkable collapse of children's engagement with nature - which is even faster than the collapse of the natural world - is recorded in Richard Louv's book Last Child in the Woods, and in a report published recently by the National Trust.


Youth Vote Really Counted in the US Election

More young Americans than ever before voted in the 2012 presidential election - around 64 million young people classified by demographers in the US as Millennials (or Generation Y, born between 1980 - 2000) were eligible to vote.  The Millennials represent a large and growing generation of socially progressive people and their influence on the path America will take into the future will be immense.