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A program at the Youth Haven shelter in Collier County helps young people learn a trade and make a living.

The Lee County Legal Aid Society has begun representing immigrant children and teens.

Two brothers from Plant City with FGCU ties are focusing on helping youths from 16 to 22 change a mindset that had them conforming to their environment.

People in the 18-29 age range tend to have the lowest voting rates in the nation. Southwest Florida officials, and even young people themselves, say that probably will not change in this November's election.

If a juvenile’s first offense is a minor crime in Florida, officers don’t have to make an arrest. They have the option of handing out what’s known as a…

Billed as an alternative to suspension and expulsion, restorative justice efforts are transforming discipline, and classroom culture, across Southwest…

Some teenagers in Immokalee want to end the cycle of poverty in their town with salsa. Nearly half the people in the farmworker community are poor. So a…

On a Thursday evening, resident coordinator Shari Clark presents the Gang Awareness Training Education or G.A.T.E. program to about 14 teens and pre-teens…