{"id":160507,"date":"2022-04-23T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T00:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/?page_id=160507"},"modified":"2025-08-23T12:20:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T19:20:01","slug":"blog-youth-services","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/?page_id=160507","title":{"rendered":"Blog: Youth Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 1.5em;\"><strong>YOUTH SERVICES<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\"><em>The opinions expressed in blog posts are those of the author and not necessarily those of YouthFacts.org<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/?p=161172\">On Doing Democracy in \u201cThird Places\u201d: Youth Citizenship Education<\/a><\/strong> <strong>By Anthony Bernier | August 2025 | <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the vast numbers of books and articles published each year touting youth and promoting youth organizations, rarely is there anything new. Indeed it is all too expected to read cliches about building agencies and creating spaces in which youth \u201cparticipate.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/?p=161042\"><strong>Librarians Punch Down on Teenagers \u00a0<\/strong><\/a><strong>By Anthony Bernier | October 2023 | <\/strong>Toleration for difference, unfettered access to contrary opinions, and the promotion of free expression number among the institution\u2019s core values [\u2026] So, it\u2019s all the more disturbing to continually discover national library leaders punching down on the very young people they purport to be defending in these pitched battles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/?p=160831\"><strong>What Gangs Can Teach Us\u00a0 <\/strong><\/a><strong>By Anthony Bernier | February 2023 | <\/strong>Objectifying young people, like objectifying anyone, rarely brings about positive\u00a0outcomes. This is the lesson we never read or hear about in popular media.\u00a0Administrations treat kids like someone who sees every problem as a nail because all\u00a0they have is a hammer.\u00a0All we did here was ask.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/?p=160776\">Why do libraries continue to strike out with young people? <\/a><\/strong><strong>By Anthony Bernier | January 2023 |<\/strong>The answer to the question why libraries strike out with young people is simple: libraries envision young\u00a0people merely as information consumers, and many still believe that libraries are about books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YOUTH SERVICES The opinions expressed in blog posts are those of the author and not necessarily those of YouthFacts.org On Doing Democracy in \u201cThird Places\u201d: Youth Citizenship Education By Anthony Bernier | August 2025 | Among the vast numbers of books and articles published each year touting youth and promoting youth organizations, rarely is there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-160507","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160507"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161186,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160507\/revisions\/161186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}