The second annual film festival, sponsored by MediaRights.org, celebrates the year's best short film and new media to encourage action and inspire discussion for social good. Screen it right on your computer with these free streaming videos. Be sure to check out My Family, My Neighborhood, My Story, which won the Connect for Kids Fight Poverty Award!

Youth crime is down nationwide, but you wouldn't know it from today's headlines. According to a recent study by the Casey Journalism Center, stories of crime and violence dominate news coverage of kids. We asked three teen reporters from Children's Pressline in New York how they feel about the media's portrayal of kids.

How can we keep children safe on the wild, wild Web—while still protecting free speech? Connect For Kids' Susan Phillips thinks that the "Dot-Kids" bill proposed in Congress could be a partial answer.

More than 2 million teenage and pre-teen girls turn to YM for advice on boys, beauty and fashion. But thanks to new editor Christina Kelly, readers looking for diet tips will have to go elsewhere. This article appeared in WomensEnews.com.

Through photographs and words, five young people who have been through the juvenile justice system in California offer a kaleidoscope of thoughts on where they have been and where they are headed. This project by Brooklyn photographer Joseph Rodriguez also includes Rodriguez' own journey through the system as a young man in Brooklyn. This is the first web site included in the Human Rights Watch High School Pilot Program. Click on "Human Rights Watch" which is lsted on the left side of the screen.

Young people in the rural Upper Peninsula area of Michigan are taking on the roles of both learners and leaders through their work with 8-18 Media, a youth journalism project based in Marquette. Learn about their efforts, and read an example of 8-18 Media's work.

Some former welfare recipients have found stable employment and built a better life for themselves, but others are unable to make ends meet in low-wage jobs with no benefits and no options for advancement. The Alliance for Children and Families has collected the personal experiences of welfare reform.

What do war, peace and growing up mean to kids in the Middle East? Find out through candid interviews in PBS's "Promises," a documentary in the POV series.

The Federal Trade Commission has established new rules for Web site operators to make sure that kids' privacy is protected while they're online.

Sponsored by the Media Awareness Network, this Canadian site provides educators, parents and students information and resources on issues involving youth and the Internet.