"Młodzież nie śpi w nocy."
Translation:The young people do not sleep at night.
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Neither.
Młodzież is purely a collective noun and it refers to young people as a whole.
For abstract youth, see młodość.
For a single young male person, chłopak might be the simplest word to use, but other ones might be better in a given context.
By current Wiktionary definitions: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/youth 1 and 2 are młodość, 3 and 4 depend on context, and only 5 is młodzież.
I would add , that "młodzież" can mean a group of young people.
this sentence without context says that young people in general do not sleep at night. But it may mean that a certain group of young people does not sleep at night, and gets in trouble,
or that in the specific group of people ( I have a bus trip in my imagination here) , the "youth" part of them does not sleep.
This is accepted due to American/British differences in treating collective nouns.
If you wrote that because you thought that "the youth" refers to one young person, then no. "młodzież" is a collective noun.
I just changed the main answer to "young people" because "youth" is very problematic in this course.