Jim Myers, Author at Youth Today

Understanding DACA’s Discontinuation, Its Impact on Adults Who Work With Youth

WASHINGTON — They teach school, provide health care, work construction jobs and use high-tech skills at the world’s most iconic companies. But...

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College is for Poor Kids

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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Rookie Burnout

Rough start in Baltimore for Douglas Miller: “The neighbors and clients all thought I was a police officer, yet the police would...

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Restraints that Kill

Keymar, Md.—The setting is pastoral: a 120-acre estate in central Maryland, where Preakness and Kentucky Derby winners were once raised. But the...

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Sure They Talk, But Can They Walk?

As a symbol of the wrong way to do things, the razor wire-enclosed Oak Hill Youth Center in Laurel, Md., has long...

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Winning Over the Neighbors

In a downtrodden neighborhood in Tucson, Ariz., La Paloma Family Services faced a struggle typical to group homes around the country: The...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

When a Thief Strikes from Inside

Retired police investigator Jim Brauch blames himself for the troubles that helped force the South Everett Youth and Community Center to...

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YAPing it Up

Lebanon, Pa. Alan McLoughlin spends much of his week laboring in his family’s construction business, doing what’s commonly considered tiring work. He...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Make ’em Sweat

When it comes to the kinds of activities to provide for kids, after-school programs have been getting two loud and competing messages....

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Holy Youth Work

Baltimore, Md.—In 1954, a U.S. Senate subcommittee summoned child psychologists and comic book publishers to hearings on a matter of grave national...

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What’s in a Name?

Peg Smith knows what you think when you hear “camping”: RVs. Tents. Outdoor latrines. When you’re the CEO of the American Camping...

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Staff Management

People who volunteer to work at youth agencies think they’re giving their labor for free, but agency managers know better. Several recent...

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A Dangerous Drive

As accidents go, the results could not have been worse for the Tippy Toes Learning Academy: four children and their van driver...

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Restraints Put on Hold

Greeneville, Tenn.—Staffers at the Holston United Methodist Home for Children painfully recall days in the mid-1990s when they dreaded coming to work....

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A Youth Boycott Tries to Ring Bells

There are several reasons to urge teenagers to avoid fast food chains like Taco Bell, but is one of those reasons …...

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Football Star Scores in Washington

At a time when after-school and AmeriCorps programs face proposed federal cuts that could eliminate services for untold thousands of children, the...

Civic Engagement: Youth Take on Troubles in Their Neighborhoods

Philadelphia—According to polls and conventional wisdom, 16-year-old Ricardo Rodriguez and his friends belong to a generation that doesn’t get involved in civic...

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Just Say Less

Canaan, N.Y.—Henri Williams thinks this article may upset you. That’s because he uses two words that routinely set off alarms among people...

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Youths Flee Somalia, Flood Land of Lakes

Minneapolis—In the late 1990s, Minneapolis faced a surprise dilemma: This heartland city had suddenly become the preferred U.S. destination for refugee families...

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