Youth Today
Posts By Maggie Lee
-
News
Love Evident in Top Dropout Prevention Programs
The New Directions Alternative Education Center in Manassas, Va. won a 2013 National Dropout Prevention Network award for their work. L-R: Principal...
-
News
Dropout Prevention Strategy: Be Less Boring
Standing room only at the 25th annual National Dropout Prevention Network Conference, with a keynote address by former Education Secretary Bill Bennett....
-
News
Childcare Experts Urge Attention to Adult in Child Welfare
Approximately 200 state lawmakers, staff and advocates from across the country at a child welfare forum at the National Conference of State Legislatures...
-
News
Measuring AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps volunteers leave the State and National program and the NCCC feeling more connected to their communities, more likely to vote, to...
-
Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
AmeriCorps Turns 20
At 20 years old, AmeriCorps is the same age as many of its volunteers. And like any young adult, it is trying...
-
News
Kids and Trauma: Maintaining a Watchful Calm After the Oklahoma Disaster
Videos taken within flattened schools by survivors of this week’s Oklahoma tornadoes show the damage through a simple lens. Children see things...
-
News
Georgia Brings Child Sex Trafficking Fight to School
Starting this fall, students in a pilot program for Georgia high schools are set to start learning about child sex trafficking. It’s...
-
News
Different Law, Different Experience for Sexually Exploited Children
Left: Francine Sherman; ” There’s always some discussion of what fits” the definition of child sexual exploitation, said Francine Sherman, a professor...
-
News
Georgia Program Reopens Foster Care Cold Cases
ATLANTA — In far north Georgia, 17-year-old “Brandon” lives in a group home. He has been the ward of two states in...
-
News
Conference Offers Strategies for Protecting the Child From Sexual Abuse
Organizations that serve youth must overlap their defenses against sexual predators, say experts at a youth protection conference organized by the Boy Scouts...
-
News
Former Penn State President Charged in Sandusky Case
Pennsylvania will prosecute former Penn State President Graham Spanier on charges that he helped cover up sex abuse charges against former assistant...
-
News
Report Card on U.S. Children “We can do Better”
Nearly two years ago, more than a dozen welfare experts trooped to Capitol Hill to testify about challenges to American children and...
-
News
Juvenile Justice Advocates Fear Millions Cut by Sequestration
Unless the U.S. Congress agrees on a different budget by the end of this year, stopping a so-called “sequestration” budget, federal spending...
-
News
Plugging in Disconnected Youth
Months after a White House study committee published a list of recommendations, a big tent of advocates and scholars are starting to...
-
News
School-to-Jailhouse Pipeline Not Only in Mississippi
Meridian is not alone under the DOJ magnifying glass. In a somewhat similar case in Tennessee, the DOJ says the Juvenile Court...
-
News
Meridian Struggles with School-to-Prison Allegations
Lionel Townsend will turn 14 in September and a few months after that he will be able to return to school, ending...
-
News
Federal Government to Allow More Flexible Child Welfare Spending
The strings tying millions of federal dollars to foster care will be loosed in the coming months, allowing up to 10 states...
-
News
Dreamers Place Hopes in New Federal Immigration Program
By Maggie Lee, Audrey Cheng and Amy Li Juan Sancen was 12 years old when he came to the United States. He’s...
-
News
Comics Journalism Tackles the Immigration Debate
Jessica Colotl says her life is a series of hearings since the struggle began between her and federal and state authorities over...
-
News
Penn State to Administer $60 Million Child Welfare Fund
Pennsylvania State University says it will administer the $60 million fund for prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse mandated by an...
