Youth Today
Posts By Mark Redmond
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Mad Men and My Own Tobacco Pledge
I love Mad Men. I don’t know if it’s because I grew up in the time period it takes place, the early...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Mad Men and My Own Tobacco Pledge
I love Mad Men. I don’t know if it’s because I grew up in the time period it takes place, the early...
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Guest Opinion Essay
Is Differential Too Deferential?
Six months ago, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported that fiscal 2008 statistics showed that child maltreatment in this...
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Guest Opinion Essay
The Voices of Homeless Teens Must Be Heard
The simple act of placing legislators and homeless teens in the same room and allowing them to pick one another’s brain...
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Guest Opinion Essay
Our Job: Dispel Myths about Homeless Youth
Every December, we hold a legislative open house in our drop-in center to which we invite Vermont legislators to come and learn...
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Guest Opinion Essay
Take a Stand, Even If it Costs You
One of the largest corporate entities here in Burlington, Vt., is Burton Snowboards, which I normally wouldn’t have anything to do...
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Guest Opinion Essay
The Case Against Incentives
Last year, the administration of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a series of experimental initiatives whose intention was to lift...
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Guest Opinion Essay
Federal Child Welfare Test Fails Children
Last year, I had my first experience with the federal Child and Family Services Review (CFSR), which many people in child welfare...
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Guest Opinion Essay
How We’ve Let TV Hurt Girls
Fifteen years ago, I became director of an 18-acre residential treatment center in Westchester County, N.Y. The place was in lousy condition...
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Guest Opinion Essay
Youth Reseach Debate
Response to Youth Research: Duh! By Mark Redmond The woman who heads our education center here at Spectrum Youth and Family Services...
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Guest Opinion Essay
Not Sick Enough
The U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) recently announced some positive news at its first National Children’s Mental Health...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
America’s Overpaid Promise
The February edition of Youth Today arrived one recent day, and as I do every year with this particular issue, I flipped...
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Guest Opinion Essay
Private Pays, but Not for Kids
The business section of The New York Times ran a feature story in August titled, “A Business Built on the Troubles of...
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Guest Opinion Essay
Business Leaders May Have the Wrong Stuff
There is a great scene in the first half of the movie The Right Stuff. A group of men is crowded around...
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Guest Opinion Essay
Raiding Our Staff at Nonprofits
A while back, one of my best staffers came to me with the kind of news that is too commonly heard by...
