Youth Today
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Money for Nonprofits to Build Capacity
A new $50 million program funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for nonprofit capacity building should be ready for preliminary...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Court Finds Political Bias in FDA; Orders OTC Access and New Review of Plan B
Teenage girls 16 and younger could soon have unrestricted access to a controversial over-the-counter contraceptive known as Plan B. A federal judge...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
New Program Accredits Eight Youth Employment Agencies
Eight youth employment agencies recently received accreditation through the National Youth Employment Coalition Promising and Effective Practices Network (NYEC PEPNet) accreditation...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Network Aims to Help Aging Out Youth
The National Governors Association’s Center for Best Practices last month named seven states to participate in a new Learning Network aimed at...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
More Caseworkers, More Pay, More Turnover
While the most common prescriptions for fixing overburdened child welfare systems are to decrease staff caseloads and increase salaries, here’s a new...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Newark Plans First Program for LGBT Youth
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth in Newark, N.J., have never had a place to go for counseling, mentoring and stress-free...
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News
Zero Tolerance Breeds Zero Justice
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — A poem on the wall of PA Child Care, a privately owned juvenile detention facility on the outskirts of...
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► Reports
Homeland Insecurity
Every Child Matters Education Fund This new report shows that the United States lags behind many of the world's comparably wealthy democracies...
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Preventing Adolescent Dating Violence
The Prevention Researcher The February issue features four articles on violence in teen dating. This quarterly journal tackles the issue first by...
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Advances in Juvenile Justice Reform, 2007-2008
National Juvenile Justice Network The United States imprisons more youths than any country in the world. This report highlights state-level juvenile justice...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
New Directions for Youth Development: Community Organizing and Youth Advocacy
Edited by Sarah Deschenes, Milbrey McLaughlin, Anne Newman Jossey-Bass/Wiley 136 pages. $23.20. Subscription $85 (1 year, 4 issues). Recent achievements by community...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Free Vibe
http://www.freevibe.com Set up for the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, this site gives all sorts of...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Teen Source
www.teensource.org Intended to inform youths 13 and older about a wide range of sexual health topics, the site uses video testimonials, links...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Mpower
http://www.mpoweryouth.org Sponsored by Mental Health America, the site harnesses the emotional appeal of music to reach out to youth, with tips on...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
TeenHealthFX
www.teenhealthfx.com Funded by two hospitals and maintained with help from teens and community leaders, the site addresses such emotional health issues as...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Help Starts Here
http://www.helpstartshere.org In a partnership with several schools of social work, this National Association of Social Workers site educates the public and connects...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Policy For Results
www.policyforresults.org This new site offers an array of up-to-date resources and policy strategies to state and local policymakers on issues that affect...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Street Child
Justin Reed EarlyAuthorHouse (self-published)289 pages. $19.99 ($15.99 paperback). Justin Early is a survivor. In his late 30s, an invitation to serve on...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
A Reason to Live
Cynthia Salzman Mondell and Allen MondellMedia Projects, Inc. 52 minutes adult version, 32 minutes high school/college version. DVD $199 for universities and...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Girls Against Girls: Why We Are Mean to Each Other and How We Can Change
Bonnie BurtonZest Books/Orange Avenue Publishing128 pages. $12.95. In a “let’s work together” spirit, this paperback delivers digestible and thought-provoking advice on how...
