Andrew D. Beadle, Author at Youth Today

Message in a Bottle

Sometimes you have to cross the ocean to get a clearer picture of what is happening in your own country. I just...

A Rush to Placement, or a Rush to Judgment?

The latest child protection horror story from New Jersey – this one involving a couple charged with starving and neglecting their adopted...

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Behavior Modification: Abuse Alleged

Rep. George Miller of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Education and the Workforce Committee, wants the Department of Justice to...

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The Urge To Merge

Denver—After eight years as the executive director of The Spot, a hip-hop program for at-risk youth in Denver, Dave DeForest-Stalls was exhausted....

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The Urge To Merge

Denver—After eight years as the executive director of The Spot, a hip-hop program for at-risk youth in Denver, Dave DeForest-Stalls was exhausted....

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Congressional Roundup

Job Training Senate sponsors of legislation to reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act do not expect the full Senate to make many changes...

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For Foster Kids, Aging Out No Longer Means Left Out

Cheyenne, Wyo.—Gina Scott was sent to her first foster home when she was 9. Like many others in the foster care system,...

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Federal Grants Website: Will it Click?

The federal government is making it easier for nonprofits to find, apply for and win federal grants. Those goals are not fully...

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Congressional Roundup

The House of Representatives last month passed its version of a bill (HR 7) designed to increase charitable contributions, but without a...

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When Kids Hold the Purse Strings

American teens are notorious big spenders, plunking down $170 billion in 2002 for electronic gadgets, movie and concert tickets, food, clothes and...

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Inside the Fight to Save AmeriCorps

Washington, D.C.—The battle to save AmeriCorps began at breakfast. It was May 16, and more than a dozen executives from some of...

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Congress

Lawmakers plan to introduce legislation this month that they hope will make it unnecessary for parents to give up custody of their...

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AmeriCorps Hang-up Leaves Agencies Dangling

With youth-serving agencies around the country bracing for major losses in volunteer staff because of a financial crisis at AmeriCorps, Congress stepped...

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After-School Funds Make a Comeback

Critics of the House Republicans may need to reconsider charges that Congress is nothing but a rubber stamp for the Bush administration,...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

News Briefs for July 2003

Foundations Fight Law To Give More Some of the nation’s largest foundations are trying to change a provision in a federal charity...

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Youth Employment

This summer’s youth job market is expected to be the worst since the end of World War II, and is not likely...

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Summer Programs

A Boys & Girls Club cuts its hours and reduces salaries. A recreation department institutes fees for programs that had been free....

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Faith-Based Services

Faith-based organizations eager for government money are grateful that the Bush administration is teaching them to navigate the federal grants process, but...

Congress

Youth workers and the youth they serve may lose their voices on local work force investment boards, as youth councils would be...

Juvenile Justice

A new interstate agreement on handling juvenile offenders as they cross jurisdictions is moving slowly toward enactment. The new Interstate Compact for...