When I consider the role the private sector plays in addressing educational and social service needs in society, I vacillate between whether...
William Harvey Jr., a youth outreach worker for the city of Boston, was recently honored by the city and his union....
Where is the bunker mentality, the hunker-down discipline, the emergency perspective, the feet-to-the-fire policy response to assisting youth-serving (and other) nonprofits in...
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 contains good news about summer programs for disadvantaged young people preparing for jobs, higher...
Many local foundations, especially the smaller ones, could use some help in understanding and working in the arena of youth policy. In...
At a time when many foundations are supporting education reform and millions of philanthropic dollars are going to fund youth development programs,...
A group of educators, advocates and donors has been meeting under the auspices of the Youth Entrepreneurship Strategy Group (YESG) to ponder...
Imparting life skills is a primary goal of youth programs around the world. So why do we know so little about what...
New figures reveal a disturbing combination we haven’t seen for 40 years: Teenage suicides, serious crimes and drug and alcohol deaths are...
Here at Brandeis University, I teach a graduate course on national and international youth policies. My students range from youth workers at...
American youth development programs, like the American people, are all over the place when it comes to helping young people learn and...
Youth workers’ lack of knowledge about and engagement in public policy issues has been noted time and time again at professional gatherings...
I have heard it all too often in youth program circles: “The United States should focus on the challenges right here between...
Last month’s youth riots in France raised many important questions, including what that country must do to tackle chronic youth alienation and...
Many professional groups comprise the tapestry of what Youth Today readers call “youth work”: Educators, health professionals, managers with MBAs, sociologists and...
These are good times for community colleges. President Bush is stumping for support of the community college system. Special initiatives in the...
Many young people need financial help to become employable. Yet financial assistance – real money carefully targeted toward removing barriers to employment,...
What do Kenya, Liberia, Congo, Haiti, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Algeria, Iran, the Palestinian Territory and Saudi Arabia have in common?...
School dropouts, arguably the most vulnerable youth group in the United States, are also a group for which there is no meaningful...
The last issue of Youth Today focused on some historical themes, from the National Youth Admin- istration in the Depression to today’s...