The abysmal state of knowledge development and its dissemination in youth work is captured by two items among the avalanche of newsletters,...
This is an emergency! Call the ACLU. The First Amendment is under attack by Children’s Rights, Inc., the litigious group run by...
For Democratic-leaning human service groups like the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA), the inauguration of President George W. Bush for a...
Promoting best practice in the juvenile justice field has a long, twisted history, with enough triumph and tragedy to concoct a soap...
There seems to be a sentiment in the country, at least among the 57,355,978 Americans who voted for Sen. John F. Kerry...
Is God a Republican? God only knows. Are congressional Republicans, the Bush administration and conservative grant reviewers answering the prayers of GOP-leaning...
America’s Promise (AP) has a new president from the Volunteer State, Marguerite Sallee, who most recently served as staff director of the...
Two New York City-based foundations – the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and Atlantic Philanthropies – are revving up their nationwide grant-making...
When Sid Johnson, 63, mounted his new black 1500cc Honda Goldwing touring motorcycle and zoomed off on a yearlong see-the-U.S.A. odyssey, he...
It’s disorder in the court for the 2,000-member National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ), headquartered in Reno, Nev....
The Future of Children, a 14-year-old journal sired by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, has gazed into the future – and...
Matching the Job to the Task On Feb. 3, Michael Hernandez of Miami slit the throat of fellow 14-year-old Jamie Gough in...
The acerbic Harry Truman once commented on his 1850s predecessor, Franklin Pierce, that when he was in the White House, Pierce “didn’t...
The 108th Congress is back in Washington for its second and – bless you, Founding Fathers – final session. The first session...
In the children and youth national arena, dreaming up a categorical youth program, getting it enacted into law, securing an appropriation and...
A National Organization for Women (NOW) press release in May trumpeted the good news: “Women’s rights supporters across the U.S. cheered” as...
That idle hands and idle minds are the work of the devil and a major cause of juvenile delinquency has been an...
The foundation world may have trouble promoting and sustaining positive social change, but when it comes to setting up special interest caucuses,...
April marked the sixth anniversary of the Presidents’ Summit for America’s Future, held in Philadelphia. Needed or not, a gathering of more...
If Marian Wright Edelman and her Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) is a spent political force, then no one has informed the Democratic...