Amy Nakamoto, executive director of DC Scores – an after-school program in Washington – figured there was "no way" she’d win a...
A graphic anti-methamphetamine ad campaign that features gory depictions of drug-addled teens, pocked with lesions and freebasing meth – is getting credit...
Call it service with a smile – and a background check. A new final rule issued by the Corporation for National and...
After a two-year battle with paperwork and other administrative details, the National Association of Youth Courts has set up shop as a...
The case of the “Jena Six” in Louisiana has drawn public attention to the disproportionate treatment of racial groups in juvenile justice...
Youth issues are a hot topic in Congress, but whether that leads to legislative progress remains to be seen. After several youth-related...
Most observers seem to agree that the community outreach director at the Greater Manchester Family YMCA goofed: She took a group of...
A magnifier helps children look for living things in lessons on Earth science. Not long ago, Hands On Science Outreach was a...
Teens who land high-paying summer construction jobs may feel lucky to earn, on average, $20 an hour, but the National Institute for...
Once again, the employment prospects for teens this summer look gloomy. If the forecast of Andrew Sum and Joseph McLaughlin of Northeastern...
Finding a pot of $30 million in federal grants for your specialty in youth work should make you feel pretty good. But...
The scandal that is roiling the Texas juvenile justice system has yielded its first criminal indictments. Two former administrators at the West...
Crackdowns on Illegal Immigrants: Administrative arrests by fiscal year As federal immigration authorities raided a New Bedford, Mass., manufacturing plant in March,...
Youth at a TYC assessment unit. Photo: Michael Ainsworth/Dallas Morning News The most stunning aspect of the sex abuse scandal rocking the...
A decade ago, Roy Block, president of the Texas Foster Families Association, rarely heard about former foster youths going to college. Oh,...
For those who love budget slides, actuarial tables and the phrase “fiscal year,” February was your month. Not only did President Bush...
Although big corporate mergers grab national headlines – like the recent $41 billion marriage of Cingular with AT&T Wireless – the union...
Youth issues are expected to get greater attention under the Democratic Congress that will be seated in January. As a result of...
In a rare Capitol Hill victory for youth advocates, President Bush last month signed legislation to create the nation’s first youth development...
Bricca P. Sweet doesn’t want another federal after-school grant. Don’t misunderstand: They’ve helped her in the past. But now that her community...