Youth Today
Posts By Jessica R. Kendall
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Melanie Lockwood Herman, executive director of the Nonprofit Risk Management Center, suggests employee handbooks, another important piece to limiting liability, include the...
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Opening School Facilities to Private Youth Programs — A Legal Analysis
In his overview analysis, Professor Tom Baker wrote that “public schools in most states are subject to liability in some situations that...
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Insurance Shopping: Questions and Consideration
While a thoughtful policy and procedure manual will help manage an after-school program’s risk, the program should also consider what kinds of...
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Risk Management Planning: A Basic Checklist for Youth Protection
When taking a critical look at risk categories, the Nonprofit Risk Management Center provides the following advice: Personnel and participants are a...
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After School Programs: Managing Risks and Limiting Liabilities
With a life-threatening peanut allergy, Mason Machiewicz’s mom, Alissa, keeps a strict peanut-free home. Having just completed her search for a private...
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Summit Rallies Young People to Become Juvenile Justice Advocates
During a session on disproportionate minority contact, youth audience members participate in a mock justice system processing activity facilitated by Tshaka Barrows...
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Justice Policy Institute Brings in Advocate as Executive Director
Marc Schindler has worked “outside” the justice system as a litigator and advocate, but also in the trenches of a juvenile justice...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
The Nuts and Bolts of Strategic Planning for Nonprofits
Consider strategic planning “the shelter and water” a nonprofit needs to sustain, said Ana Cortez an expert in strategic planning who helps...
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Forum Explores Changing Perceptions on the Modern American Family
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Many young people are growing up today in homes with same sex parents. Research shows these young people fare as...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Foundation Highlights Strategies to Increase Economic Security for Low Income Women
WASHINGTON, D.C.–Six months ago, the Goodwill of Greater Washington started a program to help employees overcome barriers such as lack of child...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Gala Raises Money and Awareness for After School and Mentorship Programs
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Traveling from Orlando, Fla., Donna Bozarth, a mother, grandmother and board member for the U.S. Dream Academy was one of...
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On Memorial Day, One Nameless Organization Rallies for Gun Control
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The streets of downtown Washington, D.C. were busy with tourists and parade-goers on a day when the nation remembers...
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Teens More Likely to be Perpetrators and Victims of Dating Violence
Erin was 14 when she started to date her first boyfriend. “At first, it was exciting and new,” she said. But things...
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SAMHSA Kicks Off Media Campaign to Prevent Underage Drinking
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A.J. Senerchia started occasionally drinking in the 7th grade. When he began drinking regularly during the week, his...
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Immigration Proposal Could Impact Children and Families
This week, the advocacy group First Focus garnered the support of 180 groups to support an amendment to the U.S. Senate’s recent...
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Immigration Proposal Could Impact Children and Families
This week, the advocacy group First Focus garnered the support of 180 groups to support an amendment to the U.S. Senate’s recent...
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When Parents are Unemployed, Children Suffer
Job loss significantly impacts children; federal programs could do more As jobless rates remain high, federal and state support systems could do...
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Implementing Recommendations on Children Exposed to Violence
WASHINGTON, D.C.–Immediate and decisive action is essential to help heal the wounds of millions of American children who have suffered from exposure...
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President’s Budget Proposes Spending on Youth Programs, Services
President Barack Obama introduced his 2014 budget proposal on Wednesday, highlighting new efforts to increase funding for education and juvenile justice. Although...
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The Healing Power of Video Games
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Shortly after her 13th birthday, Dani Zimmerman started to feel pain in her fingertips that quickly spread to three...
