John Kelly

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Rosco Kickingstone, GLBTQ Peer Outreach Worker

Rosco Kickingstone Peace for the Streets by Kids from the Streets, Seattle (206) 726-8500 http://www.psks.org Age: 21 Salary: $8.50 an hour About...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Grants Awarded for March 2007

George Gund FoundationCleveland(216) 241-3114http://www.gundfdn.org • City Year, Boston, $40,000 for the Young Heroes program. • Youth Opportunities Unlimited, Cleveland, $75,000 for general...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Breaking the Silence: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Foster Youth Tell Their Stories

National Center for Lesbian Rights, Free. “I won’t sit in the dark and be a hanger. The only things in the closet...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

How to Feed a Teenage Boy

Georgia OrcuttTen Speed Press240 pages. $14.95. A nutrition guide and recipe book for parents and youth workers looking for healthy meal options...

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Violence in America’s Schools: Understanding, Prevention, and Responses

R. Murray ThomasPraeger Pulishers259 pages. $44.95. Intended to help youth workers and social workers more fully understand the various forms of violence...

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Understanding Youth: Adolescent Development for Educators

Michael Nakkula and Eric ToshalisHarvard Education Press304 pages. $29.95. A broad compilation of practical, theoretical and empirical information about youth development. The...

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Staff Selection: Choose with Care

Meredith KiralyHaworth Press163 pages. $24.95. A hiring guide for providers of residential care. The first of the book’s two sections gives a...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Teen Obesity: How Schools Can be the Number One

Solution to the ProblemWilliam L. FibkinsRowman and Littlefield Education219 pages. $24.95. An action plan for parents, school leaders and community activists to...

News

Youth Crime Ripple

Surge. Spike. A gathering storm. All of the above have been used in media coverage to describe trends in the most recent...

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Newsmakers for December 2006 – January 2007

Nonprofits Last summer, it looked as if the nation’s main suicide prevention hotline, 1-800-SUICIDE, was about to fade away. The U.S. Substance...

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Youth Find Treasure in Mapping

Back in 1992, Richard Murphy guided 2,100 youth in plotting some 7,000 resources in their New York City neighborhoods – everything from...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

H’artWorks

Long Beach, Calif.(562) 438-2931www.icclb.org Objective: Provide opportunities for creative expression to youth in Long Beach. In a Nutshell: H’artWorks is a nonprofit...

Youth Programs and Schools Find a New Way to Share

Just four years ago, Rita McCord couldn’t tell how the kids at Salvation Army Boys & Girls Clubs of Louisville were doing...

School Shootings? Please Ignore the Guns

Following the recent rash of fatal shootings in schools, the Bush administration scrambled to protect youth from more violence last month by...

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Newsmakers for November 2006

Nonprofits Judy Nee officially became the first person to serve as the board president and CEO of the 18-year-old, Boston-based National AfterSchool...

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Hugo Classes for Kids

Seattle, Wash.(206) 322-7030www.hugohouse.org Objective: Give young writers opportunities to develop their writing skills and expand their imaginations. In a Nutshell: Hugo...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

After Katrina: YouthBuild Hammers Back

North Gulfport, Miss. — An unforgiving sun beat down, making the work of rebuilding a partly leveled city all the more burdensome....

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Foundation Child Neglect in New Orleans?

New Orleans, La. — While billions of dollars have been poured into rebuilding this city and much of the Gulf Coast after...

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Newsmakers for October 2006

Nonprofits Mark Russell is the new executive director at Kids Enjoy Exercise Now USA (KEEN), a D.C.-based nonprofit that provides free one-on-one...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Safe Sitter

Indianapolis, Ind.(800) 255-4089www.safesitter.org Objective: Improve the welfare of young children by increasing the number of young adolescents instructed in safe child-care...