Youth Today
Posts By Martha Shirk
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Is Reading Fundamental After School?
San Jose, Calif. – Can after-school programs help children read better? Time for progress: Youth workers and youths spend 90 minutes a...
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Cops Call for Backup – From Social Workers
San Jose, Calif.—On a dreary evening in January, a man walked into the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department to lodge a complaint....
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Hunting for Grandma
Campbell, Calif. — Like many children in foster care, the one on Kevin Campbell’s mind this morning has no known relatives. But...
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The Meth Epidemic: Hype vs. Reality
To even the most casual observer, the news media this summer gave the impression that a methamphetamine epidemic has created a child...
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New Homes for Foster Care’s Old Folks
After a day of hustling between college classes and two jobs, 19-year-old Sean Dachtler is ready to fall into bed in his...
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So Many Friends, So Fast
Portland, Ore. One of the first things Catherine Milton noticed when she became president of Friends of the Children (FOTC) three years...
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How Brown Sank to Red
The Bronx, N.Y. The abrupt bankruptcy filing by Brown Schools in late March left a wake of hardship – hundreds of youth...
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Pay-As-You-Go Youth Work
San Francisco—On the last day of a month-long summer program in life skills, 14-year-old Shedrick Milton left the cozy office of the...
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Unjust Medicine
By all accounts, 17-year-old Omar Paisley died an excruciating death. For three days, Omar lay on a concrete bunk, weeping and moaning...
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The Gift of Wrapping
Campbell, Calif.—It’s been a little more than a decade since Jerry Doyle launched an initiative that drove his agency into debt and...
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Faith-Based Youth Work Wins More
Gainesville, Texas—It’s an hour until dawn, but the 36 youths who live in Dorm 56 of the Gainesville State School are already...
