To anyone at a nonprofit youth agency trying to live in part on foundation grants, a statement endorsed by Independent Sector last...
A new study of virginity pledges provides evidence about both their effectiveness and their shortcomings. Most teens who vowed sexual abstinence until...
The vending machines at the Clark County YMCA in Vancouver, Wash., make some people uneasy. On the one hand, the machines bring...
CEO Pay Rises As Staffs Shrink Despite the financial woes of the recession, a new report says that while staff sizes at...
The Final Report of the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth, long awaited by youth policy mavens, was recently released with...
A Leary View Of Youth Voting As another presidential election year opens, what this country needs is … another campaign to get...
First lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her friend were afraid, and they didn’t mind letting the three dozen people gathered with them in...
Like many police officers, Officer Kathy Swilley of Houston knows that when the cops arrive in a neighborhood or home, kids often...
When the people who ran Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Inner City Games programs in more than a dozen cities hooked up on conference calls...
Yakima, Wash.—For youth worker Darrel Armstead, the challenge of implementing one of the nation’s most expensive and highly touted youth programs was...
A new federal study has stirred the debate over minority over-representation in the juvenile justice system by finding no evidence of racial...
The safe return of a kidnapped girl in Utah has helped bring the country closer than ever to nationwide systems for alerting...
States Flunk First Child Welfare TestA new test of state child welfare systems is exposing weaknesses, but critics say the biggest weakness...
This is the second of two articles examining how the child sex abuse scandal is affecting youth work in the Catholic Church....
The dramatic return of teenager Elizabeth Smart to her family last month focused national attention on a question that her father raised...
While the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church primarily involves priests, little public attention has been paid to the fact that...
The federal government’s increased support for after-school funding and its drive to boost academic achievement have collided head-on, leaving one of the...
Maybe the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on advertisements to discourage teen smoking, drinking and illegal drug use are paying dividends....
Maybe trying to get more young people to vote isn’t worth the trouble. Blasphemy? Certainly to the tens of millions of American...
Several developments in the past few months have suddenly made it possible for any youth-serving nonprofit to quickly find out if any...