Memphis, Tenn. In 1995, Patrick Lawler, CEO of one of Tennessee’s largest youth service contractors, approached state officials with a radical idea:...
Four-year-old Daniel Wilson was literally a handful. “It was all I could do to hold him,” says his 31-year-old father, DeWayne Wilson,...
Cincinnati, a hotspot of urban unrest last month, faces “a mess of a summer,” forecasts a local youth worker who laments that...
A U.S. Supreme Court verdict is being awaited following the recent oral argument over a case involving a faith-based youth program that...
An Orthodox Judaism panel investigating teenage sex abuse allegations against a 50-year-old New Jersey rabbi and veteran youth worker blamed “profound errors...
Although October will bring an end to the seed money provided by the federal School-to-Work (S-t-W) Opportunities Act of 1994, as of...
In what may be the biggest chunk of pork ever fed to youth-serving organizations, the 2001 federal budget bestows at least $420...
With more than half of all 15- to 17-year-olds employed in the retail trade industry-such as fast food, restaurants, and grocery stores-the...
Bully Foes Pushed Around: Mary Harvey, founder of Prescott, Ariz.-based Safe Schools, Safe Students, is an eternal optimist. Since mid-fall her agency...
Richmond, Ky.—In four short years, Kentucky has erased a blot of shame from the record of what was laughably described as the...
Catcalls, raspberries, howls of protest and various random drubbings have greeted a provocative new teen sex advertising campaign designed to do what...
PHILADELPHIA—It is a mentor’s mecca, this town of cheesesteaks, hoagies and sticky buns. That was one of the...
Mary Strasser calls it “the Cadillac of school-to-career programs.” Mary Jane Clancy, executive director of the School District of Philadelphia’s Office of...
Scrambling to fill the void being left by the now defunct 16-year-old Job Training Partnership Act’s Summer Youth Employment Program, alarmed youth-serving...
On the first anniversary of the April 20, 1999 school shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., a flurry of reports,...
Ten states have been selected to participate in a waiver demonstration program designed to improve the opportunities of young, unmarried fathers to...
“March Madness” took on a new meaning with last month’s hard-edged gun law rhetoric from President Clinton and the National Rifle Association,...
The driver of a minivan plowed off a busy interstate into a group of seven youths, killing five instantly as they participated...
In a 5-4 ruling last month the Supreme Court dismantled the Clinton administration’s tough teenage anti-smoking campaign by stripping away the U.S....
Florence, S.C.—Enveloped in the picturesque, seductive spring greenery and perfumed breezes of this sprawling Up Country Southern city, but left out of...