Like people in any occupation, youth workers and managers take a keen interest in their own wages. The only thing that can...
At a time of enormous economic and international uncertainty, a group of stalwart souls recently gathered in Los Angeles to assess the...
The weekend of Sept. 7, 1974, was an eventful one for accidental President Gerald Ford. Most remember his presidential pardon of his...
In January, the American Youth Policy Forum celebrated its 10th anniversary by issuing Decade of Service Awards. Youth Today was surprised and...
The Seattle-based Casey Family Programs (CFP) in January unveiled its second major staff cutback within the past three months. In November, CFP...
To many youth workers, federal tax policy is as remote from their everyday lives as Iraq is from Peoria. But they’d do...
That sage of American life, Will Rogers, once observed, “I’m not a member of any organized party – I’m a Democrat.” Today...
It is hard to imagine a more worthy candidate for the juvenile death penalty than 17-year-old John Lee Malvo. He stands accused...
It’s hard to name an approach to positive youth development more universally praised than mentoring. President after president has advocated adult mentoring...
The human service work force is arguably the least visible part of the American labor market of 134 million wage earners. A...
Lihu’e, Hawaii—Anyone trying to escape from what counts as civilization in most of the United States these days would be hard-pressed to...
Another liberal child advocate is taking on the elusive task of launching and sustaining an explicitly political pro-kid organization. The taskmaster is...
ONE DAY, ALL CHILDREN… The Unlikely Triumph of TEACH FOR AMERICA and What I Learned Along The WayWendy KoppPublicAffairs, New York187 pp.,...
When Jim Walker was hired at the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa during the first year of a small federally funded project known as...
Departing from the John and James L. Knight Foundation (assets: $2.2 billion) after nine years is Community Initiatives Program Officer Linda L....
Moving on to new challenges – not retiring, she insists – is Mildred Wurf, public policy director for Girls Incorporated. The dean...
When is a congressional earmark not an earmark, but a line item in the federal budget? When it’s the $60 million appropriated...
In late June Wade Horn, President Bush’s nominee to be assistant secretary for children and families in the Department of Health and...
Welcome to the voice mail system of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Perversion Prevention. Press x1 for grantmaking guidelines for programs...
Quickly making his mark on the Corporation for National Service is former Indianapolis mayor Steven Goldsmith, now an unpaid special assistant to...