San Jose, Calif. – Can after-school programs help children read better? Time for progress: Youth workers and youths spend 90 minutes a...
San Jose, Calif.—On a dreary evening in January, a man walked into the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department to lodge a complaint....
Campbell, Calif. — Like many children in foster care, the one on Kevin Campbell’s mind this morning has no known relatives. But...
To even the most casual observer, the news media this summer gave the impression that a methamphetamine epidemic has created a child...
After a day of hustling between college classes and two jobs, 19-year-old Sean Dachtler is ready to fall into bed in his...
Portland, Ore. One of the first things Catherine Milton noticed when she became president of Friends of the Children (FOTC) three years...
The Bronx, N.Y. The abrupt bankruptcy filing by Brown Schools in late March left a wake of hardship – hundreds of youth...
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...
By all accounts, 17-year-old Omar Paisley died an excruciating death. For three days, Omar lay on a concrete bunk, weeping and moaning...
Campbell, Calif.—It’s been a little more than a decade since Jerry Doyle launched an initiative that drove his agency into debt and...
Gainesville, Texas—It’s an hour until dawn, but the 36 youths who live in Dorm 56 of the Gainesville State School are already...