Youth Today
Archives: 2014 & Earlier
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Resources: Search Institute’s 40 Developmental Assets Posters
Search Institute’s 40 Developmental Assets are widely used among youth workers as a model for nurturing youth development. Alongside books that provide...
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Resources: I Noticed! Notes
With these printed notes, adults can give quick, positive feedback to young people when they do the right thing. On four pads...
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Resources: What’s Your Spark? Spark Catchers
These fire-colored mini-brochures are a nifty tool to engage teens in discovering their own “spark” – personal passions, talents or interests that...
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Resources: You Can Make a Difference for Kids Booklet
This eight-page, glossy color booklet (8½ inches square) summarizes the 40 Developmental Assets concept to inspire adults in all walks of life...
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Awards July 2011
2011 Champions of Health Professions Diversity Award For: Commitment to increasing California’s health care workforce and its diversity. By: The California Wellness...
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Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy
Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee BoyCarlos EireFree Press307 pages. This stand-alone sequel to Waiting for Snow in Havana,...
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Alternative High: The Troy Shawn Welcome Story
Alternative High: The Troy Shawn Welcome StoryWritten and directed by Michael A. PinckneyProduced by Garret Anton HarkawikYouth Communication/Reel Works Teen Filmmaking18 minutes....
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A Leader’s Guide to Real Men: Urban Teens Write About How to Be a Man
A Leader’s Guide to Real Men: Urban Teens Write About How to Be a ManYouth Communication and Development without Limits354 pages. also...
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Streamlining the Confirmation Process Is Good for Everybody
We members of a special bipartisan commission to help reform the federal appointments process support the enactment of the Presidential Appointment Efficiency...
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Adolescence & Other Temporary Mental Disorders
Adolescence & Other Temporary Mental DisordersProduced by Barbara Lonnborg and Eli HernandezBoys Town Press1 hour, 15 minutes. DVD. This talk by Patrick...
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Mentor: The Kid and the CEO
Mentor: The Kid and the CEOTom Pace with Walter JenkinsMentorHope Publishing175 pages. Audiobook also available. Based on author Tom Pace’s experiences, this...
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Parent, Teacher, Mentor, Friend: How Every Adult Can Change Kids’ Lives
Parent, Teacher, Mentor, Friend: How Every Adult Can Change Kids’ LivesPeter L. BensonSearch Institute Press198 pages. “Society does not have a youth...
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Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Online Diarist
Entry 6 and Entry 7: Springing into a Slump Because a few blogs in row were time sensitive, we had to bump...
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How We Changed Our Name
In 2009, the American Humanics board of directors moved forward to study changing the organization’s name. Perhaps it would have been easier...
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Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Diarist
I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but at least y’all will listen to my rant about the slicing, dicing legislatures...
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Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Diarist
Well, here I sit at home once again as Mother Nature blows sleet and snow all over this totally unprepared city. Dallas...
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Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Diarist
As all of you know, the Super Bowl is coming to Dallas. Well here’s a side to it that you never hear...
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Strong Leadership, and a Smart Waiver, Transform Child Welfare in Florida
Shortly after then-Gov. Jeb Bush named her to run the Florida Department of Children and Families in 1999, Kathleen Kearney changed the...
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Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Diarist
Happy New Year, Everyone! During the holidays, I came up with a small list of resolutions our government should make in 2011...
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The Teen Guide to Sex Without Regrets
The Teen Guide to Sex Without RegretsTeen writers at Youth Communication and Andrea Estepa, Keith Hefner, Laura Longhine, Rachel Blustain and Nora...
