Archives: 2014 & Earlier

The Secret of Willow Ridge: Gabe’s Dad Finds Recovery

  Helen H. Moore, illustrated by John C. Blackford Central Recovery Press 121 pages. $12.95 paperback. One Saturday morning, 10-year-old Gabe’s shaky,...

Iaam.com

http://www.iaam.com Described by its creators as a “teen entertainment and life skills multimedia network,” this site provides information to youth about careers,...

Office of Urban Affairs

http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/oua/ The White House offers a new page for its Office of Urban Affairs website that chronicles the office’s activities. Users will...

Fostering Media Connections

http://www.fosteringmediaconnections.org/ Site visitors can follow the Fostering Media Connections blog, updated with stories, articles and videos related to the organization’s events and...

Workforce3 One

http://www.workforce3one.org/page/grants_toolkit Grant applicants can use the tools on this website for guidance when applying for grants from the Labor Department’s Employment and...

Young Mothers @ The Margin

http://www.atthemargin.org Every page has links to the organization’s “Get Involved” YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and store pages. The home page allows viewers to...

CBS News Interviews Patrick Boyle About the Scouts’ Perversion Files

Reach At-Risk and Underserved Youth Through Performing Arts

  The requirements of the No Child Left Behind act have resulted in arts education being cut out of public school budgets...

Los Angeles Team Mentoring

  “Toilet paper cheerleader competition”: Mentor Dennis Goggin, of the Disney Channel, with his new team during team-building exercises at James Madison...

Ryan Plantz

  Ryan Plantz Eagle Rock School and Professional Development Center/Public Allies Estes Park, Colo.(970) 586-0600 http://www.eaglerockschool.org Age: 25. Salary: Stipend of about...

Awards for March 2010

Corps Foundation Annual Awards Alejandro Lopez William Brandt By: The Corps Foundation Contact: Sarah Stankorb (202) 737-6272, sstankorb@corpsnetwork.org, http://www.corpsnetwork.org. Syd Howe Lifetime...

We Deserve Better Sex Ed

  By Meklit Gebre-Mariam, 16L.A. YOUTH, LOS ANGELES I took health class two years ago in the summer and I’m not sure...

The “Talk”: Are Schools Doing It Right?

  By Anonymous, 17  NEW YOUTH CONNECTIONS, NEW YORK Have your parents ever tried to give you “the talk”? My dad tried...

Targeting All Parents

  Nearly 15 years ago, first lady Hillary Clinton popularized the old African proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child.”...

Shout It Out: The Voices Project Movie

  Bess O’BrienKingdom County Productions90 minutes. DVD, two study guides, one CD soundtrack: $150. Based on interviews with a thousand Vermont teenagers...

Two Moms in My Heart: Teens Explore the Adoption Option

  Edited by Al DesettaYouth Communication123 pages. $12 paperback Placed in foster care at age 2, Lishoné Bowsky hardly knows her birth...

50 Best College Majors for a Secure Future

  Laurence Shatkin and the Editors at JistJIST Works/JIST Publishing330 pages. $15.95 paperback. What could have more allure than the promise of...

Condom Nation: The U.S. Government’s Sex Education Campaign from World War I to the Internet

  Alexandra M. LordThe Johns Hopkins University Press224 pages. $40. This fascinating history of the past hundred years of sex education in...

University of New Hampshire Center for Professional Excellence in Child Welfare

  http://www.unh.edu/cpe New Hampshire’s Division for Children, Youth, & Families (DCYF) has teamed with the University of New Hampshire to offer employees...

Child Welfare Information Gateway – State Statutes, System Reforms

  http://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/laws_policies/state Users can search for state laws on child abuse and neglect, child welfare and adoption on this feature of the...