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Disability.gov

http://www.disability.gov/ Managed by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), in partnership with 21 other federal agencies, the...

PolicyforResults

http://www.policyforresults.org Operated out of Washington, D.C., the Center for the Study of Social Policy is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that promotes...

GreatNonprofits

http://www.greatnonprofits.org Visitors to http://Greatnonprofits.org can find, review and discuss nonprofit organizations with ease. The website features user-generated content so visitors can...

The Workshop Out of School

Anne-E WoodPerforming Arts Workshop44 pages. $10 paperback, free download. Since 1965, the Performing Arts Workshop in San Francisco has transformed young...

A Video Essay on Teenage Grief

Hospice Volunteer Services of Addison CountyMcMulti Production, distributed by Fanlight Productions75 minutes. DVD $249. When sisters Amanda and Meghan were in elementary...

Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson

Sharon Robinson; illustratedby Kadir NelsonScholastic Press40 pages. $16.99. Sharing a family incident from her childhood, Sharon Robinson bears testament to her...

Girls Gone Activist! How to Change the World Through Education

Edited by Joanne Conelly, Gaëlle Dessus, Anna Diarra, et al. Youth Activism Project, School Girls Unite 118 pages. $16 paperback. Free full-color...

International Young Eco-Hero Awards

Adarsha Shivakumar and Apoorva Rangan For: Youth ages 8 to 16, for projects in environmental advocacy, environmental health, or research, particularly...

Awards for September 2009

Spirit of Service Awards For: Volunteers and Corporation for National and Community Service members who have performed exemplary service in their communities....

… Create Internships that Lead to Jobs

Pipeline to jobs: Groups like Solar One, which trains teens for “green” jobs, use internships to prepare disadvantaged youth for work and...

Independent Living Unit

Allegheny County Department of Human ServicesPittsburgh, Pa.(412) 350-5701http://www.alleghenycounty.us/dhs Objective: To provide assistance to youth aging out of the child welfare system...

Nancy Morales, Young Workers Project Coordinator

Nancy Morales UCLA-Labor Occupational Safety and Health (LOSH) Program – Young Workers Project Los Angeles(310)794-5964http://www.losh.ucla.edu/youngworkers Age: 26 Salary: Around $35,000 annually. My...

Taming the Wild Ones

Represent, New York My parents and foster parents never taught me manners. I mean, I’m sure my mom and dad taught...

My Personal Trainer

LA Youth, Los Angeles (Names have been changed.) A few years ago, I was in a group home in West Los...

Technology Boosts Youth Assets

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation launched the Community Access to Technology (CAT) program in 1999 to help provide local communities in...

Public Charter Schools Job Board

http://jobs.publiccharters.org Charter school employers and their prospective employees can search for one another on this site, a tool of the nonprofit charter...

Great Science for Girls: Webcasts

http://www.edequity.org/gsg/about/webcasts Engaging girls in science is the focus of this 40-minute webcast of a PowerPoint and audio presentation recorded in March. Presented...

TeenNewsNet

http://www.teennewsnet.com This site, which bills itself as having “everything that matters to today’s teen,” combines staff interviews and advice columns covering topics...

Safety LMK

http://lmk.girlscouts.org This Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. venture stresses online safety in its pitch for girls to empower themselves through the Internet....

When Kids Hurt: Help for Adults Navigating the Adolescent Maze

Chap Clark, Steve RabeyBaker Books208 pages. $13.99 paperback. Adolescence, according to Chap Clark, senior editor of YouthWorker Journal and professor at...