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National Guard Youth-Reclamation Program Rises to the ChalleNGe

The Basics Launched in 1993 as a small, five-year demonstration project designed by the U.S. Defense Department’s National Guard Bureau to...

New Directions for Youth Development: Community Organizing and Youth Advocacy

Edited by Sarah Deschenes, Milbrey McLaughlin, Anne Newman Jossey-Bass/Wiley 136 pages. $23.20. Subscription $85 (1 year, 4 issues). Recent achievements by community...

Teen Girls and Technology: What’s the Problem, What’s the Solution?

Lesley FarmerTeachers College Press/ALA Editions192 pages. $52, $21.95 paperback. “Digital native” teenage girls understand technology, don’t they? Not enough to handle the...

The Nonprofit Career Guide

Shelly Cryer Fieldstone Alliance/American Humanics 284 pages. $18.95. This insightful handbook is for job seekers in all nonprofit fields who would like...

Girls Against Girls: Why We Are Mean to Each Other and How We Can Change

Bonnie BurtonZest Books/Orange Avenue Publishing128 pages. $12.95. In a “let’s work together” spirit, this paperback delivers digestible and thought-provoking advice on how...

A Reason to Live

Cynthia Salzman Mondell and Allen MondellMedia Projects, Inc. 52 minutes adult version, 32 minutes high school/college version. DVD $199 for universities and...

Street Child

Justin Reed EarlyAuthorHouse (self-published)289 pages. $19.99 ($15.99 paperback). Justin Early is a survivor. In his late 30s, an invitation to serve on...

Policy For Results

www.policyforresults.org This new site offers an array of up-to-date resources and policy strategies to state and local policymakers on issues that affect...

Help Starts Here

http://www.helpstartshere.org In a partnership with several schools of social work, this National Association of Social Workers site educates the public and connects...

TeenHealthFX

www.teenhealthfx.com Funded by two hospitals and maintained with help from teens and community leaders, the site addresses such emotional health issues as...

Mpower

http://www.mpoweryouth.org Sponsored by Mental Health America, the site harnesses the emotional appeal of music to reach out to youth, with tips on...

Teen Source

www.teensource.org Intended to inform youths 13 and older about a wide range of sexual health topics, the site uses video testimonials, links...

Free Vibe

http://www.freevibe.com Set up for the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, this site gives all sorts of...

Information for Practice (IP)

http://blogs.nyu.edu/blogs/gh5/ip Formerly “World Wide Web Resources for Social Workers,” IP helps social service professionals throughout the world maintain their awareness of breaking...

Watch: Foster Care in America

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Youth Today is On the Move

1331 H St., NW, Suite 701 Washington, DC 20005 Phone, fax and e-mails remain the same.

Green Jobs: Good Work If Youth Can Find It

THE NATION Young community activists nationwide are organizing efforts to solve two of the nation’s pressing problems at once: reducing the unemployment...

More Students Turning Illegally to ‘Smart’ Drugs

NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO Students on college campuses across the country are increasingly turning to illegally obtained prescription medications to increase their concentration...

East Palo Alto Poised to Launch Youth Court

Nizam Harris, 12, is sworn in as the defendant during a mock trial for the newly created youth court in East...

Provide Summer Employment

Mayor’s Youth Employment and Education Program (MYEEP) Summer youth employment programs face uncertain prospects this year. The economy is shedding jobs and...