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Project Reach Out: Building Effective Partnerships Between the Workforce System and Community Organizations

Seedco40 pages. Free download. Based on its experience with integrating faith-based and community organizations into Workforce Investment Boards (WIBs) and One-Stop Career...

Girls Sports and Eating Disorders: What’s the Connection?

Aquarius Health Care Media27 minutes. DVD $145. What “hidden dangers” lurk in girls’ sports? Ninth-grader Allison dieted and exercised so strenuously that...

Eight Stories Up: An Adolescent Chooses Hope Over Suicide

DeQuincy A. Lezine, David BrentOxford University Press, with the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands and the Annenberg Public Policy Center194 pages. $30...

Finding Resources to Support Mentoring Programs and Services for Youth

The Finance Project32 pages. Free. This guide explores three strategies for financing and sustaining mentoring programs and services: building partnerships with businesses...

Sparks: How Parents Can Help Ignite the Hidden Strengths of Teenagers

Peter L. BensonJossey-Bass/Wiley235 pages. $24.95. Building on Search Institute’s 40 Developmental Assets, Benson, the institute’s CEO, introduces “sparks” – shorthand for “follow...

Mousetraps

Pat SchmatzCarolrhoda Books/Lerner Publishing Group192 pages. $18.95. Until Rick shows up in high school chemistry class the first day of junior year...

Street Law

http://www.streetlaw.org Showcasing issues concerning law, democracy and human rights, this site offers teachers, students, lawyers, law enforcement officials and government officials...

MENTOR Online Community – Musing on Mentoring

http://forums.mentoring.org/ntlm/blog?blog.id=musings_on_mentoring This weekly blog revolves around a mentor’s experiences and enables users to comment with their views and questions. Topics...

Boost

http://boostup.org This slick multimedia site strives to help high school students graduate. The site includes a sign-up for...

National Sexuality Research Center

http://nsrc.sfsu.edu/ Offering a comprehensive collection of the latest information and research on sexual health, education and reproductive rights, this site targets...

The Children’s Aid Society

http://www.childrensaidsociety.org Children’s Aid, which provides a variety of services to New York City’s at-risk youth, has launched a new series of...

Peace Corps Library

http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=library The library offers easy-to-read resources originally intended for use by Peace Corps volunteers, but useful to any community workers, particularly...

On the Move – November 2008

American Legacy Foundation Cheryl Healton, CEO Moves to: 1724 Massachusetts Ave. NW Washington, DC 20036 (202) 454-5555 Christy Pichel, president Moves...

Work With Youths In Gangs

Almost every city with a gang problem has its offering of solutions, ranging from police crackdowns and job training to tutoring and...

Profiles of Families that Have Used the Safe Haven Law

THE OMAHA WORLD-HERALD Since Sept. 1, eight families have utilized Nebraska’s recently enacted “safe haven” law, which allows parents or guardians to...

Banned Books, Chapter 2

WASHINGTON POST Conservative Christian students and parents recently gathered outside a Virginia high school to protest the banning of anti-homosexual books they...

Hard Times Complicate Recruiting of Foster Parents

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/THE OREGONIAN The nation’s economic crisis is making it difficult for child welfare officials to find foster parents for youth....