Youth Today
Archives: 2014 & Earlier
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State, Families at Odds over Mental Care for Foster Kids
Arizona Republic In order to make it more attractive for families to adopt foster children, Arizona says it will provide monthly stipends...
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Being Different; Staying Safe
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin Once a month, in a downtown Walla Walla, Wash., coffee shop, about a dozen lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender...
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Making Technology Meaningful
Get animated: Clay and cameras enable youths at Atlanta After-School All-Stars to create clay animation projects. Photo: Atlanta After-School All-Stars OK, so...
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Niroga Institute
Oakland, Calif.(510) 451-3004http://www.niroga.org Reaching out to homeless, delinquent and incarcerated youth through yoga. Photo: Niroga Institute. Objective: Make yoga available to those...
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Tiffany Carson
Tiffany Carson Co-DirectorTalk About It! Spartanburg, S.C.(864) 529-5430Talkaboutit1@gmail.com Age: 32 Salary: $30,000 About Talk About It!: This program, run by the Mt....
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Awards for April 2008
Big payday: Stacy Cho, winner of the Ruckus Nation Award. Ruckus Nation Awards For: Individuals or groups who conceived an idea for...
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A Cure for Tedium
Vox, Atlanta Sitting in class one day, scribbling endless notes, I started to daydream. I imagined myself at the park with the...
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The Xerox Complex
Vox, Atlanta “This has to be a crime,” I thought to myself bitterly. “Two inches. … Two inches is the limit, and...
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Home-Grown Success
Wolner: “We’ve had some pretty powerful people that have gotten behind it.” Photo: Barron County Restorative Justice Program Location, location, location. Is...
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Global GraffitiWall
Tamara Sniad, Claudia Weisburd, Joana Davis-DíazCenter for Afterschool Education/Foundations76 pages. $24.95. This partner to GraffitiWall contains international-themed activities that build geography and...
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Please Stop Laughing at Us … One Survivor’s Extraordinary Quest to Prevent School Bullying
Jodee BlancoBenBella Books/Independent Publishers Group443 pages. $14.95. In this sequel to Please Stop Laughing at Me, her best-selling memoir about being bullied...
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New Directions for Youth Development: Sports-Based Youth Development, No. 115, Fall 2007
Edited by Daniel F. Perkins, Suzanne Le MenestralJossey-Bass123 pages. $29. For the 40 million U.S. youth between ages 5 and 17 who...
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The Encyclopedia of Sports Parenting
Dan Doyle withDeborah Doermann BurchHall of Fame Press478 pages. $39.95. Doyle, a former high school and college basketball coach and a sports...
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An Invited Threat
Steven Keewatin Sanderson, Thomas Deer, Tania WillardThe Healthy Aboriginal Network44 pages. $5. Bulk pricing for five or more copies. Produced by a...
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The Trouble with Black Boys … and Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education
Pedro A. NogueraJossey-Bass306 pages. $24.95. While researchers disagree about the reasons for the struggles of young African-American males, here an urban sociologist...
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Men on a Mission: Valuing Youth Work in Our Communities
William MarsiglioThe Johns Hopkins University Press381 pages. $30 (paperback). Observing 55 men of all ages who work in paid or volunteer positions...
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Afterschool Investments Project
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/afterschool A project of the Child Care Bureau in the U.S. Administration on Children and Families, this site promotes high-quality after-school programming....
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NCAA Guide for the College-Bound Student-Athlete
http://www2.ncaa.org/portal/media_and_events/ncaa_publications/general_interest/cbsa.html This online guide from the National Collegiate Athletic Association helps high school athletes, their coaches and their families navigate the college...
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Engineer Girl!
http://www.engineergirl.org This kid-friendly site from the National Academy of Engineering encourages girls to pursue careers in engineering with “cool readings,” facts about...
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Safety Net for Youth
http://www.safetynetforyouth.org To help foster collaboration among professionals working with runaway and homeless youth, National Safe Place – a youth outreach program that...
