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Awards for June 2007

Presidential Spirit of Community Awards For: Middle and high school youth who have made outstanding service contributions through volunteering. By: Prudential Financial...

School Daze

Represent, New York There I was on the train to visit City-As-School for the first time. It was an alternative school for...

My Escape from High School

New Youth Connections, New York When I think about all the years I spent sitting in class, what stands out is an...

OJJDP’s Missing Link

Let’s say your program jumps on the evidence-based bandwagon and spends lots of time and money to develop a high-tech performance measurement...

Cyber.rules: What You Really Need to Know About the Internet

Joanie Farley Gillispie and Jayne Gackenbach W.W. Norton & Co. 272 pages. $23.95. The Internet has massively changed the way we identify...

Service Without Guns

Donald Eberly and Reuven Gal Lulu Self Publishing (ID 231571) 196 pages. Free to download; $25 in print. Fostering a culture of...

Repairing the Harm: Restorative Justice

Newist 30 minutes. $149. A great resource for anyone who wishes to advocate a rehabilitative approach to reaching young offenders. The video...

Comes the Darkness, Comes the Light

Vanessa Vega American Management Association 220 pages. $21.95. A look at the dangerous world of self-cutting, a way of suppressing serious emotional...

Darkness Calls

The Healthy Aboriginal Network 42 pages. $5.35. (Bulk prices available.) A terrific artistic rendering of a struggle faced by many Native American...

Don’t Stress Out About It: Stress Management for Teens

Aquarius 45 minutes. $145. A simple presentation about the stresses that teens routinely deal with, such as weight gain, home strife and...

When Nothing Matters Anymore: A Survival Guide for Depressed Teens

Bev Cobain Free Spirit 145 pages. $14.95. If there is a “light” way to broach the subjects of depression and suicide, Cobain...

Changes

CRU Institute 30 minutes. $95. “I want to do something with my life. That has nothing to do with me being black,”...

What Kids Really Want to Ask: Using Movies to Start Meaningful Conversations

Rhonda Richardson and A. Margaret Pevec VanderWyk & Burnham 200 pages. $12.95. How was school? Who are you hanging out with? Adults...

Ripple Kids

www.ripplekids.com By publicizing the good works of kids across the nation, the nonprofit Ripple Kids hopes to inspire and empower other youth...

Child Welfare Leagueof America

Christine James-Brown, CEO Moves to: 2345 Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA 22202-4801 (703) 412-2400, http://www.cwla.org Peggy Sanchez Mills, CEO Moves to: 1220 19th...

Breaking the Cycle

The Spokesman Review (Spokane, Wash.) Studies show that about one in four childhood victims of abuse are likely to abuse or neglect...

A Rocky Path Back to School

The Boston Globe Last summer, two outreach workers began trying to persuade the 1,660 students who dropped out of Boston’s public schools...

Losing Juvenile Jails Aids Justice, Some Say

The Times-Picayune (New Orleans) The floods that followed Hurricane Katrina wiped out all 132 beds at New Orleans’ two juvenile detention facilities....

American-Born Children of Illegal Immigrants Face Difficult Decision When Parents Deported

The San Diego Union-Tribune Many of the 18,000 adults deported since June under an initiative of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

Churches Turning to a Ministry of ‘Fear’

The Star-Ledger (Newark, N.J.) “Fear Factor”-style youth ministry events, in which teens are challenged to consume stomach-churning items or perform gross, messy...