Youth Today
Archives: 2014 & Earlier
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Nineline
Through this electronic version of its counseling hotline, (800) 999-9999, the nonprofit Covenant House tries to help youth in crisis over families,...
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Learn to Mentor
This online course offers everything needed to “fully prepare you to be a mentor,” says its founder, The National Mentoring Partnership. The...
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Drug Prevention News Wire
The U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy has launched a free RSS news feature about drug education and prevention. Users can...
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Web Watch for April 2002
Education BBC Education Online: Count Me Inwww.bbc.co.uk/education/revisewise is a part of BBC Online’s enormous education site dedicated to children. Created as...
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Beyond Planting Trees
Like a lot of community-based organizations aimed at troubled youth, the Oasis Center in Nashville began by trying to do a lot...
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Teens Buying Books at Fastest Rate in Decades
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Book sales to teens are booming – up by more than 25 percent since 1999, according to one industry analysis....
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Working Together for the Sake of the Kids
Chicago Tribune Child welfare experts say that over the past decade, child-welfare systems have shifted toward more collaborative relationships between birth and...
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Faith’s Battlefield
San Francisco Chronicle TeenMania is a $23 million-a-year nonprofit that stages three huge “BattleCry” rock concerts and 35 smaller “Acquire the Fire”...
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After-School Jobs Take Their Toll
The Marietta (Ga.) Times Nearly eight in 10 U.S. teens work during their high school years. But parents, teachers and experts worry...
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Community Uniting Against Gangs
The Denver Post Six years after it was forced to disband after losing major funding, the Metro Denver Gang Coalition has revived...
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Concerned About Juvenile Sex Offenders, States Move to Tighten Their Regulations
Education Week Several states are rethinking how they deal with juvenile sex offenders who are enrolled in schools. Recent cases in which...
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Seattle Youth Garden Works
Seattle, Wash. (206) 632-0352 http://www.sygw.org Objective of the program: Provide job training to homeless and underserved youth. In a Nutshell: Seattle Youth...
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Taryn Roberts
Taryn Roberts Chapter Support Coordinator Idaho Drug Free Youth Coeur d’Alene, Idaho (208) 664-4339 http://www.idahodrugfreeyouth.org Age: 22 Salary: $4,000 a year, for...
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Awards for April 2007
Spirit of Youth Award For: Individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to America’s youth. By: National Runaway Switchboard. Winner: Rapper...
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Fatuous Promises May Yield Promising Profit for Kids
Source: America’s Promise, grant proposal to CNCS, 2002 Could it be a decade since the “ready, fire, aim” Philadelphia launch of America’s...
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Coloring Outside the Lines
New Youth Connections, New York (All names have been changed.) I didn’t think much about race until seventh grade, when I...
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Come and Get It: Free Evaluations
RICHMAN: “We as academics are quick to say, ‘You should do this,’ when we don’t understand” what nonprofits are “up against.” What...
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Sleep Problems
Northwest Media 45 minutes. $99. A course for parents of foster and adopted children on how to approach common sleep disorders in...
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Quick Scripture Reference for Counseling Youth
Patricia A. Miller and Keith R. Miller Baker Publishing Group 256 pages. $12.99. A concise, topical guide to the Bible that helps...
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Game Over: Women in Prison
NEWIST/CESA 7 30 minutes. $149. This documentary, taped by inmates at Taycheedah Correctional Institution in Wisconsin, is intended to show young girls...
