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Of Pork and Baked Alaska

SEN. STEVENS FEEDING HAPPY THE HIPPOPOTAMUS: One of them is where he belongs – behind bars. Wondering about that weeping and chattering...

My Father’s Dream or Mine

New Youth Connections, New York “You want to be a what?” My dad looked at me like I had four eyes. “An...

Mandatory Senior Projects are Too Career-Oriented

20 BELOW, Eugene, Ore. I don’t want to bash someone’s grand plan to help high school kids, but something has to change. School...

Awards for March 2007

Laura Bush presents Alicia Guadalupe Montero Perez, center left, and Ingrid Janet Noh Canto, center right, both of La Chacara Children’s Cultural...

Does Staff Training Improve Youth Work?

Jutta Dotterweich Youth worker training is getting more and more attention, but the largely unanswered question for funders is whether it makes...

Breaking the Silence: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Foster Youth Tell Their Stories

National Center for Lesbian Rights, Free. “I won’t sit in the dark and be a hanger. The only things in the closet...

How to Feed a Teenage Boy

Georgia OrcuttTen Speed Press240 pages. $14.95. A nutrition guide and recipe book for parents and youth workers looking for healthy meal options...

The Clinical Assessment of Children and Adolescents

Edited by Steven Smith and Leonard HandlerLawrence Erlbaum Associates628 pages. $95. A handbook for clinicians working with younger populations that outlines the...

Violence in America’s Schools: Understanding, Prevention, and Responses

R. Murray ThomasPraeger Pulishers259 pages. $44.95. Intended to help youth workers and social workers more fully understand the various forms of violence...

Understanding Youth: Adolescent Development for Educators

Michael Nakkula and Eric ToshalisHarvard Education Press304 pages. $29.95. A broad compilation of practical, theoretical and empirical information about youth development. The...

Staff Selection: Choose with Care

Meredith KiralyHaworth Press163 pages. $24.95. A hiring guide for providers of residential care. The first of the book’s two sections gives a...

Teen Obesity: How Schools Can be the Number One

Solution to the ProblemWilliam L. FibkinsRowman and Littlefield Education219 pages. $24.95. An action plan for parents, school leaders and community activists to...

The Last Normal Child: Essays on the Intersection of Kids, Culture, and Psychiatric Drugs

Lawrence Diller Praeger Publishers150 pages. $39.95. This collection of essays for health professionals discusses the psychiatric diagnosis and medical treatment of emotional...

National Young Worker Safety Resource Center

http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~safejobs/nation/index.html The center provides training, technical assistance and resource materials to states and community groups interested in the health and safety of...

The Center for Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence

http://www.spiritualdevelopmentcenter.org With financial support from the John Templeton Foundation, the Search Institute has launched an international, multi-faith and interdisciplinary initiative to advance...

Tribal Justice and Safety in Indian Country

http://www.usdoj.gov/tribaljusticeandsafety This new U.S. Office of Justice Programs (OJP) site provides information about courts, corrections, law enforcement, crime statistics, crime prevention, and...

Media Magic Digest

http://www.unicef.org/voy/explore/media/3447.htm The media efforts of young people around the world are showcased by this quarterly e-newsletter that aims to promote dialogue between...

The Shyness Home Page

http://www.shyness.com Sponsored by the Shyness Institute, Los Altos, Calif., the site gathers resources for those seeking information and services regarding shyness. It...

Applied and Interactive Theatre Guide

http://tonisant.com/aitg The site supports the work of theatre professionals who use their skills to help change behaviors and build awareness of various...

A Data Shortage Yields Unplanned Lessons

When the researchers responsible for evaluating the federal Title V Community Prevention Grants Program realized that virtually none of the program’s grantees...