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Feds Find it Painful to PART

Youth-serving programs might take comfort in knowing that even federal agencies feel the pain of funding, designing and conducting program evaluations. The...

JACS Tossed By Job Corps

JACS Tossed By Job Corps It would be hard to imagine a more innocuous do-gooder, national youth-serving organization than Joint Action in...

Inspiring Kids to Get Active

If you make cars or deodorant, it’s relatively easy to see the effect of your advertisements: Look at sales. But if you...

The Billion-Dollar Youth Worker

The crown prince of congressional funding for youth services is moving on. Robbie Callaway, senior vice president of government relations at the...

Aniak Dragon Slayers

Aniak, Alaska(907) 675-4601 Objective: Train youth volunteers to help a rural fire department on emergency calls, and help pay college expenses...

Teen Centers, Complete with Teens

So you’re going to create a safe teen center in your town, and teens are actually going to hang out there? Yeah,...

Make ’em Sweat

When it comes to the kinds of activities to provide for kids, after-school programs have been getting two loud and competing messages....

A Heckuva Job

A Heckuva Job The Bush administration fiasco that unfolded along the Gulf Coast last month painfully brought to public attention the truth...

Fighting Gangs: What Doesn’t Work

Getting kids to avoid or withdraw from gangs is among the most difficult tasks in youth work, and a fresh set of...

Mountaineer Challenge Academy

Kingwood, W.Va.(304) 329-2118www.wvchallenge.org Objective: Help at-risk youth obtain GEDs and develop life skills. In a Nutshell: This 22-week residential program uses...

The Ring Thing

An abstinence-only youth program has had its federal funding suspended because it used taxpayer dollars to promote religion.An investigation by the U.S....

Getting Evaluated – and Noticed

It’s a common and much complained-about paradox: How can nonprofit youth-serving agencies pay for the rigorous evaluations that funders require, when no...

Swept Away TV

Boca Raton, Fla.(561) 241-9110www.sweptawaytv.com Objective: Train youth to work in the media and give them an opportunity to run a TV...

Youth development grows outdoors, at low cost

To a lot of kids, Jimmy would have been just another worm. But for many of the children in New York’s Central...

Money 101

When the National Council on Economic Education gave an economics quiz to 2,242 high schoolers early this year, 60 percent of them...

Assessing After-School Programs

While it may take a village to raise a child, it seems to take even more to assess the quality of...

Covenant House: Nihil Obstat

No youth-serving agency in living memory has had such spectacular financial success or suffered as spectacular a scandal as New York-based Covenant...

Renaissance Scholars Program

Santa Cruz, Calif. (831) 459-2424renaissance_scholars@ucsc.edu Objective: Help foster youth get into college and stay there. In a Nutshell: Provides youth from high...