Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Peace Corps Library

  http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=library The library offers easy-to-read resources originally intended for use by Peace Corps volunteers, but useful to any community workers, particularly...

2008 “Teens and Entrepreneurship” Poll

Junior Achievement Teens are less interested in starting their own businesses than they were a year ago.

Young Offender Grants from DOL: Act Now!

Gotta love it when a federal agency announces grant availability with a deadline that is only a month later. The Department of...

Staffers Convicted in Youth’s Death

Three former employees of a residential treatment program in Louisiana have been convicted of negligent homicide and cruelty to a juvenile, after...

Tattoos Gain Even More Visibility

THE NEW YORK TIMES In recent years, neck and hand tattoos – once reserved for criminals or people who had filled the...

DOL YouthBuild: Quantity over Quality?

The Department of Labor’s Employment Training Administration put out a notice of funding for 2009 YouthBuild grants, which pay for education and...

League Founder Gunned Down at Trophy Ceremony

The founder of a community basketball league in Philadelphia was shot and killed on Sept. 11, along with one of his players,...

Adopt a Social Worker

Best Dressed: Volunteers from a congregation display donations from a clothing drive for youth. Photo: Covenant to Care for Children Bloomfield, Conn.(860)...

Feedback: Letters, E-mails and Web Postings

  Career Ladder Opportunities Thanks for the article on Hector Fabio Urrea in September (“Climbing Career Ladders”). There are numerous ways that...

Employment and Unemployment among Youth – Summer 2008

From April to July this year, the number of employed 16- to 24-year-old "youth" increased by 1.9 million, to 21 million, according...

What Works for Youth Workers? Next Gen’s ‘Lessons Learned’

In 2007, the Next Generation Youth Work Coalition launched its Clear Policies for Career Pathways initiative to identify efforts under way across...

Seattle Takes on Youth/Gang Violence

Seattle has a youth gang problem. We won’t couch that with the media frenzy terms like “surging juvenile violence” or “growing gang...

9,311 Child Labor Violations Filed Against Iowa Slaughterhouse

Descriptive Summary of 2003-04 Beginning Postsecondary Students: Three Years Later

National Center for Education Statistics Most first-time students who begin their post-secondary education at four-year institutions are 19 or younger (85 percent),...

Social Workers and Human Resource Managers in High Demand as Weak Economy Hits Home for Many

Jobfox Social workers and counselors are ranked as the seventh most in-demand professionals, according to the June report from Jobfox, an online...

Climbing Career Ladders: More youth workers forge their own paths, but payoff remains iffy

  Manchester, N.H.—Until recently, youth-services coordinator Hector Fabio Urrea worked two jobs to make ends meet. For youth workers, that part of...

Climbing Career Ladders: In England, youth work education pays

  Birkenhead, England—From an American point of view, Kai Wooder seems an unlikely candidate to get a degree in youth work. She...

How Not to Run Youth Employment

When it comes to expanding a youth employment program, you can have too much of a good thing. That’s what happened in...

Another State Bans Prone Restraints

Pennsylvania has become the fifth state to ban youth residential programs from using prone restraints, which can lead to accidental asphyxiation or...

Meat Plant Raid Nets Child Labor Charges

By Grace Lavigne The Iowa attorney general is considering whether to file criminal charges against the owners of the nation’s largest kosher...