Youth Today
Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
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Newsmakers for November 2006
Nonprofits Judy Nee officially became the first person to serve as the board president and CEO of the 18-year-old, Boston-based National AfterSchool...
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The Rising Voices of Foster Parents
When Daniele and Steve Baxter took over the Foster Parent Association of Washington State in 2004, the organization was in a tight...
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After Katrina: YouthBuild Hammers Back
North Gulfport, Miss. — An unforgiving sun beat down, making the work of rebuilding a partly leveled city all the more burdensome....
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Research of Note for October 2006
Capturing Promising Practices in Recruitment and Retention of Frontline Youth WorkersCornerstones for Kids/National Collaboration for YouthAvailable free at www.nassembly.org/nydic/documents/CompletePublication.pdf. The Human Services...
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Safe Sitter
Indianapolis, Ind.(800) 255-4089www.safesitter.org Objective: Improve the welfare of young children by increasing the number of young adolescents instructed in safe child-care...
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Recreation, Curfews and Depression: Major Problems Confront Youth
In addition to the long-term challenges of reforming the major city and state systems for New Orleans’ youth, some specific problems won’t...
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Policy and Practice: Will The Gap Ever Close?
Youth workers’ lack of knowledge about and engagement in public policy issues has been noted time and time again at professional gatherings...
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Men’s Sufferage in Youth Work
The quiet rebellion over men at the YWCA began seven years ago in Olympia, Wash., and Tucson, Ariz. In a move that...
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Summer Jobs Forcast: Dry
Summer Jobs Forcast: Dry Teens might be in for another job drought this summer. For the sixth summer in a row, teens...
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Plugging In Disconnected Youth
The statistics can be depressing: One-third of all Americans drop out of school. Only half of African-American, Latino and American Indian youth...
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The Quality Conundrum
Conventional wisdom says the quality of youth work programs rests in no small measure on the quality of the program staff. But...
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Research of Note for April 2006
America’s Youth at 18: School Enrollment and Employment Transitions Between Ages 17 and 18 Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor...
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Research of Note for March 2006
Feasibility of Screening Adolescents for Suicide Risk in "Real-World" High School Settings PIRE Chapel Hill CenterAbstract available at www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/96/2/282 In September...
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Forget Hip-Hop; Get YCC
A civil war is brewing in youth work force development centers. It pits many veteran youth workers against a younger crowd that...
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When Youth Job Training is Job 1
Chances are, if you’re not old enough to vote, you’re not pulling in a paycheck. Today’s teens face the most dismal job...
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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...
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Katrina’s Harsh Winds of Change
The Children’s Coalition for Northeast Louisiana (CCNL) is based in Monroe, safely tucked away from the winds of Hurricane Katrina and the...
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Getting Out of Our Funk
I’m in a funk. I’ll bet you are, too. Those of us who value young people, who give our all in the...
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Youth Work in Hurricanes
The Impact: Buildings lost, staff and kids scattered The executive director of the Youth Empowerment Project was trying to hold her...
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Those Determined to Teach Do Youth Work
More than 15 years ago, I began using a twist on an old saying as a way to get discussions started about...
