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Research of Note for February 2003

Some research provides new information that surprises us, while other studies help us think about why a well-accepted assumption is true. Results...

Letters to the Editor

Front-Line Youth WorkersLorenzo D. Harrison, AdministratorOffice of Youth ServicesU.S. Department of LaborWashington, DC Thanks for the honorable mention in your editorial [October]...

Y-Line

Springfield, Mo.(417) 887-4343 Objective: To provide employment, job training and social skills practice to poor teens who face barriers to employment...

News Briefs for October 2002

Checking Up on Child Workers: The new head of Florida’s Department of Children and Families, Jerry Regier, said the beleaguered agency will...

Community Youth Corps

Baltimore, Md.(410) 396-5356dtaylor@epfl.net Objective: Provide service-learning opportunities for youth and help them see libraries as valuable resources. In a Nutshell: The...

Web Watch for May 2002

Civic Engagement Suitcases for Kidswww.suitcasesforkids.orgis the website for the group founded by then-10-year-old Aubyn Burnside to collect suitcases for foster care...

Touted Venture Shows Stress In Coordinating Youth Services

Minneapolis—For more than a decade this city’s youth coordinating board has been hailed as a national model, winning an award from the...

Press Watch for March 2002

Child welfare nonprofit says give it timeTampa Tribune An experiment to privatize child welfare in two Florida counties isn’t going so well,...

Staff Shortages Abets Attack on Counselor

High staff turnover and yawning job vacancy rates may have contributed to the vicious attack on a New York youth worker Feb....

Draft Objector Sentenced to Ames, Stays for Life

By Linda Lutton Ames, Iowa—When George Belitsos first rolled into town in his Volkswagen in 1971, this college town had a growing...

A Youth Worker’s Bumpy Road to National Success

ONE DAY, ALL CHILDREN… The Unlikely Triumph of TEACH FOR AMERICA and What I Learned Along The WayWendy KoppPublicAffairs, New York187 pp.,...

How a Song and A Prayer Opened Washington’s Wallet

No one pries money from the federal government for youth programs like Wintley Phipps. He sings. He sings to presidents. He...

Youths Create Teen Center, Knife Kills

By Frank KlimkoSumter, S.C. henever youth worker Barbara Brown drives her beige Toyota Corolla past the boarded-up brick building behind the...

Economic Boom Leaves Youth Agency Jobs Empty

By Martha Nichols Boston—Last year Sargent House, a proposed 12-bed home for adolescent boys, looked like it had achieved youth work nirvana:...

I Love and Hate My Job, Maybe

There is a tendency in youth work to either romanticize the task – “We’re saving kids, doing the Lord’s...

Whacked By A Boys Club

When is a congressional earmark not an earmark, but a line item in the federal budget? When it’s the $60 million appropriated...

Steady Walker

When Jim Walker was hired at the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa during the first year of a small federally funded project known as...

Less Cost, More Safety: Guiding Lights for Reform in Juvenile Justice

Identifying challenges faced by youth workers in juvenile justice programs, the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) recognized programs that achieve “notable successes...