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The Right Guy

If President Bush was searching for a superbly qualified candidate to run OJJDP, he needed to look no further than his own...

National Groups

Quickly making his mark on the Corporation for National Service is former Indianapolis mayor Steven Goldsmith, now an unpaid special assistant to...

Radical Idea Serves Youth, Saves Money

Memphis, Tenn. In 1995, Patrick Lawler, CEO of one of Tennessee’s largest youth service contractors, approached state officials with a radical idea:...

Reading Between the Studies

“System building is slow. …The diversity of the field has all kinds of implications. …Only a modest percentage of low-income children participate....

Child Care Staff: Salaries, Stability, and Kids’ Behavior

Aggressive behavior of children in child care made front page headlines last month, but an equally important – and possibly related –...

Big Vans: Watch Out for Rollovers

Organizations that jam kids into 15-passenger vans (often called “church vans”) to get them to and from activities had better take it...

Preserved In Idaho

Rural preservationists take note: The National Family Preservation Network’s nine-year odyssey from the Hunter College School of Social Work to the Maryland...

Summer Jobs Outlook Cold for Poor

Cincinnati, a hotspot of urban unrest last month, faces “a mess of a summer,” forecasts a local youth worker who laments that...

Ex-Convicts Connect With Kids

Position wanted: Working with kids. Education: High school dropout. Honors: Top drug salesman for street gang. Convicted of drug trafficking and weapons...

From Serving Time to Serving Youth Ex-Cons Turned Youth Workers

John Artis, youth counselor, Norfolk Juvenile Detention Center, Virginia – Convicted with boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter in the 1966 slaying of three...

Youth Work On Ice

ANAHEIM, Calif. An unusual twist in youth development work began modestly in 1977 when Neal Henderson decided to use his driveway outside...

Burned Out? Take $100K and Call Us in the Morning

BY AMY BRACKEN New York City, youth worker Barry Joseph of Global Kids uses a New Voices fellowship to design a...

Rewarding Search

When the Minneapolis-based Search Institute gathered for its annual Healthy Communities * Healthy Youth Conference in early November, it had plenty to...

The Foundation World

The Arsalyn Foundation (assets $9.6 million) in Glendora, Calif., founded in 1996 to “address the increased cynicism and the resultant decline in...

GARY MALLON

“Let me tell you something, honey. You’re a big queen yourself and you need to come out of the closet.” A fine...

Some Philly Programs Cruise, Others Feel a Bumpy Ride

Mary Strasser calls it “the Cadillac of school-to-career programs.” Mary Jane Clancy, executive director of the School District of Philadelphia’s Office of...

‘Traumatic Transition’ as Workforce Act Displaces Summer Jobs for Youth Program

Scrambling to fill the void being left by the now defunct 16-year-old Job Training Partnership Act’s Summer Youth Employment Program, alarmed youth-serving...

Doing What It Takes to Survive

BY DEAN TORRES What does it take to put food on the table, put clothes on your back, and keep a roof...

Girl Talk

Few question that much of the youth service field is pathetically underfinanced. So it is no surprise that those who follow the...

National Job Corps Study: The Short-Term Impacts of Job Corps on Participants’ Employment and Related Outcomes

Job Corps graduates earn higher wages and are less likely to have run-ins with the criminal justice system than eligible nonparticipants, according...