Aggressive behavior of children in child care made front page headlines last month, but an equally important – and possibly related –...
Organizations that jam kids into 15-passenger vans (often called “church vans”) to get them to and from activities had better take it...
Rural preservationists take note: The National Family Preservation Network’s nine-year odyssey from the Hunter College School of Social Work to the Maryland...
Cincinnati, a hotspot of urban unrest last month, faces “a mess of a summer,” forecasts a local youth worker who laments that...
Position wanted: Working with kids. Education: High school dropout. Honors: Top drug salesman for street gang. Convicted of drug trafficking and weapons...
John Artis, youth counselor, Norfolk Juvenile Detention Center, Virginia – Convicted with boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter in the 1966 slaying of three...
ANAHEIM, Calif. An unusual twist in youth development work began modestly in 1977 when Neal Henderson decided to use his driveway outside...
BY AMY BRACKEN New York City, youth worker Barry Joseph of Global Kids uses a New Voices fellowship to design a...
When the Minneapolis-based Search Institute gathered for its annual Healthy Communities * Healthy Youth Conference in early November, it had plenty to...
The Arsalyn Foundation (assets $9.6 million) in Glendora, Calif., founded in 1996 to “address the increased cynicism and the resultant decline in...
“Let me tell you something, honey. You’re a big queen yourself and you need to come out of the closet.” A fine...
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...
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...
BY DEAN TORRES What does it take to put food on the table, put clothes on your back, and keep a roof...
Few question that much of the youth service field is pathetically underfinanced. So it is no surprise that those who follow the...
Job Corps graduates earn higher wages and are less likely to have run-ins with the criminal justice system than eligible nonparticipants, according...
Many years ago I attended a dinner party at which the conversation turned to the question, “Has a book ever changed your...
Richmond, Va.—When youth baseball coaches cite the names of the men who taught them the game, they touch on the special continuity...
While “guidance counselor” in the United States has routinely come to mean a desk-bound administrator who dispenses college applications, England has just...
By Amy Bracken Are for-profit companies fit to serve youth? A group of the nation’s top nonprofits issued a warning last month...