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Do youth groups need volunteer blacklists?

If someone gets kicked out of a youth program for inappropriate behavior with the kids – giving them cigarettes, showing up...

U.K.’s New List of Approved and Banned Youth Workers

The United Kingdom is instituting a system to register virtually all of the its youth workers in one place and to...

Heroin Gang Infiltrates Balimore Community Center

Gang members working as counselors allegedly used an anti-violence program at a Baltimore community center to extend their heroin distribution business to...

Heroin Gang Infiltrates Baltmore Community Center

Gang members working as counselors allegedly used an anti-violence program at a Baltimore community center to extend their heroin distribution business to...

Jesse Heffernan

Jesse Heffernan Program Coordinator Harmony Café – Fox Valley, operated by Goodwill Industries North Central WisconsinAppleton, Wis.(920)-734-2233 http://www.harmonycafe.org Age: 29 Salary:...

Study Examines Teaching Occupational Skills Along with English

This new evaluation from the Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration deals with lessons learned from the Limited English Proficiency and...

Is it OK to Party on the Federal Dime?

Ho, ho, ho? Hell no. That sums up the reaction that the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) had...

Study Examines Teaching Occupational Skills Along with English

This new evaluation from the Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration deals with lessons learned from the Limited English Proficiency and...

Labor Dept. Reveals Youth Activities Funds

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration has released its final allotments for Youth Activities for program year 2010. The...

Youth Summer Jobs Program: Did it Work?

At a time when many youth-serving agencies await word on whether there will be any federal money set aside for another youth...

Feds Name New National Job Corps Director

Edna Primrose, a longtime youth worker and Job Corps administrator, has been named national director of Job Corps, according to a memo...

Audit Says ResCare Billed Improperly for Job Corps

ResCare, Inc. – the second-largest Job Corps site operator in the nation – improperly billed the Job Corps program for nearly $117,000,...

Youth Opportunities Still Knock

Baltimore—When Ernest Dorsey spoke last month to 20 youths during their orientation at the Westside Youth Opportunity Community Center in a forlorn...

Time to Pay for Hazardous Youth Work

William Harvey Jr., a youth outreach worker for the city of Boston, was recently honored by the city and his union....

What One YO Achieved, and How It (Sort of) Continues

Not long after Phoenix Youth and Family Services in the Arkansas Delta started providing services to young people under the Youth...

50 Best College Majors for a Secure Future

Laurence Shatkin and the Editors at JistJIST Works/JIST Publishing330 pages. $15.95 paperback. What could have more allure than the promise of...

Save the Children Staffer Dies in Haitian Earthquake

One member of Save the Children’s staff in Haiti was killed and another seriously injured in the 7.0 magnitude earthquake centered near...

Labor Department Urges Agencies to Tap TANF Funds to Subsidize Summer Jobs for Youths

Saying nearly all of the Recovery Act money for summer youth employment programs has been spent, the U.S. Employment and Training Administration...

Labor Department Releases More Green Jobs Training Grants

More than three dozen organizations – including several community colleges and youth-serving agencies – will split $150 million in “green jobs” grants...

Connecting the Data Dots to Better Serve Disconnected Youths

Cross-system collaboration, caring adults and meaningful data analysis will help programs for disconnected youth succeed, grow and get funded, program and policy...