Youth Today
News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
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Not-So-High Times For Teen Drug Use?
“We are greatly encouraged by the results of the MTF Survey,” said U.S. Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey in a statement on the...
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Not-So-High Times For Teen Drug Use?
“We are greatly encouraged by the results of the MTF Survey,” said U.S. Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey in a statement on the...
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School-to-Work Sunsets, State Programs Rise
Although October will bring an end to the seed money provided by the federal School-to-Work (S-t-W) Opportunities Act of 1994, as of...
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Haze Over Youth Anti-Tobacco Lessons
A study casting doubt on the effectiveness of anti-tobacco programs for youth has done something few would have thought possible: put anti-tobacco...
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Very Briefly …
Bully Foes Pushed Around: Mary Harvey, founder of Prescott, Ariz.-based Safe Schools, Safe Students, is an eternal optimist. Since mid-fall her agency...
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School Breakfast Program Misses Two Million Youth
While about half of the estimated 12 million children from eligible households received free or reduced-price school breakfasts in the 1999-2000 school...
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Britain Implements National Youth Policy
London—In an effort to pursue a single, comprehensive national youth policy, British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Labor government has launched a Children...
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Guns in Schools Spur Dueling Reports
It sounds like a presidential election: Several groups are counting guns in schools, but no one can agree on the real numbers....
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Restraint Law Reigned In
After two years of wrangling over language involving the use of restraints and seclusion in facilities for children and youth, the Children’s...
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Teen Sex Ad Campaign Pregnant With Criticism
Catcalls, raspberries, howls of protest and various random drubbings have greeted a provocative new teen sex advertising campaign designed to do what...
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Strategy Worked for Seniors, Can It Work For Kids?
Before the Older Americans Act in 1965, there was no Medicare, no meals-on-wheels, no multi-purpose senior centers – all now part of...
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White House Gathering Plugs Positive Youth Development
The Clinton administration held the first-ever White House Conference on Teenagers last month and put the accent on the positive – forging...
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No CHIPs Off the Uninsured Kids Block
Several new reports on changes in public and private health insurance have put a frown on the faces of those striving to...
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Joe Camel is Dead, His Spirit Lives
Joe Camel was put to rest 18 months ago, but Big Tobacco’s practice of targeting youth may be alive and well. Since...
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Columbine Reports Cite Media, Congress Culpability
On the first anniversary of the April 20, 1999 school shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., a flurry of reports,...
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Top Weapon in Teen Smoking Is Teens
By Amy Bracken Less than a year after a bitter struggle with GOP lawmakers who threatened its very existence, Florida’s partly youth-driven...
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Fatherhood Sites Get Help from U.S.
Ten states have been selected to participate in a waiver demonstration program designed to improve the opportunities of young, unmarried fathers to...
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Anti-Alcohol Campaign Targets Younger Youth
In response to evidence that Americans are beginning to drink at younger ages, anti-alcohol forces are shifting their prevention efforts to younger...
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With Washington Stalled On Guns, Youth Take Action
“March Madness” took on a new meaning with last month’s hard-edged gun law rhetoric from President Clinton and the National Rifle Association,...
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Supreme Court Strips FDA Youth Tobacco Regs
In a 5-4 ruling last month the Supreme Court dismantled the Clinton administration’s tough teenage anti-smoking campaign by stripping away the U.S....
