News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

More Money for Child Abuse Services, Background Checks

By Amy Bracken President Bill Clinton, whose proposed budget for next year keeps funding for child abuse programs flat and cuts at...

Six Youths Killed During Community Service in Nevada

The driver of a minivan plowed off a busy interstate into a group of seven youths, killing five instantly as they participated...

Getting Personal: England Gives Kids Advisers

While “guidance counselor” in the United States has routinely come to mean a desk-bound administrator who dispenses college applications, England has just...

Nonprofits Warn About For-Profits

By Amy Bracken Are for-profit companies fit to serve youth? A group of the nation’s top nonprofits issued a warning last month...

$222 Million in Grants Target Poor Youth

Some 44,000 young people have been targeted by $222 million in Youth Opportunity grants aimed at getting them back to school, enrolling...

At Child Welfare Agencies, the Feds Are Coming

By Amy Bracken Federal officials will start visiting state child welfare agencies to see how they’re serving kids, under a more stringent...

Colorado Cops Keep Tabs On All Youth They Contact

Police in the county where the infamous Columbine High School shootings took place are now keeping a database on juveniles after every...

A Different Kind of Smart: A Study of Educational Obstacles Confronting Homeless Youth in New England

This study seeks to draw national implications from an eight-month study of educational obstacles facing homeless youth in four New England states:...

Abstinence Dominates School Sex Ed

Fewer than half of the country’s sex education classes offer information on where to get birth control (45 percent) or how to...

Conflicting Views On Dropout Rate

Two recently released reports offer conflicting views on U.S. education. The first, “Do You Know… The Good News About American Education?,” sponsored...

Executioners Kick Off 2000 with Juvenile Offenders

More juvenile offenders were executed in Virginia and Texas last month than have ever been executed in a single month in the...

Teen Drug Abuse Decline Pauses

With some exceptions, overall drug abuse among American adolescents held steady during 1999, according to “Monitoring the Future,” the ongoing study by...

Turnover Up as Salaries Stay Low

As if opening the paycheck isn’t depressing enough, a new report from the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) illustrates how poorly...

Gun-loaded Juvenile Crime Bill a No-Show

The House and Senate juvenile justice legislation, passed with so much fanfare in late summer, didn’t make final cut during the first...

International Treaty Targets ‘Worst’ Child Labor

In a move heralded by child advocates, the U.S. Senate has given President Clinton unanimous consent to ratify a new treaty seeking...

Maryland Pre-trial Youth Abused, Report Says

The author of a hard-hitting study concluding that juveniles in Maryland charged with adult crimes are subjected to “appalling” physical conditions, extreme...

Taxing Hits Greet Web Access to 990s

Keying in “www.guidestar.org” lately has, at times, produced a screen with three little words: “Service not available.” Cyberspace now offers a synopsis...

What Gives at the White House

Clinton Wants To Continue AmeriCorps

By Jennifer Durrence President Clinton’s proposal to reauthorize AmeriCorps and other Corporation for National Service programs – Learn and Serve and the...

States Crack Down On Teen Smokers

Several states have cracked down on teen tobacco use by shifting the consequences of smoking to youth directly – imposing fines and...