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DC Rally Protests After-School Funding Cuts

Photo: Afterschool Alliance Several hundred youths and after-school advocates gathered at the U.S. Capitol last month to protest potential cuts in...

100th Anniversary: David & Margaret Youth and Family Services

Founded: In 1910, as an orphanage called David & Margaret Home for Children. By: Women’s Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal...

Juvenile Record Counts Under Three Strikes Law

The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand California’s practice of counting juvenile court convictions when applying the three strikes law to adult...

Rally for Jobs

Photo: Coalition to Save Youth Employment Members of the Coalition to Save Youth Employment demonstrated outside the U.S. Capitol last month –...

More Fed Money for Food at Summer Programs

TANF funds available through the Recovery Act can be used to help run summer food service programs by covering costs that are...

Walmart Gives Grants to Minority-Serving Colleges

Fifteen minority-serving institutions will get $100,000 grants from the Walmart Foundation to help further develop programs that support first-generation college students. The...

Youth Agencies to Work with Persistently Dangerous Schools

Three of the nation’s largest youth-serving agencies will partner with six “persistently dangerous” high schools to run violence reduction programs, using $34...

Certain Home Visitation Models Will Expand Under Health Reform

The health care reform law signed by President Barack Obama last month will significantly increase federal resources for programs that assist poor,...

New Fed Rules Restrict Tobacco Marketing to Youth

New restrictions meant to make cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products less appealing and less accessible to youths take effect June 22. Although...

SCHIP Dropped in AZ

Arizona became the first state to drop its state children’s health insurance program (SCHIP) when Gov. Jan Brewer (R) signed the 2011...

Health Law Gives Abstinence-only Proponents New Life

The health care reform law that President Barack Obama signed into law March 23 to help Americans get access to health insurance...

100th Anniversary of the American Camp Association

Founded: in 1910 under the name Camp Directors Association of America. By: Alan S. Williams. Originally director of the Reptile Study Society...

Child Welfare Nominee Grilled Over Sexuality Views

It looks like New Jersey will soon get a new director for its Department of Children and Families, but state lawmakers are...

Hi-tech System Speeds CPS, Police Communication

Los Angeles County officials recently unveiled a new Web-based system for sharing information about suspected child abuse among police, child protection services...

Gay Marriage Law Ends Catholic Foster Care in Washington

The Archdiocese of Washington recently ended its 80-year-old foster care and adoption services in that city because of a new same-sex marriage...

Dropout Prevention Group Calls it Quits

Larry Brown guided WAVE to new heights. Faced with increasing financial strains and the sudden loss of its longtime leader, the...

DOL Tips for Reaching Hard-to-Serve Youths

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration has released a new guidance for states, workforce investment boards and local...