Youth Today
News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
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Summer Jobs Programs Hard to Assess
The summer youth employment opportunities funded by the Recovery Act could not find jobs for every participant, but the Department of...
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Job Corps Turns 45
With the U.S. Capitol as its stage, Job Corps celebrated its 45th birthday last month with robotics demonstrations and testimonies from...
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Conviction Shows Background Check Risk
How thorough are your background checks for prospective employees? The conviction of a paid mentor in Washington, D.C., highlights the risks...
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Youth Villages Absorbs Inner Harbour
The decline in government referrals to residential programs continues to force decades-old youth agencies to close their doors or ask bigger...
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Foundation Council Lays Off Staff
The recession has forced many nonprofits and foundations to lay off staffers and wonder how they’ll fulfill their missions with fewer...
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Database Includes Assessment Tools
A new database of assessment tools allows practitioners, evaluators and policymakers to gauge the quality of science-related out-of-school programs. The Assessment...
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Accreditation Survey Reveals Good and Bad
The New York-based Council on Accreditation (COA), which works to accredit human service organizations, including private social service groups, sent e-mail...
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CWLA Partners with Adoption Institute
Citing tough economic times, two major child welfare organizations have formed a “strategic partnership” to take advantage of each other’s strengths...
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Gang Centers Merge
The National Youth Gang Center and the National Gang Center will merge to “leverage resources more effectively,” the U.S. Department of...
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Vernon Forrest, Boxer and Champion for Kids, Killed
Vernon Forrest, a former world welterweight and junior middleweight boxing champion who was shot to death during a robbery in Atlanta...
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Obama Adds Office to Boost Youth Sports
Think today’s kids are over-involved in sports leagues? Not so much in cities, which is why President Barack Obama recently announced...
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Playground Named for Slain Youth Worker
The Philadelphia playground where a much-loved youth volunteer was shot and killed last year now bears his name. City officials christened...
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Labor Official: Evaluations Will Set Future of Summer Jobs
The new head of the federal agency in charge of the summer youth employment program vows to follow what the data...
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Grants Focus on Getting Students Through Remedial Courses
Fifteen community colleges and the five states where they are located will share $16.5 million in grants intended to support and...
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YouthBuild Programs Get $114 Million
By Megan A. Conlan Some 183 organizations that carry out the federally funded YouthBuild program will receive a total of $114 million...
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New Tobacco Law Aims at Youth Smoking
By Megan A. Conlan The new federal law that will allow the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate the tobacco industry also...
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Obama Pushes Responsible Fathering
Walking into a group discussion at the White House about fatherhood last month, it took President Barack Obama only a few...
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A Murder, a Melee, Lots of Questions
Two New York State residential facilities and the nonprofit company that operates them are under investigation by the state after the...
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Darkness Falls on a City’s Curfew
If history is our guide, the recent elimination of Rochester’s curfew law by New York’s highest court will not be celebrated...
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Budget Cuts Close Eckerd Programs
By Megan A. Conlan State budget cuts have forced a well-known provider of youth services in nine states to close facilities...
