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After School Programs: Managing Risks and Limiting Liabilities

With a life-threatening peanut allergy, Mason Machiewicz’s mom, Alissa, keeps a strict peanut-free home. Having just completed her search for a private...

Risk Management Planning: A Basic Checklist for Youth Protection

When taking a critical look at risk categories, the Nonprofit Risk Management Center provides the following advice: Personnel and participants are a...

Insurance Shopping: Questions and Consideration

While a thoughtful policy and procedure manual will help manage an after-school program’s risk, the program should also consider what kinds of...

Opening School Facilities to Private Youth Programs — A Legal Analysis

In his overview analysis, Professor Tom Baker wrote that “public schools in most states are subject to liability in some situations that...

Resources

Melanie Lockwood Herman, executive director of the Nonprofit Risk Management Center, suggests employee handbooks, another important piece to limiting liability, include the...

Workshops help young adults crack job market

Teen workers at Ironworks Cafe, part of a teen employment program at the Goodman Community Center in Madison, Wis. (credit: leedav / Flickr, CC)   SPRING...

Where Teens Seek Online Privacy Advice

Childhood Economic Strains in Predicting Substance Use in Emerging Adulthood

Fixing Education Takes More than Fixing Schools

Thirty years ago, the National Commission on Excellence in Education released the seminal report, “A Nation At Risk,” highlighting a dangerous and...

Child Abuse: Mandatory Reporting and Best Practices

Two brothers enrolled in an after-school program participate irregularly – daily one week and then not at all the next. The program...

Child Abuse Reporting Process: Q&A

Note: this information is not meant to provide legal advice. Because laws and procedures vary by state, anyone working with young people...

Best Practices

Best Practices Child abuse and neglect is a thorny problem, but there are programs that have been proven successful in reducing abuse...

New Pew Study Looks at Teens, Online Privacy and Where Kids Turn for Help

A report recently published by Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that seven out of 10 kids in the United States...

Adolescent Marijuana Use May Result in Permanent Cognitive Dysfunction, Researchers Say

A recent report published in the Nature journal Neuropsychopharmacology says that routine adolescent marijuana use may result in permanent brain dysfunction. Researchers...

Tackling Sports Safety Head On

Spencer Helgren, 16, (pictured above and below) a high school football player from Westwood High School in the Upper Peninsula, Mich., suffered...

N.Y. Film Festival Unites New Yorkers to be Better Fathers

NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. — They sat in a room, father and son, with cash stacked to the ceiling, seemingly all the...

Poor Children More Likely to Smoke, But Less Likely to Binge Drink, According to Duke Study

According to researchers at Duke University, children who grew up in poverty are more likely to become cigarette smokers as adults —...

Adding Camp to the School Reform Toolbox

When Miami Heat star LeBron James was asked what helped him win his second straight NBA championship, he emphasized, “The hard work...

Expanded Learning: The New Key to Increase Student Achievement

Experts say partnership, data-sharing and professional development poise providers to help students and schools increase achievement At PS/MS 188, a middle school on...

California Cities Seek $1 Billion Settlement for Lead Paint-Related Health Care Costs

This story was reported by Lilly Fowler for FairWarning, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit news organization focused on public health and safety issues. In...