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Four AmeriCorps Members Get Spirit of Service Awards

  The federal government agency overseeing the efforts of millions of Americans in the service and volunteering field zeroed in on seven...

Obama Launches Summer Service Campaign

  “United We Serve,” a summer-long campaign to expand the size and scope of volunteering, kicked off today with a video statement...

FDA Advisory Committee OKs Marketing Use of Three Psych Meds for Youth

An expert panel for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the marketing of three psychotropic medications for use by...

Diplomas and Dropouts: Which Colleges Actually Graduate Their Students (and Which Don’t)

By 2015, less than one in four college students who start their higher education studies this fall will have earned a degree....

Cycle of Failure, Tapeworm in the System

These are the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform’s first two pieces on the state of Michigan’s child welfare system as the...

Obama Fires CNCS Watchdog

Rochester Curfew Struck Down by NY High Court

New York’s highest court, by a 5-2 vote, has struck down a curfew ordinance in the city of Rochester ruling that it...

Turning It Around

The alliance report heralds the progress made on the front of the system. Referrals to juvenile court are down 30 percent over...

Making Every Day Count: Boys & Girls Clubs’ Role in Promoting Positive Outcomes for Teens

Public/Private Ventures This latest report on P/PV's multi-year study of Boys & Girls Clubs finds that the more frequently youths participate in...

Audit Slams Largest AmeriCorps Program

  The nation’s largest and most expensive AmeriCorps program – the Teaching Fellows project at the City University of New York –...

First Lady Plants Two New Feet at CNCS

First Lady Michelle Obama’s chief of staff, Jackie Norris, is being sent to the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) in...

Evaluation of the YouthBuild Youth Offender Grants

The main findings on outcomes showed that a third of active participants at the 34 grantees got a GED while enrolled in...

FDA Committee to Rule on Psych Meds for Youths

The Food and Drug Administration’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee will vote next week on whether to allow three psychotropic medications to be...

Child Protection and Adult Crime: Using Investigator Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of Foster Care

Doyle compared the criminal outcomes of youth in foster care to those who were kept with their families, excluding from his sample...

Connected by 25 Reports

Both reports cover youth aging out of the foster care system. Financing Housing Supports for Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care outlines...

CNCS Announces New AmeriCorps Grants

The Corporation for National and Community Service’s announcement today of the winners of the 2009 grant competition brings the number of AmeriCorps...

Obama’s Swoosh Shot

How did the vice president of the world’s largest shoe company – whose primary job was to calm the uproar over Nike’s...

Growing a Workforce

Skills with teeth: Pam Fuller, 17, practices using a dental instrument in her dental assisting class at Central Educational Center. Photo: Jamaal...

Newsmakers for June 2009

  Laura Robinson Government The “Yes We Can” attitude at President Obama’s Justice Department must have resonated with Laurie Robinson. The Clinton-era...

Obama Budget Offers Growth and Cuts

The warm hope that President Barack Obama would reinvigorate youth programs with new federal funding has met the cold reality of the...