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Afterschool Workforce Development Strategies: From Recruitment to Career Pathways

Children Now After-school workforce development projects that focus their outreach efforts on specific demographics, like high school and college students,...

America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2009

Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics An annual federal inter-agency report shows a few small changes in the well-being of...

Trends in Child Health 1997-2006: Assessing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Diagnoses of ADHD/ADD and of Learning Disability

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Though it makes no effort to establish possible causes and some of its findings are...

Covering Kids & Families Evaluation: Synthesis of 10 Case Studies: Exploring Medicaid and SCHIP Enrollment Trends and Their Links to Policy and Practice

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Simplified or joint forms, the elimination of face-to-face interviews, a centralized system for eligibility processing and presumptive...

Workforce Investment Act Needs Updating, Agency Says

Jobs for the Future (JFF) There’s no shortage of ideas on how to retool the Workforce Investment Act in order to make...

Young Voters Push Participation in 2008 to 49 percent

Young voters – specifically blacks and Hispanics – were the only demographic group to show a significantly higher voting percentage in...

House Appropriations Committee Passes CNCS Budget

The House Appropriations Committee on Friday fought back an effort to withhold all money for AmeriCorps programs pending an investigation into the...

Obama’s Community College Proposal – Where Does Youth Work Fit?

President Barack Obama’s $12 billion proposal to boost community colleges would bring new opportunities – and demands – to the youth field....

NASFAA Head Faces Felony Charges

The president of the Washington, D.C.-based National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators was charged this week in San Francisco with...

College Dreams Deferred

Despite increased efforts to make college more affordable and accessible, a new survey shows that a growing number of low-income high...

New York-based Family Justice to Close in Fall

Family Justice, a New York-based agency that was a pioneer in the method of helping the entire family of a child...

College Dreams Deferred

Despite increased efforts to make college more affordable and accessible, a new survey shows that a growing number of low-income high school...

Convicted NFL Star Michael Vick Helps at Virginia B&G Club

For former NFL Pro Bowl quarterback and convicted dogfighting bankroller Michael Vick, the path to youth work employment is proving easier than...

Senators Seek Hearing on Firing of CNCS Inspector General

Two influential Republican senators have asked for a hearing on the firing of Gerald Walpin as inspector general for the Corporation for...

Obama Spotlights Community Nonprofits

President Barack Obama made it clear today that he is counting on nonprofit organizations to advance education, training and health care in...

Five Teams Receive Grants to Expand Learning Opportunities

Leadership teams from five states received a total of $250,000 in grants to support after-school and summer learning opportunities for students through...

New Documents Explain CNCS Firing

The acting head of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) has told Congress that the agency’s inspector general was excluded...

Supreme Court Rules School Strip Search Illegal

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1 today that the strip search of a 13-year-old Arizona girl suspected of having prescription-strength pain relievers...