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Serving for Life

In the parlance of the field, they are called “lifers.” They are people who as children joined youth organizations and basically never...

Climbing the Ladder from Day Care to VP

Michael Waldman Michael Waldman comes from a long line of social workers: his grandparents, aunts, uncle, parents and sister. So it’s probably...

Putting Her Faith in Youth Work

Sheavaun Malone When Sheavaun Malone was 11, her best friend invited her to summer vacation Bible school at the Salvation Army in...

Traveling the World to Come Home

  Paco Fuentes Paco Fuentes has traveled the country and halfway around the world, only to wind up back in his old...

She Went for Free, and Now Works for Little

  Carla Shelton Carla Shelton’s mother was a single mom who worked several jobs to make ends meet and pay Catholic school...

Military Life Leads to Youth Work Career

De’Janaria Austin De’Janaria Austin moved from one military youth program to another as his Air Force father moved the family from Myrtle...

How Chicago Sends More Kids to College

Tutoring is key. Photo: AVID Before President Barack Obama plucked him from Chicago to serve as the nation’s new education secretary, Arne...

New Coalition Pushes Children’s Agenda

Bentley: “The more voices we have singing in unison, the better it is for children.” Some of the nation’s most prominent children’s...

An Urge to Care Lit Her Fire

  Pasewalk: “Her ability to make work light and fun was always appreciated,” an ex-colleague says. It was 1973, and Jill Pasewalk...

Newsmakers for March 2009

  Nonprofits Tracy Velázquez Tracy Velázquez is the new executive director of the Washington-based Justice Policy Institute (JPI). Formerly the senior program...

Project Offers Help for Getting Financial Aid

Oreopoulos: Report urges partnership between federal departments to ease aid applications. Testifying at his January confirmation hearing to become U.S. education secretary,...

The Stimulus and Youth

Below is a look at how the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will affect funding for youth services in federal...

Youth Services in States of Pain

With the national economic crisis deepening, youth programs and youth service advocates are scrambling to save funding as they cut their current...

The Teens with Michelle Obama at President’s Speech

Three Washington, D.C., high school students who asked first lady Michelle Obama questions during her recent visit to their after-school program were...

ACLU: Schools Ignore Landmark Supreme Court Ruling, Still Censor Students’ Speech

A sceen shot from the ACLU video. Credit: ACLU. Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District, decided 40 years ago this month,...

Most Stimulus Jobs Require College Experience

A little more than half of the 3.7 million jobs expected to be created by the new economic stimulus package will require...

Online Sports Registration Vendor Strikes Out

  Youth sports and after-school groups from Alaska to New Jersey that hired a Washington company to register program participants online are...

1.5 Million Homeschooled Students in the United States in 2007

Trends in the Diagnosis of Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents: 1999-2007

Academy of Pediatrics Childhood obesity has emerged in recent years as a serious problem in America, receiving widespread media coverage. According to...

Learning Science in Informal Environments: People, Places and Pursuits