Youth Today

Homeland Insecurity

Every Child Matters Education Fund This new report shows that the United States lags behind many of the world's comparably wealthy democracies...

Zero Tolerance Breeds Zero Justice

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — A poem on the wall of PA Child Care, a privately owned juvenile detention facility on the outskirts of...

Stimulus Funds Fuel Summer Jobs

It’s not easy to spend $1.2 billion quickly and well – as people who provide summer jobs for youth are about to...

National Service Set to Grow

YouthBuild Showcases a House and Its Revival

Building support: The first lady’s visit gets a reaction from Stoneman. Photo: CNCS Five young men listened intently as they gathered around...

Earmarks 2009

Earmark Samples(Click image to open full .pdf chart) Here is a sample of youth-related earmarks from fiscal 2009 appropriations legislation. The numbers next...

Newsmakers for April 2009

Nonprofits Former attorney general Alberto Gonzales may be having a hard time finding a job (according to The New York Times), but...

Youth Video Draws Obama to ‘Early College’ School

Visual appeal: Youths at the Village Academy speak in this YouTube video about how the economic crisis is hurting their families. In...

Resources: Curriculum Review

Real Stories, Real Teens Keith Hefner, with Development Without LimitsYouth CommunicationLeader’s Guide: $34.95, 286 pages.Anthology: $16.95, 188 pages.Full Program: $695, 20 anthologies,...

The Federal Youth Budget: 2009

Click image for .pdf chart This chart outlines recently enacted fiscal 2009 spending levels for youth programs – everything from child nutrition...

Helping Former Foster Youth Graduate from College: Campus Support Programs in California and Washington State

Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago This report explores campus-based support programs that seek to remove barriers that former foster youths...

America’s Youngest Outcasts: State Report Card on Child Homelessness

National Center on Family Homelessness In the midst of an economic crisis that is forcing adults to deal with job layoffs and...

Youth Media Reporter 2008

Academy for Educational Development The entire year of this journal's editions covering the youth media field is now available in one volume,...

Grandparenting and Adolescent Adjustment in Two-Parent Biological, Lone-Parent, and Step-Families

Multiple international researchers Adolescents who spend time with their grandparents have better social skills and exhibit fewer behavior problems, according to this...

Change it Up: What Girls Say About Redefining Leadership

Girl Scout Research Institute The findings of this national study provide a nuanced view of girls' attitudes, aspirations and experiences regarding leadership....

National Service Set to Grow

Less than three months after he took office, and seven months after a large New York send-off, much of President Barack Obama’s...

Nonprofit Survey

Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) Many of America's nonprofits - including "safety-net" organizations that offer basic and social services to at-risk populations -...