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Madoff Scandal Claims Youth Work Victims

  Youth work lost two major benefactors to the alleged Ponzi scheme created by financial manager Bernard Madoff. The New York-based JEHT...

The Bush Youth Legacy

On these pages is a sampling of changes in youth well-being and youth-related federal spending during the Bush administration. Both supporters and...

Online Sports Registration Vendor Striking Out

Brooke Briggance discovered in October that Count Me In Corp., a Washington state online vendor that handled sports and activity registrations for...

Patient Teenagers? A Comparison of the Sexual Behavior of Virginity Pledgers and Matched Non-Pledgers

Matched Comparison of Children in Kinship Care and Foster Care on Child Welfare Outcomes

Colorado State University This study compared permanency, safety and stability outcomes for 318 "matched" pairs of children placed in either kinship care...

Chairs Named for House Education and Labor Subcommittees

Democrats have been named as chairs of the five subcommittees of the House Education and Labor Committee. The committee deals with a...

Kevin Ryan Named First Lay President of Covenant House

Kevin Ryan has been named the first lay president of Covenant House (CH), the largest homeless youth services organization in North and...

Join Together and CASA Announce Merger

Join Together, a major distributor of news on substance abuse and tobacco use by youth, announced yesterday that it would merge with...

The Economic Stimulus Bill: What’s in It for Youth

The $825 billion economic stimulus package unveiled by Congress this week would give a major boost to youth employment initiatives. But for...

Slowikowski to Be Acting Administrator at OJJDP

Jeff Slowikowski, the associate administrator of the demonstration programs division, will become the acting administrator for the Office of Juvenile Justice and...

The Future is Green for Community Colleges

If you’re searching for a place to get training for a job in America’s burgeoning “green economy,” then consider a community college...

Tobacco-Free Kids Head William Corr to HHS

[Note: This story has been corrected from an earlier version] William Corr, executive director of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids since 2000,...

Drum Line from Residential Facility to March in Inaugural Parade

To view a video of the drum corps in action go to www.bonnie-brae.org/news_knightsvid.asp When the Inaugural Parade for Barack Obama winds its...

Unclaimed Children Revisited: The Status of Children’s Mental Health Policy in the United States

National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) This report examines whether the "explosion of knowledge" that occurred over the past quarter century...

State of America’s Children 2008

Children's Defense Fund (CDF) This annual, comprehensive statistical review of key child data shows "epidemic numbers of children at risk" according to...

Inaugural Celebrations of Interest to Youth Workers

Inaugural revelers who do not find their way to the parade route or get into the official balls will not lack for...

Using Family Group Conferencing to Assist Immigrant Children and Families in the Child Welfare System

American Humane Association This paper considers key factors in using Family Group Conferenceing with citizen children whose families traverse American borders and/or...

Dear Obama Claus

Illustrations by Dean MacAdam After Barack Obama won last month’s presidential election, gatherings of youth workers and advocates took on the air...

Dual Enrollment Reaches Down

Vargas: Dual enrollment initiatives are spreading to more states. “We want students who aren’t on their way to college,” said Daniel Voloch....

Taxing Your Way to Financial Security

When voters in Miami overwhelmingly renewed a tax on themselves last summer to fund youth services, they illuminated a rarely used path...