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Newsmakers for July 2005
Nonprofits Nine months after the passing of Rich Scofield, founder and president of the Nashville-based School-Age Notes (SAN), a veteran youth work...
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Report Roundup of July – August 2005
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Outreach Worker’s Fire Sets Off Alarms
The city’s most famous homeless youth advocate and onetime accused killer sits in Denny’s, although sitting doesn’t really describe the behavior of...
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Report Roundup for June 2005
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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So Many Friends, So Fast
Portland, Ore. One of the first things Catherine Milton noticed when she became president of Friends of the Children (FOTC) three years...
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Evolution of the Giraffe
John Graham admits that when he first heard about the Giraffe Project, which inspires kids with stories about heroes who stick their...
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Newsmakers for June 2005
Nonprofits Perhaps no program in youth work draws adulation and criticism in equal measure as much as the Children’s Aid Society’s Adolescent...
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Blueprint for Political Action?
So-called “527” organizations drew national attention last year for helping to torpedo the presidential candidacy of Democrat John Kerry with allegations about...
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The TASC of After-School Training
The Bronx, N.Y.—Belinda Passafaro arrives at Public School 79 dressed like she’s here to run a business seminar: heels, crisp slacks and...
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Child Welfare’s Harsh Test
When the federal government introduced a bold system five years ago to evaluate state child welfare systems, it drew cheers from case...
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Report Roundup for May 2005
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Newsmakers for May 2005
Nonprofits The debate at Omaha, Neb.-based Girls and Boys Town over hiring a new executive director two years ago was so heated...
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Newsmakers for April 2005
Nonprofits Last month, Marc Schindler left the D.C.- and San Francisco-based Youth Law Center (YLC), a nonprofit that has lobbied and litigated...
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Report Roundup for April 2005
Child Welfare Substance Use and Need for Treatment among Youths Who Have Been in Foster Care U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health...
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Holy Youth Work
Baltimore, Md.—In 1954, a U.S. Senate subcommittee summoned child psychologists and comic book publishers to hearings on a matter of grave national...
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Behind the Death Penalty Ban
For the past several years, Dr. David Fassler has enjoyed putting his plastic brain through x-ray machines at airports. At an airport...
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An Agency’s Near-Fatal Drift Ends with an Unlikely Rescue
In 1999, the Columbine High School shooting claimed the lives of 14 youths and changed the lives of millions of Americans. It...
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Organizations sign memo to White House urging youth priorities
In a new effort to coordinate the youth work field around major national priorities, more than 200 youth-serving organizations signed a memo...
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Youth Advocates Vie for Attention in Washington
Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle introduced bipartisan legislation last month that would, for the first time, attempt to...
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Newsmakers for March 2005
Nonprofits The Los Angeles-based Amer-I-Can Foundation has long been a darling of Congress, receiving $1.7 million over the past four years in...
