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Report Roundup for March 2005
Child WelfareEstimating Financial Support for Kinship CaregiversThe Urban Institute This brief examines government payments to children in private kinship care (77 percent...
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Bush’s New Deal
Every year, the release of the president’s proposed budget sets off a ritual of sky-is-falling wails from youth advocates and people who...
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What Teenagers’ Faith Means for Youth Work
By Yonat Shimron Chapel Hill, N.C.—For the increasing number of faith-based programs that serve youth, an extensive study of teenagers’ religious beliefs...
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Plentiful Pork
At a time when the federal government increasingly demands that youth-serving programs prove their effectiveness through evaluations in order to get funded,...
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Tracking Alumni
By Ed Finkel Bloomington, Ill.—Construction contractor Jason Wallace heard an unexpected knock at his front door one day a couple of years...
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A Critic Joins the System
After 20 years of slugging it out with police, prosecutors and bureaucrats, juvenile justice reformer Vincent Schiraldi has joined their ranks. “If...
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Newsmakers for February 2005
NonprofitsJudge James Payne, who was the president-elect of the Reno, Nev.-based National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ), will pass...
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Report Roundup for February 2005
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Newsmakers for December 2004 – January 2005
Nonprofits Theresa Costello of the Charlotte, N.C.-based ACTION for Child Protection will be director of the National Resource Center on Child Protective...
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Times are Tough – Get Used to It
Chicago, Ill.—Former congressional staffer Ron Haskins stood before a gathering here last month of some of the most notable researchers and advocates...
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Agencies Innovate To Survive
Duluth, Minn.—Two huge metal storage sheds went up on a chunk of empty land just off a highway here a few months...
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The Fearful Flip Side of Child Protection
It was a youth worker’s nightmare. As staff member Johnny Dove of the New Life Children’s Residential Treatment Center in Canyon Lake,...
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Crucial Changes Loom for AmeriCorps
Federal rule-making is one of those inside-the-Beltway issues that rarely make headlines, but it often changes things significantly for anyone affected by...
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Death Penalty
During oral arguments before the Supreme Court last month over whether the execution of juveniles is unconstitutional, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy offered...
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Newsmakers for November 2004
Nonprofits Gordon Berlin took over as president of 30-year-old social policy research giant MDRC in late September, filling the shoes of Judith...
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Pay-As-You-Go Youth Work
San Francisco—On the last day of a month-long summer program in life skills, 14-year-old Shedrick Milton left the cozy office of the...
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U.S. Justice Department Cuffs Juvenile Corrections
Cheltenham, Md.—It’s a hot summer Friday afternoon at Maryland’s aging Cheltenham Youth Facility – one of an increasing number of juvenile corrections...
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Times are Tough – Get Used to It
Chicago, Ill.—Former congressional staffer Ron Haskins stood before a gathering here last month of some of the most notable researchers and advocates...
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What’s in a Name?
Peg Smith knows what you think when you hear “camping”: RVs. Tents. Outdoor latrines. When you’re the CEO of the American Camping...
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Newsmakers for October 2004
Nonprofits For years, the regional director of Latin American programs for Covenant House, Bruce Harris, has been regarded as a warrior on...
