Youth Today
News
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Kinship Care Kid Grows Into a Pioneer
Pittsburgh, Pa.—A dozen years ago, as Sharon Toliver McDaniel began work for a nonprofit agency here that arranged adoptions of foster...
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Juvenile Justice
Leicester, England—What happens when a country reduces the penalties for smoking marijuana to the point where most users won’t get arrested for...
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Shielding Kids From Web Porn and Violence
In blocking enforcement of the Child Online Protection Act this summer because it is probably unconstitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court said anyone...
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Newsmakers for September 2004
Nonprofits Communities in Schools – the 27-year-old nonprofit network of more than 200 community groups that provide resources and volunteers for schools...
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Mentoring Pays Off
Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.—Like many youth-serving agencies, Children’s Village struggles to recruit and keep qualified mentors to guide its troubled kids. But mentor...
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Class Action?
In 1980, attorney Marcia Lowry led the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) tocourt against New Mexico for failing to properly serve children...
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Juvenile Justice
Not long ago, misbehaving youth in New Jersey’s juvenile corrections facilities could be sent off to isolation for up to 30 days....
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Staff Management
People who volunteer to work at youth agencies think they’re giving their labor for free, but agency managers know better. Several recent...
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Newsmakers for July 2004
Feds While embattled members of President George W. Bush’s inner military circle continue to survive under public scrutiny, his lesser-known combatants in...
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Unjust Medicine
By all accounts, 17-year-old Omar Paisley died an excruciating death. For three days, Omar lay on a concrete bunk, weeping and moaning...
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An Evaluation of Volunteers Courts Controversy
The Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) program couldn’t sound more apple pie, more thousand points of light. CASAs are a cadre of...
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Program Evaluations
Philadelphia—Like everyone who runs a youth-serving agency, Simran Sidhu believes her YouthBuild program here improves lives. But like most program managers and...
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Fund Raising
About $2 billion was donated to charities through the Internet last year, according to estimates by the likes of the ePhilanthropy Foundation....
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Newsmakers for June 2004
Nonprofits The National Crime Prevention Council, after being under the leadership of the recently retired Jack Calhoun for more than 20 years,...
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Fixing Foster Care
Detroit, Mich.—A national commission’s new recommendations for overhauling the nation’s foster care system hit on some of the most significant problems and...
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Youth Work’s Greatest Tails
Staffers at the Chaddock residential program for troubled youth in Quincy, Ill., were walking around campus one day last year when they...
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Profiles in Youth Work
One of the rising young stars in youth work began her career as a disillusioned high schooler, ditching classes and handing out...
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Newsmakers for May 2004
Nonprofits Bobby Heard became interim executive director of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) in mid-April. Heard, director of marketing and development for...
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Report Roundup for May 2004
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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A Dangerous Drive
As accidents go, the results could not have been worse for the Tippy Toes Learning Academy: four children and their van driver...
