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Staying Together, for Runaways’ Sake

Manitowoc, Wis.—The people who run Project Youth here realize that missing a grant application deadline is a fundamental mistake. When they did...

Sex and Pregnancy

If a “morning-after” birth control pill becomes available without a prescription, should teenagers be able to buy it? That question has stalled...

Foundation Grants

To anyone at a nonprofit youth agency trying to live in part on foundation grants, a statement endorsed by Independent Sector last...

Newsmakers for April 2004

Nonprofits In what spokeswoman Joyce Johnson called a “painful moment in our history,” the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) laid off...

Virginity Pledges: Broken, but Effective?

A new study of virginity pledges provides evidence about both their effectiveness and their shortcomings. Most teens who vowed sexual abstinence until...

Report Roundup for April 2004

A compilation of the reports from this issue.

Snack Attacks

The vending machines at the Clark County YMCA in Vancouver, Wash., make some people uneasy. On the one hand, the machines bring...

Getting Down on Self-Esteem

When the Teen Outreach Program (TOP) in Oklahoma City held a career day a couple of years ago, one 17-year-old girl stood...

Newsmakers for March 2004

Nonprofits After going more than a year without a permanent boss, the Washington-based National Network for Youth (NNY) has named Vicky Wagner...

Report Roundup for March 2004

A compilation of the reports from this issue.

At Treatment Centers, It’s Time to Adapt or Perish

Des Plaines, Ill.—For 120 years, some of the most pained children in Illinois have come to the Maryville Academy for help and...

Attracting Teens

*Editor’s Note: The last name of the person identified in this story as "Albert K." was printed in full in the...

Federal Funding

President Bush rolled out a $2.4 trillion budget request last month that drew a response from the youth field that was seemingly...

Staff Training in Tight Times

Bellingham, Wash.—When a recession hits, budget cuts commonly decimate training and staff development at youth service agencies. But Northwest Youth Services here...

Federal Youth Programs and Policy Taken to Task

The Final Report of the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth, long awaited by youth policy mavens, was recently released with...

Newsmakers for February 2004

Feds After a year that found its flagship AmeriCorps program in turmoil, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) begins 2004...

Report Roundup for February 2004

A compilation of the reports from this issue.

Restraints Put on Hold

Greeneville, Tenn.—Staffers at the Holston United Methodist Home for Children painfully recall days in the mid-1990s when they dreaded coming to work....

A Giant in Adolescent Research

Minneapolis, Minn.—Gisela Konopka, who fled Nazi Germany after being jailed by the Gestapo, and then influenced generations of American youth workers as...