Back in 1998 a wonderful youth program in Brooklyn, El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice, came under the spotlight of critical...
Nonprofits After almost 30 years in operation, the Center for Community Change (CCC) has decided to plunge into the media game. The...
High staff turnover and yawning job vacancy rates may have contributed to the vicious attack on a New York youth worker Feb....
Proponents of the Younger Americans Act are learning that even a popular bill with the right sponsors can remain inert in Congress,...
President George Bush’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2003 would gouge some youth programs to the point of extinction while boosting others...
By Linda Lutton Ames, Iowa—When George Belitsos first rolled into town in his Volkswagen in 1971, this college town had a growing...
By Natalie Gardner Lake Village, Ark.—Federal dollars for a limousine ride and a manicure? Toyce Newton knows that what she did here...
The Netherlands—When youth workers here teach the Quest life skills curriculum that they’ve adapted from the United States, they do not preach...
With a rare victory over Washington’s education lobby, youth-serving agencies can for the first time directly tap into the federal government’s biggest...
Ever since the 1999 Columbine massacre, adults have preached that the best way to prevent school violence is to get youths to...
When Joe Clark came on as director of the Essex County Juvenile Detention Center in 1995, he committed to staying until he...
A study of people who were born prematurely sheds more light on the ever-amazing resiliency of kids to overcome trauma. The study...
To celebrate its 100th anniversary, 4-H has been holding a series of discussions nationwide about the future of youth work. 4-H has...
Foundations The New York-based Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s policy shift to focus on strengthening urban youth service agencies in the Northeast has...
by Richard Rothstein The art of Jacob Lawrence, the magnificent African-Amer-ican painter who wove color, shape, history and sociology into emotionally powerful...
No one pries money from the federal government for youth programs like Wintley Phipps. He sings. He sings to presidents. He...
Will the United States ever reach a consensus on how to teach its youth about sex? It’s hard to see hope through...
By Frank KlimkoSumter, S.C. henever youth worker Barbara Brown drives her beige Toyota Corolla past the boarded-up brick building behind the...
By Celeste Fremon Los Angeles The Los Angeles Free Clinic opened in 1967 during the Summer of Love, when kids from around the...
While the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) squeezes into a House-Senate conference committee with wildly disparate authorization levels,...