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Report Roundup for February 2004
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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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....
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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...
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Technology
In Hillsborough County, Fla., child welfare workers no longer have to call schools to find out whether youths under their supervision have...
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Report Roundup for December 2003 – January 2004
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Insurance Costs Hit a Soar Point
Evanston, Ill.—Two Big Brothers Big Sisters agencies in suburban Chicago will no longer offer the agency’s signature program: the one-to-one program in...
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Behavior Modification: Abuse Alleged
Rep. George Miller of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Education and the Workforce Committee, wants the Department of Justice to...
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Newsmakers for December 2003
Nonprofits The Girl Scouts of the USA named Kathy Cloninger as its new CEO, replacing Marty Evans. Cloninger, a former program officer...
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Rethinking Trauma Talk
Sadly, it has become a well-practiced ritual. When a student opens fire at a school, when a teenager drowns on a Scout...
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Youth Work History
First lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her friend were afraid, and they didn’t mind letting the three dozen people gathered with them in...
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A Rush to Placement, or a Rush to Judgment?
The latest child protection horror story from New Jersey – this one involving a couple charged with starving and neglecting their adopted...
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GOP Investigates Sex Ed, Steers Money to Abstinence
Is James Wagoner paranoid, or is the federal government out to get him? The president of Advocates for Youth, a national organization...
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Congressional Roundup
Job Training Senate sponsors of legislation to reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act do not expect the full Senate to make many changes...
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Newsmakers for November 2003
Foundations The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (assets: $1.7 billion) board voted to hire CEO Carl Schramm in April 2002. That appears to...
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U.S. Government to Discontinue Low-Yield Investment in Youth
Washington, D.C.—In an effort to streamline federal financial holdings and spur growth, Treasury Secretary John Snow announced Monday that the federal government...
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Report Roundup for November 2003
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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The Urge To Merge
Denver—After eight years as the executive director of The Spot, a hip-hop program for at-risk youth in Denver, Dave DeForest-Stalls was exhausted....
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The Urge To Merge
Denver—After eight years as the executive director of The Spot, a hip-hop program for at-risk youth in Denver, Dave DeForest-Stalls was exhausted....
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A Kinder, Gentler Shock Program?
“You either love this program or you hate it,” Charlie Stancil says of his creation, a shock regimen for disruptive youth that...
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A Youth Boycott Tries to Ring Bells
There are several reasons to urge teenagers to avoid fast food chains like Taco Bell, but is one of those reasons …...
