By Martha Nichols Boston—Last year Sargent House, a proposed 12-bed home for adolescent boys, looked like it had achieved youth work nirvana:...
Four-year-old Daniel Wilson was literally a handful. “It was all I could do to hold him,” says his 31-year-old father, DeWayne Wilson,...
Leicester, England—President George Bush’s enthusiasm for enlisting faith groups to deliver more government-funded human services is spreading across the...
Last year at this time, opinions about proposed juvenile justice legislation were splashed across newspapers, flashed on television screens and hotly debated...
First, the scourge was smallpox: In 1729, it brought women and their children to the nation’s first orphanage and...
By Amy Bracken Jessup, Md.—Lowell Gibson lives 15 miles from her nine-year-old son but hasn’t seen him in three years. When...
Lincoln, Nebraska Marilyn Perez sometimes struggles to sleep in her own bed, ever since that terrorizing night last year when a...
By Sue Badeau President George Bush last month unveiled the details of his administration’s first budget. Cabinet members held press conferences in...
Tziritzicuaro, Mexico—Whenever she gets a chance, Principal Zoraida Vargas Serv’n encourages her students at the Gabriela Mistral Telesecundaria to stay in Mexico....
Cincinnati, a hotspot of urban unrest last month, faces “a mess of a summer,” forecasts a local youth worker who laments that...
They had sparred long distance through newspapers and on TV, but they met for the first time over coffee and bagels in...
It has been a sterling year so far for fathers, at least for GOP advocates of pro-father policies. But first we note...
“I refuse to leave any child behind in America,” says President George W. Bush. Here are four: Randy Ruiz, 17, and Brian...
Position wanted: Working with kids. Education: High school dropout. Honors: Top drug salesman for street gang. Convicted of drug trafficking and weapons...
Advocates of national service were thrilled when Bill Clinton made the expansion of federal support for community service opportunities a centerpiece of...
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you – and flies you, and puts you up in a nice hotel. When members...
The Denver-based Gill Foundation (assets $240 million) has announced the impending departure of executive director Katherine Pease. Founded in 1994 by Quark...
Bob’s back! Not that Bob Woodson, Sr., president-for-life of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, ever left D.C. But with a Democrat...
Where are they now? Former President Clinton, looking for a new office, has bumped New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services from...
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement, Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine National Resource Center...