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Youth Work in Hurricanes

The Impact: Buildings lost, staff and kids scattered The executive director of the Youth Empowerment Project was trying to hold her...

Report Roundup from October 2005

Education2005 ACT ScoresAmerican College Testing Program Hundreds of thousands of 2005 high school graduates will begin college or work academically unprepared and...

Laura Bush’s Youth Work Tour

Throughout the year, first lady Laura Bush has traveled the country touting programs that the White House says do everything from steering...

Newsmakers for September 2005

Foundations Former U.S. Rep. Steve Gunderson (R-Wis.), the first openly gay Republican congressman, was tapped to replace Dorothy Ridings as CEO of...

Youth Development’s Racial Challenge

Chicago The Southwest Youth Collaborative is housed in a corner building covered by graffiti murals and perched at the junction of several...

Report Roundup of September 2005

Education The MetLife Survey of the American Teacher: Transitions and the Role of Supportive Relationships, 2005MetLife This year’s annual survey focuses on...

New Homes for Foster Care’s Old Folks

After a day of hustling between college classes and two jobs, 19-year-old Sean Dachtler is ready to fall into bed in his...

Newsmakers for July 2005

Nonprofits Nine months after the passing of Rich Scofield, founder and president of the Nashville-based School-Age Notes (SAN), a veteran youth work...

Report Roundup of July – August 2005

A compilation of the reports from this issue.

Outreach Worker’s Fire Sets Off Alarms

The city’s most famous homeless youth advocate and onetime accused killer sits in Denny’s, although sitting doesn’t really describe the behavior of...

Report Roundup for June 2005

A compilation of the reports from this issue.

So Many Friends, So Fast

Portland, Ore. One of the first things Catherine Milton noticed when she became president of Friends of the Children (FOTC) three years...

Evolution of the Giraffe

John Graham admits that when he first heard about the Giraffe Project, which inspires kids with stories about heroes who stick their...

Newsmakers for June 2005

Nonprofits Perhaps no program in youth work draws adulation and criticism in equal measure as much as the Children’s Aid Society’s Adolescent...

Blueprint for Political Action?

So-called “527” organizations drew national attention last year for helping to torpedo the presidential candidacy of Democrat John Kerry with allegations about...