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Report Roundup for April 2003
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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A Youth Center Built on Gold
East St. Louis, Ill.—On a residential street, catty-corner from a hopping neighborhood tavern lit with neon signs and across from a garbage-strewn...
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Children at Bay
This is the second of two articles examining how the child sex abuse scandal is affecting youth work in the Catholic Church....
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Panther in the Bush
Magi ya Chai, Tanzania—Close the door or you will be sharing your room with cobras!” warns a sign on one of the...
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Kidnapped Kids
The dramatic return of teenager Elizabeth Smart to her family last month focused national attention on a question that her father raised...
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Human Services Work Force in ‘Critical Condition’
The United States could soon face a critical shortage of quality human services workers unless the government and the public dramatically increase...
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Newsmakers for March 2003
NonprofitsSave the Children, the international nonprofit relief organization that works in more than 40 countries, has named Mark Shriver to be managing...
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Report Roundup for March 2003
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Bush Vision for Youth Funding Has Advocates Seeing Red
Federally funded children and youth services – touching just about everything from drug counseling and job training to foster care and juvenile...
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Watchdogs to Bishops
While the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church primarily involves priests, little public attention has been paid to the fact that...
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After-School Programs
The federal government’s increased support for after-school funding and its drive to boost academic achievement have collided head-on, leaving one of the...
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Prosecuter’s Database of ‘Future Criminals’ Draws Fire
Boasting that he could readily supply the names, addresses and phone numbers of “future criminals,” Mobile County, Ala., District Attorney John Tyson...
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Newsmakers for February 2003
National Nonprofits The D.C.-based National Network for Youth, the trade group of service providers for runaway and homeless youth, continues its wobbly...
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Report Roundup for February 2003
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Youth Development: It’s the Law
Hartford, Conn.—Officials here think they’ve found an answer to one of the common raps against state youth policies: that they are shallow,...
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Abstinence Ed Money Makes Odd Bedfellows
Leslee Unruh recalls the days not long ago when she and a few colleagues traveled the country like frontier pioneers, urging youth...
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Abuse Drops as Teens See Danger
Maybe the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on advertisements to discourage teen smoking, drinking and illegal drug use are paying dividends....
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Foster Care Tragedies Send States Scrambling
Nobody seems to know where 6-year-old Rilya Wilson is or if she’s even alive, but her disappearance from a foster home two...
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Bush’s Congressional Bypass Paves The Way for Faith-Based Agencies
President Bush has made it easier for faith-based groups to win government contracts while allowing them to reject job applicants based on...
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Newsmakers for December 2002
Foundations After announcing that it would restructure its grant making around seven business units, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (assets: $1.6 billion)...
