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Newsmakers for May 2005

Nonprofits The debate at Omaha, Neb.-based Girls and Boys Town over hiring a new executive director two years ago was so heated...

Newsmakers for April 2005

Nonprofits Last month, Marc Schindler left the D.C.- and San Francisco-based Youth Law Center (YLC), a nonprofit that has lobbied and litigated...

Report Roundup for April 2005

Child Welfare Substance Use and Need for Treatment among Youths Who Have Been in Foster Care U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health...

Holy Youth Work

Baltimore, Md.—In 1954, a U.S. Senate subcommittee summoned child psychologists and comic book publishers to hearings on a matter of grave national...

Behind the Death Penalty Ban

For the past several years, Dr. David Fassler has enjoyed putting his plastic brain through x-ray machines at airports. At an airport...

An Agency’s Near-Fatal Drift Ends with an Unlikely Rescue

In 1999, the Columbine High School shooting claimed the lives of 14 youths and changed the lives of millions of Americans. It...

Organizations sign memo to White House urging youth priorities

In a new effort to coordinate the youth work field around major national priorities, more than 200 youth-serving organizations signed a memo...

Youth Advocates Vie for Attention in Washington

Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle introduced bipartisan legislation last month that would, for the first time, attempt to...

Newsmakers for March 2005

Nonprofits The Los Angeles-based Amer-I-Can Foundation has long been a darling of Congress, receiving $1.7 million over the past four years in...

Report Roundup for March 2005

Child WelfareEstimating Financial Support for Kinship CaregiversThe Urban Institute This brief examines government payments to children in private kinship care (77 percent...

Bush’s New Deal

Every year, the release of the president’s proposed budget sets off a ritual of sky-is-falling wails from youth advocates and people who...

What Teenagers’ Faith Means for Youth Work

By Yonat Shimron Chapel Hill, N.C.—For the increasing number of faith-based programs that serve youth, an extensive study of teenagers’ religious beliefs...

Plentiful Pork

At a time when the federal government increasingly demands that youth-serving programs prove their effectiveness through evaluations in order to get funded,...

Tracking Alumni

By Ed Finkel Bloomington, Ill.—Construction contractor Jason Wallace heard an unexpected knock at his front door one day a couple of years...

A Critic Joins the System

After 20 years of slugging it out with police, prosecutors and bureaucrats, juvenile justice reformer Vincent Schiraldi has joined their ranks. “If...

Newsmakers for February 2005

NonprofitsJudge James Payne, who was the president-elect of the Reno, Nev.-based National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ), will pass...

Report Roundup for February 2005

A compilation of the reports from this issue.

Newsmakers for December 2004 – January 2005

Nonprofits Theresa Costello of the Charlotte, N.C.-based ACTION for Child Protection will be director of the National Resource Center on Child Protective...

Times are Tough – Get Used to It

Chicago, Ill.—Former congressional staffer Ron Haskins stood before a gathering here last month of some of the most notable researchers and advocates...