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Whistleblower: “My Life Ruined”
Ever since the 1999 Columbine massacre, adults have preached that the best way to prevent school violence is to get youths to...
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Detention Chief Quits Over Restraint Charges
When Joe Clark came on as director of the Essex County Juvenile Detention Center in 1995, he committed to staying until he...
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The Preemies Are Alright
A study of people who were born prematurely sheds more light on the ever-amazing resiliency of kids to overcome trauma. The study...
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4-H Marks a Century, Looks to the Next
To celebrate its 100th anniversary, 4-H has been holding a series of discussions nationwide about the future of youth work. 4-H has...
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Newsmakers for February 2002
Foundations The New York-based Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s policy shift to focus on strengthening urban youth service agencies in the Northeast has...
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The Day Starts at 3
by Richard Rothstein The art of Jacob Lawrence, the magnificent African-Amer-ican painter who wove color, shape, history and sociology into emotionally powerful...
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How a Song and A Prayer Opened Washington’s Wallet
No one pries money from the federal government for youth programs like Wintley Phipps. He sings. He sings to presidents. He...
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Satcher’s Sex Ed Prescription Hits ‘Wall of Ideology’
Will the United States ever reach a consensus on how to teach its youth about sex? It’s hard to see hope through...
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Youths Create Teen Center, Knife Kills
By Frank KlimkoSumter, S.C. henever youth worker Barbara Brown drives her beige Toyota Corolla past the boarded-up brick building behind the...
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America’s Longest Free-For-All
By Celeste Fremon Los Angeles The Los Angeles Free Clinic opened in 1967 during the Summer of Love, when kids from around the...
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CBO Access to Funds is Key in Education Bill
While the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) squeezes into a House-Senate conference committee with wildly disparate authorization levels,...
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Economic Boom Leaves Youth Agency Jobs Empty
By Martha Nichols Boston—Last year Sargent House, a proposed 12-bed home for adolescent boys, looked like it had achieved youth work nirvana:...
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Chasing Daniel
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,...
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Faith-Based Debate Stirs Britain
Leicester, England—President George Bush’s enthusiasm for enlisting faith groups to deliver more government-funded human services is spreading across the...
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Juvenile Crimes Tiptoe Into Congress
Last year at this time, opinions about proposed juvenile justice legislation were splashed across newspapers, flashed on television screens and hotly debated...
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Second Chance Homes Find A White House Friend – Again
First, the scourge was smallpox: In 1729, it brought women and their children to the nation’s first orphanage and...
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When Mom or Dad is Locked Up
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...
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For Youth Offenders, It’s Payback Time
Lincoln, Nebraska Marilyn Perez sometimes struggles to sleep in her own bed, ever since that terrorizing night last year when a...
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Bush Budget: Faith, Flexibility, And Families with Fathers
By Sue Badeau President George Bush last month unveiled the details of his administration’s first budget. Cabinet members held press conferences in...
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Myth of Plenty Lures Mexican Youth to U.S.
Tziritzicuaro, Mexico—Whenever she gets a chance, Principal Zoraida Vargas Serv’n encourages her students at the Gabriela Mistral Telesecundaria to stay in Mexico....
