Youth Today
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Summer Jobs Outlook Cold for Poor
Cincinnati, a hotspot of urban unrest last month, faces “a mess of a summer,” forecasts a local youth worker who laments that...
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A DAREing Rescue
They had sparred long distance through newspapers and on TV, but they met for the first time over coffee and bagels in...
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Trumpeting For Fatherhood
It has been a sterling year so far for fathers, at least for GOP advocates of pro-father policies. But first we note...
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Guns Are Back
“I refuse to leave any child behind in America,” says President George W. Bush. Here are four: Randy Ruiz, 17, and Brian...
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Ex-Convicts Connect With Kids
Position wanted: Working with kids. Education: High school dropout. Honors: Top drug salesman for street gang. Convicted of drug trafficking and weapons...
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Answered Prayers
Advocates of national service were thrilled when Bill Clinton made the expansion of federal support for community service opportunities a centerpiece of...
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Bad Form on Welfare Reform
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you – and flies you, and puts you up in a nice hotel. When members...
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Foundation Fluctuations
The Denver-based Gill Foundation (assets $240 million) has announced the impending departure of executive director Katherine Pease. Founded in 1994 by Quark...
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Right On, Right Now!
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...
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On the Move
Where are they now? Former President Clinton, looking for a new office, has bumped New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services from...
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Promising Practices: Supporting Transition of Youth Served by the Foster Care System
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement, Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine National Resource Center...
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A Peek at President Bush’s Youth Policy
The federal government’s biggest after-school initiative dangles over the heads of youth-serving organizations like a pi-ata gorged with cash but hung too...
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Jerry Miller
BY HOLLIE I. WEST People in youth work are rarely neutral about Jerome G. Miller. “Probably the greatest reformer the...
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Younger Americans, Act II
The 107th Congress brings bright prospects for the Younger Americans Act (YAA), a cash-rich proposal for youth work endorsed last September by...
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The $100 Million Club
A hundred million here, $77 million there-and that’s just the new money flowing toward the Atlanta-based Boys & Girls Clubs of America...
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Shepherd’s Watch
If Dubya is the preacher of those flocking to the faith-based standard, the senior deacon is former Indianapolis mayor Steve Goldsmith, who...
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Foundation Events
Youth organizing programs and initiatives will receive a big boost next month when $600,000 in grants launch the first joint effort of...
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National Groups
The U.S. program office of the Baltimore-based International Youth Foundation (IYF) is changing its name and modifying its mission. Located in the...
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Youth Work On Ice
ANAHEIM, Calif. An unusual twist in youth development work began modestly in 1977 when Neal Henderson decided to use his driveway outside...
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Burned Out? Take $100K and Call Us in the Morning
BY AMY BRACKEN New York City, youth worker Barry Joseph of Global Kids uses a New Voices fellowship to design a...
