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Like Now: Changing the Future Today With Youth Advisory Boards
Designed as an introduction to youth advisory boards, this report explains why the Kauffman Foundation started one and “what we’ve learned in...
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Ignorance Only: HIV/AIDS, Human Rights and Federally Funded Abstinence-Only Programs in the United States
Focusing on Texas, which has a significant number of abstinence-only sex ed programs, the researchers contend that those programs endanger the health...
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Service-Learning Sits in School
In the only state that makes every youth perform “service” in order to graduate from high school, the concept of service has...
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Youth Media Crank Up the Volume
Chicago—With summer waning, traffic blocked off and kids and adults milling about, Ayanna Freeman appears on a TV monitor in the middle...
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Faith-Based Drive Sputters
Congress is not likely to enact legislation this session that would make it easier for faith-based organizations to compete for federal grants...
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Criminal Records Checks: National Agencies Click on Fast, Cheap Methods for Screening Volunteers
Several developments in the past few months have suddenly made it possible for any youth-serving nonprofit to quickly find out if any...
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Abducted Kids
A spate of highly publicized child abductions and kidnappings over the summer spurred the Senate to pass legislation (S 2896) establishing a...
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Newsmakers for October 2002
Foundations After only a few months with the Ypsilanti, Mich.-based High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, Terry Langston got an offer he couldn’t refuse....
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Hey, Kid: Get Off the Street
Portland, Ore.—Life for homeless teens here hasn’t been the same since the day a brawny bully dragged some scrawny youth agencies out...
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Bingo Jackpot
Along the Dixie Highway in Louisville, Ky., thousands congregate at bingo halls for a chance at easy money. Players can win big...
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Juvenile Justice Bill Slides Up Hill
Shhhhh. That’s the sound of juvenile justice advocates as they watch Congress tiptoe toward reauthorizing the nation’s juvenile justice programs, after seven...
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Struggle in Paradise
Lihu’e, Hawaii—Anyone trying to escape from what counts as civilization in most of the United States these days would be hard-pressed to...
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Gay Youth Leaders?
After watching the Boy Scouts come under attack for banning homosexual youth leaders, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBS) is fending...
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Eagle Feathers Fly
Gun safety programs for children and youth – including those run by the National Rifle Association and the Brady Center to Prevent...
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Locked-Up Latinos Get Counted Out
Latino youth are vastly undercounted in almost every state criminal justice system because of inadequate data collection and an absence of bilingual...
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Newsmakers for September 2002
A roundup of people on the move in the field of youth work. Nonprofits American Humanics, the Kansas City, Mo- based group...
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Missing Kids’ Center Vanishes
Tampa, Fla.—As tales of child abductions rivet the nation and prompt President Bush to convene a missing children’s conference next month, one...
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Youth Employment Councils Wobble
After a couple of years in operation, the Workforce Investment Board’s youth council in Yakima, Wash., is missing just one thing: a...
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Newsmakers for July 2002
A roundup of people on the move in the field of youth work. Nonprofits Sally Prouty begins her tenure this month as...
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Young Mothers Find Safe Haven for Unwanted Babies
In 10 months in 1999, people in Houston found 13 abandoned infants – in trash bins, outside a hotel lobby or stashed under...
