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The Value of Investing in Youth in the Washington Metropolitan Region
Prepared for the Morino Institute by the Brookings Institution Center on Urban & Metropolitan Policy When President Clinton took a tour of...
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Community Counts: How Youth Organizations Matter for Youth Development
This report is based on a study spanning 12 years, of 12-to-18-year-olds in urban and rural communities across the country, aimed at...
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Reviving Jackie Robinson
Richmond, Va.—Flush with a $50,000 grant from Major League Baseball, former big-leaguer John Young set out to build his field of dreams:...
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Youth Worker Impact: Passing On Tradition Keeps Game Alive
Richmond, Va.—When youth baseball coaches cite the names of the men who taught them the game, they touch on the special continuity...
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An Abrasive ‘Mother Teresa’ Says, ‘Drop The Guns’
LORAIN, Ohio—Re’Nee Gill’s service to kids came while she was saving herself. To understand her passion about stopping gun violence, go back...
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Congressional Mystery: The Quest for Mount Hope’s Youth Center
As budget items go, this one seemed simple: “$3,000,000 for the Mount Hope Center for a youth program.” Given the enormity of...
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Welfare-to-Work Overhaul Boosts Fatherhood Groups
It took 20 phone calls to persuade him, but 21-year-old Julius Armstrong – a noncustodial never-married father – finally said, “I’ve got...
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Case Could Harm U.S. Kids Abducted to Foreign Lands
The Elian Gonzalez child custody case may thrill foes of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, but it may jeopardize the return of more...
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Youth Empowerment’s Spotty Gains
For today’s youth activists the era of considering teens as primarily passive recipients of adult guidance may seem like life from another...
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Fatherhood Groups Aim to Make Men ‘Secure Within Themselves’
Although around since 1994, the D.C.-based National Practitioner’s Network for Fathers and Families (NPNFF) is just beginning to hit its stride as...
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In Milwaukee, Youth Worker Training Pays
Milwaukee, Wis.—Wanted: Youth workers to go to school to learn how to be better youth workers. Money a problem? We’ll pay. Time...
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Promises, Promises …
By Sue Badeau President Clinton released his eighth and final budget proposal last month, laying out a plan that would shape America’s...
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Separate and Unequal: A report on educational barriers for homeless children and youth
Homeless children and youth are often denied their right to attend public schools, according to this report funded by the W.K. Kellogg...
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Youth and Board Service: Experiences of Participation in Organizational Governance
The inclusion of youth on the boards of directors of youth-serving organizations benefits the youth clients, the youth board participants and the...
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Boot Camps Get a Kick in the Head
By David J. Krajicek Military-style boot camps for juvenile offenders have proven to be no more effective and no less costly than traditional...
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Conflicting Views On Dropout Rate
By Amy Bracken Two recently released reports offer conflicting views on U.S. education. The first, “Do You Know… The Good News About...
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The Case of the 6-Year-Old ‘Refugee’
By Amy Bracken The international hot potato over six-year-old Elian Gonzalez of Cuba landed in the lap of a family court judge...
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Shay’s Sashay
In one of the children and youth field’s most surprising and important leadership developments in a decade, Shay Bilchik, the presidentially appointed...
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Corralling Recent Events
One of D.C.’s more interesting gunsmoke duels is over. The shoot-out between Bill Novelli, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and...
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Pig Headed Pierce
Bill Pierce, president of the 130-member National Council for Adoption (NCFA) since its founding in 1980 retired at year’s end. Pierce surely...
