Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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School-Based Mentoring Works
I read with interest Jen Russell’s article, “School-Based Mentoring Needs a Friend” (June). Having received and administered one of these grants,...
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A Plan to Help Save Nonprofits
Where is the bunker mentality, the hunker-down discipline, the emergency perspective, the feet-to-the-fire policy response to assisting youth-serving (and other) nonprofits in...
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The Voices of Homeless Teens Must Be Heard
The simple act of placing legislators and homeless teens in the same room and allowing them to pick one another’s brain...
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Subsidized Guardianship Makes Sense
The following is in response to “States Approaching the GAP with Caution,” in Child Welfare Today at http://www.youthtoday.org. A version of that...
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Berkshire Farm Feedback
The article “To Hell and Back” [May] described how the venerated residential care program Berkshire Farm Center fell from its standing as...
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Weekly Notes: Conn. JJ System Improves as Age-Change Nears; Curfew Laws Beget Curfew Laws; Luzerne Judges Scandal Update; and more
***Connecticut a model of juvenile justice? It was pretty surprising to see that theme in the headlines of state newspapers last week....
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Taking Risks for Transition-Age Youth
On any given day, scores of young people with limited individual and social capital are simultaneously struggling to exit some systems...
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Service Movement Creates Opportunities for After-School
What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility: a recognition on the part of every American that...
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How to Thrive In Hard Times
These are the best of times for youth-serving nonprofits – and the worst. On one hand, we’ve never had more public awareness...
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Sex Education
I found several points to disagree with [Kay S.] Hymowitz in her column in the May issue (“Don’t Blame Abstinence Ed”),...
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Obama’s 2010 Budget Proposal
The following Web posting was about President Obama’s 2010 budget proposal. Until policymakers look at youth development, workforce development, K-20 education, violence...
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Weekly Notes: Forget About 2009 Demo Grants at OJJDP; Obama’s 2010 JJ Budget; North Carolina May Join the Rest of Country; and more
***The biggest JJ news of the week was certainly the U.S. Supreme Court deciding to consider the constitutionality of life without parole...
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Don’t Blame Abstinence Ed
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) recently announced that births to teens in the United States had risen in 2007, for...
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Community Schools: A Rose By Any Other Name
When U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan appeared on the “Charlie Rose Show” in mid-March, he outlined a vision for America’s public schools...
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Biased Reporting
I am writing in regard to Jen Russell’s article, “Teen Births Rise Again – What Does It Mean?” in your April issue....
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Readers React to “Zero Tolerance Breeds Zero Justice”
The comments below are some of the online responses to “Zero Tolerance Breeds Zero Justice,” published in Youth Today in April and...
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They Are Back! Summer Jobs Return for Poor Kids, and a Confession
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 contains good news about summer programs for disadvantaged young people preparing for jobs, higher...
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The Problem with Sebelius: Tolerating Dishonesty, for Starters
Perhaps it’s inevitable with two wars and an economic crisis going on, but it is still disappointing that child welfare is not...
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Our Job: Dispel Myths about Homeless Youth
Every December, we hold a legislative open house in our drop-in center to which we invite Vermont legislators to come and learn...
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Street Child
Justin Reed EarlyAuthorHouse (self-published)289 pages. $19.99 ($15.99 paperback). Justin Early is a survivor. In his late 30s, an invitation to serve on...
