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A ‘Five-Star’ President Who Happens to be Bi-Racial

On Jan. 20, I joined millions of Americans and millions more around the world to watch the inauguration of our 44th...

A Shout Out to Michelle Obama

There is one goal that each of us in the youth “business” shares: to ensure that all children receive the full...

Feedback

The Real Obama Stands Regarding Mike Males’ February column, “Will the Real Obama Please Stand Up – For Youth?” I feel...

OBAMA JOB WATCH: Department of Justice (Updated May 18)

Office of Justice Programs The “Yes We Can” attitude at President Obama’s Justice Department must have resonated with Laurie Robinson. The Clinton-era...

Aching for Adults

At a recent dropout prevention conference in New York state, a panel of five teenagers shared their ideas about what it...

Will the Real Obama Please Stand Up – For Youth?

Barack Obama wrote three books rife with praise for his mother’s character, intellectuality and accomplishments – yet he never mentioned that...

School-Based Mentoring

I want to thank you for covering the latest study regarding the Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) high school [mentoring] program...

Three Candidates for OJJDP

[Note: This piece also appears in the Obama Job Watch in Youth Today‘s Latest News section] The scuttlebutt points to two widely-known...

A Chance for Us to Do Better by Kids

Richart Three weeks before the election that swept Barack Obama into the presidency, Gara LaMarche, president of The Atlantic Philanthropies (assets: $3...

Take a Stand, Even If it Costs You

One of the largest corporate entities here in Burlington, Vt., is Burton Snowboards, which I normally wouldn’t have anything to do...

Ready for Life: Yes, That Means College

The core belief at the Forum for Youth Investment – that all young people should be “Ready by 21,” meaning ready for...

How We Combat DMC

Mark Soler Some additional information about DMC is necessary to avoid error and misunderstanding. First, there are actually three goals in reducing...

Responses to YT’s Coverage of JDAI and Models for Change

Some people had strong reactions to “A Tale of Two Reforms,” John Kelly’s cover package last month about the Annie E....

MFC Boosts Aftercare

The article on Models for Change in Pennsylvania regrettably fails to capture the nature and substance of the initiative. Pennsylvania’s juvenile...

How MacArthur Builds Reform

Ned Loughran The story about Models for Change failed to capture how MFC is building a successful and sustainable reform effort in...

Sensationalism

I was disappointed to read John Kelly’s “Tale of Two Reforms.” I am the recently retired chief probation officer in Santa Cruz...

Progress in St. Paul

This letter is in response to statements in last month’s DMC story that questioned whether work done by the W. Haywood Burns...

Peer Mentoring

The following Web post was about the November story, “Peer-to-Peer Pressures: Study shows the limits of using high schoolers as mentors,” regarding...