Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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Help Local Foundations Play a Role in Youth Policy
Many local foundations, especially the smaller ones, could use some help in understanding and working in the arena of youth policy. In...
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It’s Time to Help Pregnant and Parenting Foster Youth
While working as a consultant many years ago, I was moved by the words of a pregnant young woman in foster...
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Disservice
Managing Editor Nancy Lewis’ October report from New York about the ServiceNation summit (“Party Service”) drew several responses. It’s a shame...
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Foster home staffer attacks youth
Several people were angered by what they saw in our online story and video link about a foster home staffer attacking a...
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Put Me in Coach, I’m Ready to Play
As millions of youth workers and teachers reconnect this fall with our nation’s young people, now is a good time to...
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Let’s Apply What Works For Disconnected Youth
Tightening budgets and plummeting employment rates are particularly troubling for those of us who work with youth who have dropped out...
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Feedback: Letters, E-mails and Web Postings
Career Ladder Opportunities Thanks for the article on Hector Fabio Urrea in September (“Climbing Career Ladders”). There are numerous ways that...
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Why I Back McCain: His Core Values Would Favor Youth
A while ago, I heard Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) give a speech related to youth, and I have to say it could...
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Why I Support Obama: He Gets Community Service
On Wednesday, Sept. 4, I left work at Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción (Puerto Rican Tenants in Action), a nonprofit community organization in...
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Challenging the Media’s Anti-Youth Bullying
The American news media’s relentless crusade against young people is becoming crazier by the day. Networks incessantly replay years-old video of a...
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What Youth Programs Teach
At a recent session of a youth development program, during a Mad Libs activity that served as an icebreaker, one of...
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Time to Boost Service-Learning
Twenty-five years ago, when the National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC) opened its doors, service-learning was a little-known strategy for engaging young...
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Letters to the Editor for September 2008
Insult to Youth Regarding “The End of Youth?” article by Andrew Hahn: I do not think Mr. Hahn advances our cause with...
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Wanted: Youth Work Principles in Schools
Seven students recently joined me for breakfast in a windowless conference room in Des Moines, Iowa, to talk about “the high school...
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The End of Youth?
At a time when many foundations are supporting education reform and millions of philanthropic dollars are going to fund youth development programs,...
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The Case Against Incentives
Last year, the administration of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a series of experimental initiatives whose intention was to lift...
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Be Wary of Residential Care
The letter from Heidi Goldsmith in your June issue, advocating the use of residential centers [in child welfare], makes a number of...
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A New Kind of Smoking?
Heed my cautionary tale about how ideology sabotages insights. Back in 2000, I set out to prove that cigarette smoking, like other...
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Time for a 180 on Youth Advocacy
FirstFocus, the advocacy organization affiliated with the America’s Promise Alliance, recently released “Children’s Budget 2008,” a comprehensive guide to the more than...
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Residential Centers Can Be Ideal
John Kelly’s article “Child Welfare’s Historic Headache” [May] states, “Yes, residential centers are overused in child welfare.” Why is this stated as...
