Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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Youth Involvement Helps Adults
“The adults got more out of having the students speak at the conference than the kids themselves.” So said veteran community organizer...
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Underserved – And Undeserved?
My computer’s spell-check function automatically changes “underserved” to “undeserved.” I learned this the hard way, when I had to send a publication...
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Perfect Marriage, 21st Century Style
While the recent presidential election generated much heated discussion about the institution of marriage, the youth work field has quietly harnessed energy...
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Stop Feeding the Beast
I have decided that from this moment on, I am going to stop feeding the beast. Whenever and wherever I speak about...
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Why Are We So Eager to Fear Youth?
How far can you get in the kid-fixing biz by just making things up? All the way to institutional accolades, congressionally recognized...
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Good for Business, Bad for Kids?
The Washington Post, Sept. 30: Mayor Anthony Williams gleefully announces that Washington has won the competition to be the new home of...
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Do Youth Services Reduce Social Unrest?
What do Kenya, Liberia, Congo, Haiti, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Algeria, Iran, the Palestinian Territory and Saudi Arabia have in common?...
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Evaluation: Risk Or Responsibility?
The July/August issue of Youth Today featured not one, but two lengthy stories on evaluation. The first, sharing the front page...
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Risky Business
The recent report entitled “Reading at Risk” revealed that, for the first time in modern history, less than half of the adult...
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Transforming America’s Juvenile Justice System
Over the past five years, public scandals about the way young people are treated in America’s juvenile justice facilities have erupted in...
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Phony ‘Youth Risks’ Are a Risk to Youth
When Food and Drug Administration official Steven Galson recently blocked over-the-counter “Plan B” emergency contraception because he worried that 11- to...
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Helping Youth Tell the Truth
The truth hurts sometimes, but it shouldn’t hurt the truth tellers. At least that’s what we’ve been led to believe. Not so...
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Reflecting on 10 Years of Reflection
Seventy thousand. That is roughly the number of words I have written for this column over the past 10 years. It seems...
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Common Cents
The first time I visited Portland, Ore., some 12 years ago, I knew it was a cutting-edge kind of place. On the...
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Stumbling Toward Youth Work Clarity
It seems at last that real youth work with teens is slowly making its way to the top of the agenda. Most...
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With a Drug Czar like Walters, Who Needs Osama?
Nothing enrages the zealots at the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) – especially Director John Walters – like a...
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Risky Businesses
Consider this: In 2001, more young people declared bankruptcy than graduated from college. College administrators speculate that bad debt, not bad...
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The Fatal Flaw in Pew’s Foster Panel
The foster care system is broken and needs substantial overhaul. That much is evident. It is also clear that most of the...
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At This Library, Youth Involvement Gets Real
When did Carmen Martinez, director of the Oakland Public Library, become an ardent advocate for fully infusing youth in libraries? Was it...
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Letters to the Editor
Teaching Family Approach WorksT. Lindsay Joines Program Compliance/Crisis Management OfficerEliada Homes, Inc.Ashville, NC Your article on the Maryville Academy [March] … appears...
