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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Make College Pay for Youth Workers

In response to the cover story in February [“Local Schools Give Youth Workers More Class”]: You noted that youth workers who enroll...

After-School Data Old, Discredited

Your readers would have been well-served if your brief article on the RAND Corp.’s recent paper on afterschool programs (“Current-Generation Youth Programs:...

Judges’ Council Above Reproach

As president of the National Juvenile Court Services Association, I am concerned by recent press reports regarding the operations of the National...

Competence is Cool

Interest in after-school programs for high schoolers is growing around the country, and in many quarters. Several recent national conferences have focused...