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McGruff & Co.

If charm alone could prevent crime, then Jack Calhoun’s 21 years as head of the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) could be...

Creating Character-Rich Communities

I’ll admit it: I’ve got mixed feelings about character education classes – emphasis on “classes.” My gut instinct, first as a parent,...

Applied Economics

When I enrolled in a graduate school of social work many years ago, I found myself to be a distinct outsider –...

Searching for Evidence, Evidently

It’s right up there with the search for the Holy Grail or the Loch Ness monster: no, not the hunt for weapons...

Letters to the Editor

Adults: Wake UpOn Hip Hop Brian FrySouthern Christian ServicesJackson, Miss. Your article on hip-hop hit the nail on the head (“Hip-Hop: Love...

Enabling Adult Immaturity

“Young people have become more like adults,” writes historian Joseph Kett in Adolescence in America, while “adults have become more like young...

Don’t Be Left Out Standing in Your Field

Etched in my memory is the image of a card I received decades ago. The picture: a lone cow standing in a...

New Schools = New Opportunities for Youth Groups

Here’s a fact that may not have yet crossed the radar screen of most youth workers: America is involved in a major...

Web Watch for November 2003

Civic Engagement Young Politicians of Americawww.ypa.orgis the site for an upstart network for politically attuned youth. The Walnut Creek, Calif.-based organization,...

Drop and Kick

The youth field is certainly well acquainted with the power of hokey statistics. Inflated numbers are the stock in trade for everyone...

The Uses and Misuses of Evaluations

There’s hardly a youth program manager in the country who doesn’t understand the uses and misuses of evaluation studies. Surely all understand...

On Nature vs. Nurture, Success and Failure

Almost everyone remembers doing the obligatory science experiment where two identical seeds (mine were lima beans) are grown under different conditions and...

New Schools = New Opportunities for Youth Groups

Here’s a fact that may not have yet crossed the radar screen of most youth workers: America is involved in a major...

Taking Collaboration for Youth Seriously

As chairman of the National Collaboration for Youth, a coalition of more than 40 national nonprofit youth-serving and youth-interested organizations, I am...

Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do?

Suddenly, the world is filled with nasty girls. “Girls just want to be mean,” the New York Times Magazine announced last year,...

A Bend in the Trends

A battery of positive youth indicators over the past decade has brought encouraging news to all youth workers. Teen pregnancy, smoking and...

Letters to the Editor

Feeling Green Ann De LacyOlney, Md. Jim Myer’s story about the Darrell Green Youth Life Foundation (“Football Star Scores in Washington,” July/August)...

Gutless About Gut Issues

Obesity has only recently been publicized as a major American public health crisis, and already authorities are pushing the usual politically popular...