Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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A Gift Too Far
The Bush administration’s latest “play now, pay later” tax cut is now the law of the land. The cumulative impact of the...
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Youth and Financial Assets
Capitalism doesn’t worship the young for nothing. The teenage and tween buying market is huge, with kids spending $9.5 billion on personal...
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Letters to the Editor
Promise to Get the FactsPeter A. Gallagher, CEOAmerica’s Promise Alexandria, Va.Wraparound’s I am writing in response to your recent Nose Knows column...
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21st Century Skills and Indicators
We’re getting close. On June 5, 50 hand-picked researchers, practitioners and policy experts from academia and youth development gathered in Washington at...
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Summertime: Is the Living Too Easy?
Many of the young people that youth agencies serve are about to lose a lot of what they’ve spent the past nine...
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Responding to Crisis
The Catholic Church sex abuse scandal offers an ever-growing list of lessons in how to handle or flub an organizational crisis, with...
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Rally for AmeriCorps
Since the 1993 passage of Bill Clinton’s national service legislation that set up the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the...
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A New ‘To Do’ List For Youth Work
Why do you make a personal “to do” list? To get things done. To set priorities and work efficiently. To hold yourself...
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Letters to the Editor for June 2003
Ex-Panther Is No HeroJohn W. McCullough, Executive DirectorNew Justice Conflict Resolution Services Syracuse, N.Y. I am deeply troubled by your laudatory article...
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Kids, Talk to Your Grownups
“Talk to your kids about” drugs, violence and sex, urge various advertisements featuring West Wing celebrities, drug czars and other panacea-types. But...
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Still at Risk, but Not at Sea
Twenty years ago in April, the National Commission on Excellence in Education gave the country a wake-up call with the release of...
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Time to Mark Our Territory
While American and British youth work may look similar, they operate in very different cultures and funding contexts. Moreover, the youth work...
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Wages, Worth and the Budget
Like people in any occupation, youth workers and managers take a keen interest in their own wages. The only thing that can...
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Letters to the Editor
Bush Neglects Youth Development Marty MartinezCommunity Health SpecialistRegional Center for Healthy CommunitiesCambridge, Mass. I read the two letters to the editor [in...
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Youth Consultants For Change
Summer is coming. In communities across the country, nonprofits, schools, faith groups and businesses will offer young people a broad range of...
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Give P’s a Chance
Despite several glaring problems, the recent Mathematica Policy Research study reporting first-year findings from the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program contains...
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Facing the Work Force Crisis
By Douglas W. Nelson The challenge that faces America’s human services labor force is a simple one. The work forces in child...
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The Future of After-school Programs
At a time of enormous economic and international uncertainty, a group of stalwart souls recently gathered in Los Angeles to assess the...
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Letters to the Editor for April 2003
Abstinence Ed Hurts YouthAlice Leibowitz, Program ManagerBreaking the CycleHartford, Conn. I was very surprised to see an article in Youth Today that...
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Some Things Do Make a Difference
While the debate over whether after-school programs make a difference in academic achievement takes shape inside the Washington Beltway, more good news...
