Ralph RosenbergExecutive DirectorCoalition for Family and Children’s ServicesDes Moines, Iowa“Aiding Front Line Youth Workers” [October] is a timely editorial. Hopefully, the editorial...
Fran RothsteinRothstein ConsultingChevy Chase, Md.Not only do extracurricular activities inhibit substance abuse and other high-risk behaviors, as Jane Quinn correctly claims in...
Donna Metcalf Barre, Vt.Your article [“Is This Any Way to Treat Foster Parents?” July/August] touched on several areas where there are problems...
Judith LevineBrooklyn, N.Y.Contrary to the implication of Steven Mintz’s review [The Youth Today Review of Books, October], my book, “Harmful to Minors,”...
Several offices and responsibilities are being shifted at the U.S. Department of Education in an effort to improve the quality of research...
In the only state that makes every youth perform “service” in order to graduate from high school, the concept of service has...
The human service work force is arguably the least visible part of the American labor market of 134 million wage earners. A...
Brooke Harvey , Project AssociateJoyce Shortt, Co-DirectorNational Institute on Out-of-School TimeWellesley, Mass. While there is no question that the road to increasing...
Bill MaierVice PresidentFocus on the FamilyColorado Springs, Colo. I’m writing to let you know how much I appreciated Andrew Beadle’s fair, balanced,...
Liz Fletcher Brown Mentoring Program CoordinatorFort Worth, TexasIn the article “Gay Youth Leaders?” [September], you and others consistently referred to sexual orientation...
Marina WintonChief Executive Officer“I Have a Dream” FoundationNew York, N.Y. In response to Bill Treanor’s “Nose Knows” column [September], I would like...
Sandra S. BennettDirectorNorthwest Center for Health & SafetyPortland, Ore. Regarding the viewpoint article by Robert Sharpe, “U.S. Drug Policy: Maximizing Harm Reduction”...
Sara Jumping Eagle Pine Ridge Reservation, S.D. I’m an Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge reservation [and] a pediatrician doing an adolescent...
An article in the September Youth Today, “Gun Safety Programs Take a Shot,” incorrectly stated the estimated number of children reached through...
There is a new mantra on Capitol Hill: scientifically based research. The term is used more than 100 times in the No...
Here’s a story from the friendly skies. One day last summer, on a flight from Atlanta to New York, I came across...
By Andrew Sum and Nathan Pond Substantially weakened national labor market conditions since the early winter of 2001 have dramatically reduced job...
Few topics are of more interest to youth service practitioners than insuring a decent income for face-to-face youth workers. Paradoxically, few topics...
Youth Today – the Newspaper on Youth Work began publishing in September 1992. Our survival has always been in doubt, our funding...
What a pity that for many youth workers, one common side effect of their difficult work is the loss of astonishment. They...