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Achieving Dreams

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...

Harm Reduction Hurts

Sandra S. BennettDirectorNorthwest Center for Health & SafetyPortland, Ore. Regarding the viewpoint article by Robert Sharpe, “U.S. Drug Policy: Maximizing Harm Reduction”...

Healing Indian Healthcare Wounds

Sara Jumping Eagle Pine Ridge Reservation, S.D. I’m an Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge reservation [and] a pediatrician doing an adolescent...

Corrections

An article in the September Youth Today, “Gun Safety Programs Take a Shot,” incorrectly stated the estimated number of children reached through...

A Delicate Balance

There is a new mantra on Capitol Hill: scientifically based research. The term is used more than 100 times in the No...

Of Men and Mice

Here’s a story from the friendly skies. One day last summer, on a flight from Atlanta to New York, I came across...

The Truth About Jobless Teens

By Andrew Sum and Nathan Pond Substantially weakened national labor market conditions since the early winter of 2001 have dramatically reduced job...

Worthy Wages for Youth Workers

Few topics are of more interest to youth service practitioners than insuring a decent income for face-to-face youth workers. Paradoxically, few topics...

Ten Years in Print

Youth Today – the Newspaper on Youth Work began publishing in September 1992. Our survival has always been in doubt, our funding...

Are You Bored Into Complacency?

What a pity that for many youth workers, one common side effect of their difficult work is the loss of astonishment. They...

Broken Promises Hurt CBOs

Marcy MistrettDirector for Training and EvaluationNational Funding Collaborative on Violence PreventionWashington, D.C. In response to the article about the National Campaign Against...

Foster Parent Twilight Zone

Karen Olson MannersExecutive DirectorChild & Family Services of Southwestern MichiganJoseph, Mich. I read with interest your article on foster parenting in the...

AIDS and Whores

AIDS, U.S. authorities told reporters and policy forums surrounding July’s World AIDS Conference in Barcelona, is just another teenage attitude problem. “HIV...

Free-Choice Learning

What do online searches, car repair manuals, museum exhibits, book clubs, teen hotlines and hip-hop dance lessons have in common? All are...

U.S. Drug Policy: Maximizing Harm

By Robert Sharpe In his June Youth Today column (“What Are You People? On Dope?”), Mike Males accuses the drug policy reform...

Opportunity Up in Smoke

Adults, particularly those holding or aspiring to political office, are fond of lamenting the purported shortcomings of today’s young people. Solutions to...

Dead People vs. Living Youth

Always ready to surprise with appalling public policy, this 107th Congress has been no disappointment. Consider the attention given to two issues:...

Make Colleges Work For the Community

By Andrew Hahn What prominent institution works as an occasional player in youth work but has the ability and resources to do...

Foster Kids Need A Bold Plan

By Betsy Krebs“When I was in foster care, no one talked to me about my future.” These words, typical of a former...

Why College?

Donald T. Floyd Jr.President/ CEONational 4-H CouncilChevy Chase, MD I am writing in response to the article, “College-Linked Training Spreads, But Does...