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Reflecting on 10 Years of Reflection

Seventy thousand. That is roughly the number of words I have written for this column over the past 10 years. It seems...

Common Cents

The first time I visited Portland, Ore., some 12 years ago, I knew it was a cutting-edge kind of place. On the...

Stumbling Toward Youth Work Clarity

It seems at last that real youth work with teens is slowly making its way to the top of the agenda. Most...

With a Drug Czar like Walters, Who Needs Osama?

Nothing enrages the zealots at the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) – especially Director John Walters – like a...

Risky Businesses

Consider this: In 2001, more young people declared bankruptcy than graduated from college. College administrators speculate that bad debt, not bad...

The Fatal Flaw in Pew’s Foster Panel

The foster care system is broken and needs substantial overhaul. That much is evident. It is also clear that most of the...

At This Library, Youth Involvement Gets Real

When did Carmen Martinez, director of the Oakland Public Library, become an ardent advocate for fully infusing youth in libraries? Was it...

Letters to the Editor

Teaching Family Approach WorksT. Lindsay Joines Program Compliance/Crisis Management OfficerEliada Homes, Inc.Ashville, NC Your article on the Maryville Academy [March] … appears...

Newsmakers for May 2004

Nonprofits Bobby Heard became interim executive director of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) in mid-April. Heard, director of marketing and development for...

Riding on the Coattails of Brown

I was two years old when the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision came down in 1954. My public education...

Random Assignment

I have just finished reading a new book about young people that should be required reading for youth workers, teachers and, most...

The President’s Tilted Playing Field

Should a 19-year-old who is living on his own after leaving foster care have as much of a chance to get $5,000...

Editorial

Matching the Job to the Task On Feb. 3, Michael Hernandez of Miami slit the throat of fellow 14-year-old Jamie Gough in...

Connecting Vulnerable Youth

School dropouts, arguably the most vulnerable youth group in the United States, are also a group for which there is no meaningful...

Letters to the Editor

What Happened At MaryvilleRichard WexlerExecutive DirectorNational Coalition for Child Protection ReformAlexandria, VA The notion that Maryville [Academy] became a hellhole because poor,...

California’s Winter of Hate

February’s column featured anthropologist Margaret Mead’s warning that adults in modern cultures that are jolted by rapid social change will come to...

Behind the Teen Pregnancy Drop: Teens

“Less sex, more contraception.” That’s the story behind the continued drop in teenage pregnancy rates. According to the latest data, teen pregnancy...