A decade ago, Roy Block, president of the Texas Foster Families Association, rarely heard about former foster youths going to college. Oh,...
SEN. STEVENS FEEDING HAPPY THE HIPPOPOTAMUS: One of them is where he belongs – behind bars. Wondering about that weeping and chattering...
Nonprofits Judy Nee officially became the first person to serve as the board president and CEO of the 18-year-old, Boston-based National AfterSchool...
Rebuilding Families, Reclaiming Lives: State Obligations to Children in Foster Care and Their Incarcerated Parents The Brennan Center for Justice at New...
Nonprofits Mark Russell is the new executive director at Kids Enjoy Exercise Now USA (KEEN), a D.C.-based nonprofit that provides free one-on-one...
The buzz about improving the high school graduation rate is becoming a roar. Governors’ children’s cabinets are picking this as the leading...
The statistics can be depressing: One-third of all Americans drop out of school. Only half of African-American, Latino and American Indian youth...
Youth volunteerism is being celebrated around the country in commemoration of National Service Day this month, but Andrew Furco recalls the resistance...
Nonprofits After seven years at the National Youth Employment Coalition (NYEC), Executive Director David Brown departs this month to join the ever-expanding...
Child Welfare Protecting Children in Foster Care: Why Proposed Medicaid Cuts Harm Our Nation’s Most Vulnerable ChildrenCasey Family Programs At least $10...
September is back-to-school month. And for the first time in the nation’s history, many communities are beginning to get an accurate sense...
Education The MetLife Survey of the American Teacher: Transitions and the Role of Supportive Relationships, 2005MetLife This year’s annual survey focuses on...
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
These are good times for community colleges. President Bush is stumping for support of the community college system. Special initiatives in the...
San Francisco—On the last day of a month-long summer program in life skills, 14-year-old Shedrick Milton left the cozy office of the...
This month’s studies remind us that research can surprise us and can have practical implications for youth workers, and that schools are...
Matching the Job to the Task On Feb. 3, Michael Hernandez of Miami slit the throat of fellow 14-year-old Jamie Gough in...
Wheat Ridge MinistriesOne Pierce Place, Suite 250EItasca, IL 60143(800) 762-6748www.wheatridge.org • Trinity Gardens Community Library Outreach Center, Mobile, Ala., $35,000 to help...
First lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her friend were afraid, and they didn’t mind letting the three dozen people gathered with them in...
Foundations The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (assets: $1.7 billion) board voted to hire CEO Carl Schramm in April 2002. That appears to...