Youth Today

Office of Urban Affairs

http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/oua/ The White House offers a new page for its Office of Urban Affairs website that chronicles the office’s activities. Users will...

Fostering Media Connections

http://www.fosteringmediaconnections.org/ Site visitors can follow the Fostering Media Connections blog, updated with stories, articles and videos related to the organization’s events and...

Workforce3 One

http://www.workforce3one.org/page/grants_toolkit Grant applicants can use the tools on this website for guidance when applying for grants from the Labor Department’s Employment and...

Young Mothers @ The Margin

http://www.atthemargin.org Every page has links to the organization’s “Get Involved” YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and store pages. The home page allows viewers to...

Grants Awarded for April 2010

  Daniels Fund (303) 393-7220 http://www.danielsfund.org • Boys & Girls Club of Cheyenne,Wyo., $15,970 for a club meal and snack program. •...

CBS News Interviews Patrick Boyle About the Scouts’ Perversion Files

Boy Scout Confidential

Web Extras Book: Scout’s Honor: Sexual Abuse in America’s Most Trusted Institution A look inside a Confidential File Data on molesters in...

Are Daytime Curfews Becoming More En Vogue?

Note: This story was updated on April 1. Daytime curfew laws, which generally prohibit youths from traveling unsupervised in public during school...

Study Examines Teaching Occupational Skills Along with English

This new evaluation from the Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration deals with lessons learned from the Limited English Proficiency and...

Is it OK to Party on the Federal Dime?

Ho, ho, ho? Hell no. That sums up the reaction that the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) had...

Study Examines Teaching Occupational Skills Along with English

This new evaluation from the Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration deals with lessons learned from the Limited English Proficiency and...

Labor Dept. Reveals Youth Activities Funds

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration has released its final allotments for Youth Activities for program year 2010. The...

Essay Contest

While I can’t write about every single scholarship opportunity and essay contest that exists, this particular essay contest being sponsored by Junior...

Student Loan Overhaul Means More Money for Pell Grants

When President Barack Obama signs the student loan overhaul bill into law on Tuesday, it will represent a radical departure from a...

Rural Broadband Grants Announced

Libraries, schools, community centers and other public buildings in rural and tribal areas could soon see faster Internet speeds thanks to 12...

Survey: Nonprofits in for a Tough 2010

Nonprofit professionals are bracing for a financially difficult 2010 with an anticipated rise in the demand for services amid a still-uncertain economy,...

Weekly Notes: DOJ funding recap; LWOP cases next week?; Coalition for Juvenile Justice conference; and more

Note: this piece was updated on Monday morning Funding No new funding solicitations put out by the Department of Justice since we...

Health Law Gives Abstinence-only Programs New Life

The health care reform law that President Barack Obama signed into law March 23 to help Americans get access to health insurance...

Testing the Testing for Remedial Courses

Surprised and annoyed. That’s how some youths at Community College of Baltimore County say they felt when they found out they had...

New Publication Follows the Money for Disconnected Youth

A publication released last month by the Center for Law & Social Policy (CLASP), while making it a little easier to track...