Youth Today
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Defaulting by Default
The word default is an interesting word: It can mean the failure to do something or it can mean a situation or...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
OJJDP Mentoring Funds Boosted by $20 Million; $50 Million Also will Assist Children of Prisoners
The fiscal 2010 omnibus spending bill signed by President Barack Obama on Dec. 16 adds $20 million – for a total of...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Feedback Requested on Social Innovation Fund
Officials developing the newly appropriated Social Innovation Fund – a $50 million Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) initiative to support...
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News
College Opportunity Knocks, But Often Gets No Answer
When Kauffman Scholars Inc. launched its college access program with a group of seventh-graders in 2003, administrators thought its promise of a...
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News
A Business Model for National Service
The Red Jacket: Former Sen. Harris Wofford with Sen. Ted Kennedy, who often donned his City Year jacket for sailing. Photo: City...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Police Group Creates Military Spin-Off
A new organization that advocates funding youth programs drew a lot of media coverage last month by releasing a report that...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Survey Shows State of Adoptees and Their Parents
Twenty-six percent of adopted children have been diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and 15 percent...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Bills Would Cut School Transfers for Homeless, Foster Kids
Members of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee introduced two bills last month that would encourage academic stability for...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Fighting Hunger
An initiative to involve more Americans in hunger prevention was launched Thanksgiving week by the Corporation for National and Community Service,...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Can Sports Help Protect Chicago’s Youth?
A sports version of a program developed by a youth worker on a spiritual retreat has been chosen as the latest in...
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News
Stunning Decisions
Correction: The article below incorrectly stated that in 2005, Chicago police accidentally killed a 14-year-old in a residential treatment center with a stun...
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News
Gangster’s Path to a Peace Prize
King: “I’ve done more harm than good.” San Francisco—A round-faced man whose attire suggested modest means stood in the sun-splashed lobby outside...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for December 2009-January 2010
Marian Wright Edelman Nonprofits What’s been going on the past two years at the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF)? More than a...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
… Attract High Schoolers to After-School Programs
Persuading high school teens to participate in after-school programs is not an exact science, and it just gets more difficult as...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Local Organizations Outreach Program (LOOP)
Visalia, Calif.(559) 636-5000http://www.co.tulare.ca.ushttp://www.stepuptc.com Objective: Provide at-risk youth with free transportation to activities that connect them to mentoring and gang prevention programs...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
LaGina R. Harris
LaGina R. Harris Extension Club DirectorBoys & Girls Club of theAustin AreaAustin, Texas(512) 983-8606http://www.besomebodytosomebody.org Age: 24. Salary: Under $40,000 a year....
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News
OJJDP Leaders Talk Money, Politics and Advocacy
The administrators meet for the first time, minutes before the forum. Standing (left to right): Robert Sweet, Shay Bilchik and Verne Speirs;...
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News
OJJDP @ 35: Recollections
[See related article, OJJDP Leaders Talk Money, Politics and Advocacy; watch videos from the forum at http://www.youthtodayexchange.org] John Rector1977-1979Appointed by Jimmy Carter The...
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Opinion
Mandatory Free Choice Learning
The Institute for Learning Innovation defines free choice learning as “learning that fulfills the lifelong human quest for knowledge, understanding and...
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Opinion
Promise Neighborhoods: An Optimist’s View
Rick Cohen’s article, “Obama’s Zone Offense” (November), is appropriately cautious about the ability of the Promise Neighborhoods to “replicate” the Harlem...
