2015: Year in Review | Page 502 of 667

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Summer Jobs Programs Hard to Assess

The summer youth employment opportunities funded by the Recovery Act could not find jobs for every participant, but the Department of...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Job Corps Turns 45

With the U.S. Capitol as its stage, Job Corps celebrated its 45th birthday last month with robotics demonstrations and testimonies from...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Conviction Shows Background Check Risk

How thorough are your background checks for prospective employees? The conviction of a paid mentor in Washington, D.C., highlights the risks...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Youth Villages Absorbs Inner Harbour

The decline in government referrals to residential programs continues to force decades-old youth agencies to close their doors or ask bigger...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Foundation Council Lays Off Staff

The recession has forced many nonprofits and foundations to lay off staffers and wonder how they’ll fulfill their missions with fewer...

News

‘Vacancy’ Signs Frustrate Youth Advocates

The slow pace of filling jobs in the Obama administration is stalling progress on youth issues. Advocates for disadvantaged youth grew...

News

The Economic Case for Dropout Fight

Wise: “The best economic stimulus is a high school diploma.” In a time of economic unease, dropout-prevention leaders are stepping up...

News

Mentoring Grants Include Newcomers, Surprises

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention made the much-anticipated announcement of its national mentoring grant winners last month. The...

News

States Happy with OJJDP Staff, Worry about Dwindling Dollars

State juvenile justice leaders find staffers at the federal juvenile justice office helpful, though slow to respond at times, and bemoan...

► Newsmakers

Newsmakers for October 2009

Doug Nelson Foundations When he walked into Annie E. Casey Foundation’s old headquarters in Greenwich, Conn., in 1990, Doug Nelson thought...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

… Run Home Visitation Programs

Based on growing evidence that both intellectual and emotional development begin at, if not before, birth, voluntary home visitation programs for pregnant...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Youth Ambassadors (YA)

Street-level diplomacy: Fanon Hill and his Youth Ambassadors pound the Baltimore pavement to develop and promote ideas to help the community....

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Kyle Ozechowski, Program Supervisor, Youth Counselor

Kyle Ozechowski Friends of Youth – Griffin HomeRenton, Wash.(425) 228-5776http://www.friendsofyouth.org Age: 27 Salary: $30,000 My Organization: Friends of Youth provides services...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

One More Time: Don’t Pit Preschoolers Against Teens

States are struggling. Children’s lives, too often, are truly in the balance as states and localities decide where to make cuts, often...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Give, Get or Get Off Youth Program Boards

I have often heard it politely put that board members for youth-serving agencies give of their “time, talent and treasures.” In...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Where Is the Youth Czar?

First there was the drug czar, followed quickly by the auto czar, the climate czar, the health czar, the urban czar...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

A Supportive Adult Goes a Long Way

Vanessa Fuentes, 24Represent, New York Being on your own after foster care can be very isolating, especially if you suffer from...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Can a Therapist Help Me Manage?

Andrea, 22Represent, New York (The author’s name has been changed.) I open my eyes and hear my therapist’s voice. “Andrea, do...

► Reports

Preventing Child Maltreatment

Princeton University/The Brookings Institution The fall 2009 entry in The Future of Children journal series explores the prevention of child maltreatment...

► Reports