Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
… Create Internships that Lead to Jobs
Pipeline to jobs: Groups like Solar One, which trains teens for “green” jobs, use internships to prepare disadvantaged youth for work and...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Independent Living Unit
Allegheny County Department of Human ServicesPittsburgh, Pa.(412) 350-5701http://www.alleghenycounty.us/dhs Objective: To provide assistance to youth aging out of the child welfare system...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Nancy Morales, Young Workers Project Coordinator
Nancy Morales UCLA-Labor Occupational Safety and Health (LOSH) Program – Young Workers Project Los Angeles(310)794-5964http://www.losh.ucla.edu/youngworkers Age: 26 Salary: Around $35,000 annually. My...
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Opinion
A Plan to Help Save Nonprofits
Where is the bunker mentality, the hunker-down discipline, the emergency perspective, the feet-to-the-fire policy response to assisting youth-serving (and other) nonprofits in...
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Opinion
The Voices of Homeless Teens Must Be Heard
The simple act of placing legislators and homeless teens in the same room and allowing them to pick one another’s brain...
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Opinion
Subsidized Guardianship Makes Sense
The following is in response to “States Approaching the GAP with Caution,” in Child Welfare Today at http://www.youthtoday.org. A version of that...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Taming the Wild Ones
Represent, New York My parents and foster parents never taught me manners. I mean, I’m sure my mom and dad taught...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
My Personal Trainer
LA Youth, Los Angeles (Names have been changed.) A few years ago, I was in a group home in West Los...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Technology Boosts Youth Assets
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation launched the Community Access to Technology (CAT) program in 1999 to help provide local communities in...
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Science in After-School Market Research Study
Coalition for Science After School (CSAS) More than 50 years after the launch of Sputnik initiated a broad campaign to increase...
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Connected by 25: Financing Housing SupportsConnected by 25: Financing Policies and Practices That Support Permanency
The Finance Project Initiatives designed to improve the lives of youths aging out of foster care could be funded by tapping...
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Diplomas and Dropouts: Which Colleges Actually Graduate Their Students (and Which Don’t)
American Enterprise Institute Based on data from the U.S. Department of Education, this report examines the graduation rates of more than...
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Job Corps: Better Targeted Career Training and Improved Preenrollment Information Could Enhance Female Residential Student Recruitment and Retention
U.S. Government Accountability Office Job Corps should confront the under-enrollment among females in its residential programs by offering career training that...
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Building Blocks For Kids: Creating Intervention Systems That Support Young Children’s Healthy Development
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago This webcast, a one-hour recording of which is available online, focuses on how states...
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Research-Based Recommendations to Improve Child Nutrition in Schools and Out-of-School Time Programs
Child Trends Want children to eat a healthier diet? Make certain they know what a healthy diet is and expose them...
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Health Care Reform for Children with Public Coverage: How Can Policymakers Maximize Gains and Prevent Harm?
Urban Institute In examining how health care reform might affect the estimated 25 million children now covered under Medicaid or the...
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Major Depressive Episode and Treatment among Adolescents
U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Less than half of the estimated 2 million American youths who experienced a...
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Youth Development Approach: Turning Crisis into Opportunity
National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) HIV and STD health education programs that promote improved well-being are more...
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Making Every Day Count: Boys & Girls Clubs’ Role in Promoting Positive Outcomes for Teens
Public/Private Ventures This latest report on P/PV’s multi-year study of Boys & Girls Clubs finds that the more often youths participate...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Public Charter Schools Job Board
http://jobs.publiccharters.org Charter school employers and their prospective employees can search for one another on this site, a tool of the nonprofit charter...
