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Evaluation of the YouthBuild Youth Offender Grants

The main findings on outcomes showed that a third of active participants at the 34 grantees got a GED while enrolled in...

Weekly Notes: New Head of Refugee Resettlement at HHS; Financing Needs of Aging Out Youth; and more

***Eskinder Negash has been appointed to be director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a division of the Administration for Children and...

Project Takes Aim at Remedial Math

A $2.5 million research project is being launched to find “promising strategies” to help students get through remedial education classes in college...

FDA Committee to Rule on Psych Meds for Youths

The Food and Drug Administration’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee will vote next week on whether to allow three psychotropic medications to be...

Child Protection and Adult Crime: Using Investigator Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of Foster Care

Doyle compared the criminal outcomes of youth in foster care to those who were kept with their families, excluding from his sample...

Connected by 25 Reports

Both reports cover youth aging out of the foster care system. Financing Housing Supports for Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care outlines...

CNCS Announces New AmeriCorps Grants

The Corporation for National and Community Service’s announcement today of the winners of the 2009 grant competition brings the number of AmeriCorps...

NCCPR’s ‘Give ’em Hell’ Approach Aimed at Problems with Michigan Reform

The National Coalition for Child Protection Reform (NCCPR) is not the biggest fan of Ismael Ahmed, the director of Michigan’s Department of...

Do “Early Commitment’ Programs Make a Difference?

Among the many strategies being employed to get more students from poor families enrolled in college, count the “early commitment” programs as...

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Obama’s Swoosh Shot

How did the vice president of the world’s largest shoe company – whose primary job was to calm the uproar over Nike’s...

Growing a Workforce

Skills with teeth: Pam Fuller, 17, practices using a dental instrument in her dental assisting class at Central Educational Center. Photo: Jamaal...

Governments Delay Grant, Contract Payments

  Here’s another sign of how the recession is affecting youth services: About half of youth-oriented groups that responded to a recent...

The Best, Worst Places to Work in Federal Gov’t.

  A nonprofit last month released rankings of the best places to work in federal government in 2009, based on surveys of...

Nonprofit to Run City’s Youth Programs

  At a time of government budget deficits, can youth-serving organizations run programs cheaper and easier than their local governments can? A...

Californians Balk at Cutting Youth Program

Californians voted overwhelmingly last month against a state proposition that would have diverted childhood development funding to help balance the state’s $42...

A Campy Promotion

Watch the “Because of Camp” PSA. Expect to see this and other images on TV and the Web, as part of two...

Newsmakers for June 2009

  Laura Robinson Government The “Yes We Can” attitude at President Obama’s Justice Department must have resonated with Laurie Robinson. The Clinton-era...

Obama Budget Offers Growth and Cuts

The warm hope that President Barack Obama would reinvigorate youth programs with new federal funding has met the cold reality of the...

A Funding Offer Wins Praise, but Few Takers

  From a policy perspective, nary anyone says a bad word about the guardianship assistance payments (GAPs) established by the Fostering Connections...