Youth Today

A Plus for Teens Faces Subtraction

Watch the original Youth Today video, “Hard Times at Sunnyside High” Tucson, Ariz.—Every day after school during the past year, 17-year-old Veronica...

How To … Create Maps to Help Kids and Youth Workers

  Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are all the rage right now, and many youth-serving organizations have embraced the technology to improve their...

Niles Teen Center

  Niles, Ill.(847) 375-8949http://www.NilesTeenCenter.org Artful use of time: Ceramics projects are among the activities at the Niles Teen Center. Photo: Niles Teen...

Tsering D. Alleyne: Youth Caseworker

  Tsering D. Alleyne Redwood Community Action Agency, Youth Services BureauHumboldt County, Calif.(707) 923-1147http://www.rcaa.org Age: 23 Salary: $23,160. My Organization: The Youth...

Awards for June 2009

Justice Specialist: Sandy Rempe (second from left), juvenile justice program manager for the Missouri Department of Public Safety (DPS), was named juvenile...

Taking Risks for Transition-Age Youth

  On any given day, scores of young people with limited individual and social capital are simultaneously struggling to exit some systems...

Service Movement Creates Opportunities for After-School

  What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility: a recognition on the part of every American that...

How to Thrive In Hard Times

These are the best of times for youth-serving nonprofits – and the worst. On one hand, we’ve never had more public awareness...

Sex Education

  I found several points to disagree with [Kay S.] Hymowitz in her column in the May issue (“Don’t Blame Abstinence Ed”),...

Finally Proud to be Korean

Race Shouldn’t Matter

Britawnya Craft, 18LA Youth, Los Angeles At my school, the majority of the black students hang out at the table at the...

School-Based Mentoring Needs a Friend

School-based mentoring – a cornerstone of the rapidly expanding mentoring field – took a big hit last month when President Obama announced...

Ceremonial Violence: A Psychological Explanation of School Shootings

  Jonathan FastThe Overlook Press333 pages. $25.95, $15.95 paperback. School rampage (SR) shootings are “acts of terrorism” that “crush the spirit of...

Scholarships 101: The Real-World Guide to Getting Cash for College

  Kimberly StezalaAMACOM Books244 pages. $17.95 paperback. “Scholarship Lady” Kimberly Stezala uses warm encouragement and insider expertise to coach students in how...

Preventing and Reducing Juvenile Delinquency: A Comprehensive Framework, 2nd Edition

  James C. HowellSAGE Publications377 pages. $44.95 paperback. Updating the 2003 edition, juvenile justice expert James C. (“Buddy”) Howell proposes reforms for...

Treating Childhood Behavioral and Emotional Problems: A Step-by-Step, Evidence-Based Approach

Edited by Andrew R. EisenThe Guilford Press427 pages. $50 hardcover or e-book. In this first clinician training manual to be organized according...

Making Critical Decisions: A Practical Guide for Nonprofit Organizations

  Roberta M. Snow, Paul H. PhillipsJossey-Bass/Wiley237 pages. $40 hardcover or e-book. For nonprofits facing “novel and critical situations,” two consultants borrow...

Program Assessment Tool Goes Free Online

  A well-vetted assessment tool used by hundreds of after-school programs across New York state to examine the quality of their services...

Youth Group Games

http://www.jubed.com/youth_ministry Youth Group Games is a Christian youth site that offers ideas for activities and games that can benefit a variety of...