Youth Today
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Fourth-Grade Performance Can Predict College Enrollment, Future Income
You can predict whether fourth-grade students are going to graduate from high school or college and how much money they will make...
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News
Supreme Court to Hear Juvenile Life-Without-Parole Cases
The Supreme Court agreed today to hear two Florida cases that challenge the legality of sentencing minors to life in prison without...
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Will the Push to College Lower Standards?
Could efforts to increase college graduation and retention rates “backfire” by leading colleges to lower standards? Such is one of the main...
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► Reports
The Case for School-Based Integration of Services: Changing the Ways Students, Families and Communities Engage with Their Schools
Public Private Ventures Schools should be used for so much more than school. That’s the message of this report outlining the benefits...
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Children in Poverty: Trends, Consequences and Policy Options
Child Trends Nearly 20 percent of American children and youth are living in poverty - a percentage that has been steadily increasing...
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Preparing Effective Contracts in Privatized Child Welfare Systems
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services This new guide underscores the reliance...
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News
‘To Hell and Back’
The Famous Farm: The serene flagship campus of Berkshire Farm Center and Services for Youth. Photo: John Krahm/Berkshire Farm Center Canaan, N.Y.—Jim Gaudette...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Mayors Pledge to Focus on Youth
It’s too soon to tell if it will amount to anything more than a news release, but here is what the...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Obamas Donate to Youth Groups
Barack and Michelle Obama donated $75,500 last year to 13 organizations that work with youth, according to tax returns released last...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
How to Reach Uninsured Youths: Cut the Paperwork
In an effort to draw uninsured children into its health insurance program for the poor, New Jersey has taken an ax...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
OJJDP Grants Get Claimed Before You Apply
The U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention last month issued a solicitation for field-initiated demonstration programs, which at first...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Tales from the Field: How the recession is affecting youth services.
Washington—Here is one definition of serious trouble: A funder cuts your $400,000 grant to $185,000. That’s just one of the hits...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Tales from the Field: How the recession is affecting youth services.
New York—The Juilliard School, the famed performing arts conservatory, has demonstrated how publicity can pay off – literally – for cash-strapped...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Tales from the Field: How the recession is affecting youth services.
Palm Desert, Calif.—At the beginning of the year, Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Desert saw an influx of volunteer mentors,...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Tales from the Field: How the recession is affecting youth services.
Phoenix—Arizona’s Division of Children, Youth and Families has laid off 181 workers this year, including 159 Child Protective Services “specialists” (investigators...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Tales from the Field: How the recession is affecting youth services.
Philadelphia—A pilot program to help youths who have been literally struck by violence has been eliminated by budget cuts. The Pennsylvania...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Tales from the Field: How the recession is affecting youth services.
The federal stimulus package set aside $1.2 billion in funding for youth services, including summer job opportunities, for people under 24....
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News
Spreading Goodwill for Youth
Building youth work: The Goodwill agency in Tacoma, Wash., started a YouthBuild program, showing how Goodwill can partner with other groups....
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Camp Cope
New York YMCA camps pledge to raise more money for camper scholarships, and lower fees for low-income parents. The New York YMCA...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for May 2009
Pamela Wilcox NONPROFITS Camp Fire USA has a temporary new leader in Pamela Wilcox, who was appointed interim CEO to fill...
