Youth Today
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Grants
Grants Awarded for April 2009
AT&T Corp.San Antonio(212) 387-6555http://www.att.com • Hispanic Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C., $25,000 for a mentor program that connects Hispanic high school students with...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
The Federal Youth Budget: 2009
Click image for .pdf chart This chart outlines recently enacted fiscal 2009 spending levels for youth programs – everything from child nutrition...
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Helping Former Foster Youth Graduate from College: Campus Support Programs in California and Washington State
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago This report explores campus-based support programs that seek to remove barriers that former foster youths...
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America’s Youngest Outcasts: State Report Card on Child Homelessness
National Center on Family Homelessness In the midst of an economic crisis that is forcing adults to deal with job layoffs and...
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Youth Media Reporter 2008
Academy for Educational Development The entire year of this journal's editions covering the youth media field is now available in one volume,...
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Grandparenting and Adolescent Adjustment in Two-Parent Biological, Lone-Parent, and Step-Families
Multiple international researchers Adolescents who spend time with their grandparents have better social skills and exhibit fewer behavior problems, according to this...
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Change it Up: What Girls Say About Redefining Leadership
Girl Scout Research Institute The findings of this national study provide a nuanced view of girls' attitudes, aspirations and experiences regarding leadership....
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News
National Service Set to Grow
Less than three months after he took office, and seven months after a large New York send-off, much of President Barack Obama’s...
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Nonprofit Survey
Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) Many of America's nonprofits - including "safety-net" organizations that offer basic and social services to at-risk populations -...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Watch: Foster Care in America
Video About Foster Care in America
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Weekly Notes: Drug Court Funding; JJDPA Reintroduced; Missouri Model Profiled in NYT; and More
Apologies for the absence of Weekly Notes for the past couple weeks. JJ Today has been hard at work on a story...
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New Contender for OJJDP Job?
Another contender for the top spot at the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) has emerged of late: Child Welfare...
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News
Teen Births Rise Again – What Does it Mean?
The federal government’s vital statistics records show a second year of increase in the birth rate among U.S. teens from 2006 to...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Labor Releases Rules to Get Stimulus Funds
Guidelines released today for spending the $1.2 billion provided by the federal stimulus bill for summer job programs spell out the jobs,...
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News
Obama Creates White House Council on Woman and Girls
Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor to President Obama and chair of the new White House Counsel on Women and Girls. Saying that...
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OJJDP to Take Bids on Stimulus Mentoring Money (Updated)
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is currently developing a solicitation for proposals to spend local mentoring funds carved out...
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OJJDP to Take Bids on Stimulus Mentoring Money
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is currently developing a solicitation for proposals to spend local mentoring funds carved out...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
BGCA Struggling
Late last month, AS Today had a chance to speak with Kevin McCartney, who heads government relations for the Atlanta-based Boys &...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
How-to on Getting After-School Money out of the Stimulus
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signed by President Obama last month includes lots of money for states to spend on education...
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MENTOR Names New CEO
Alberto Gonzales might be hard up for a job, but not every Bush 43 guy is having the same trouble. MENTOR, a...
