Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
I Will Speak Up for Myself: Your Legal Rights in Shelters, STAR Homes, Group Homes or Residential Treatment Centers
Stacey Violante Cote, et al. Center for Children’s Advocacy 43 pages, plus 10-minute DVD. Book and DVD package, $20; book alone, $10;...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Community Services Locator: An Online Directory for Finding Community Services for Children and Families
Susan Brune Lorenzo and Rochelle Mayer Maternal and Child Health Library Free. This new online directory makes it easy to find local...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Passages: One Young Man’s Outward Bound Journey
Sam LevineSelf-Published161 pages. $24.99. As one of 10 boys embarking on a 12-day Outward Bound kayaking expedition in the Boston Harbor Islands,...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Camps 2009–2010
Resources for Children with Special Needs$25, plus $8 postage and handling. This directory of summer camps and other activities for children, teens...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Swimming with Crocodiles: The Culture of Extreme Drinking
Edited by Marjana Martinic and Fiona Measham Routledge280 pages. $54. A drunk young man in South Africa feels so invincible that he...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Best of Building Assets Together: Favorite Group Activities That Help Youth Succeed
Jolene L. RoehlkepartainSearch Institute Press156 pages, plus CD-ROM. $34.95. Combining popular exercises from two previous editions with 35 new ideas, this handbook...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Amplify Your Voice
http://www.amplifyyourvoice.org Sexual and reproductive health policy is the main focus of this site, which features blogs, social networking and advocacy campaigns by...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Foster Care Central
http://www.fostercarecentral.org A social networking tool primarily for foster parents and social workers, this site has nearly 1,000 members and includes blogs, discussion...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Student Youth Travel Association Youth Foundation
http://www.sytayouthfoundation.org Designed to promote educational travel experiences for young people, the site offers scholarship and grant programs for individual students, school classes...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Children’s Budget
http://www.childrensbudget.org First Focus’ new web resource provides in-depth statistical information regarding federal spending on children. First Focus is a national bipartisan children’s...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Smart Chart 3.0
http://www.smartchart.org This updated version of the original Smart Chart is a free tool designed to help nonprofits manage their internal and external...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Who Mentored You?
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/chc/wmy2008 This interactive site sponsored by the Harvard Mentoring Project showcases testimonials by a host of luminaries such as Oprah and former...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
YouthActionNet
http://www.youthactionnet.org Created by the International Youth Foundation, YouthActionNet provides information, social networking and discussion forums for young social entrepreneurs around the world....
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Grants
Grants Awarded for March 2009
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Flint, Mich. (810) 238-5651 http://www.mott.org • YouthBuild USA, Somerville, Mass., $200,000 to provide students with opportunities for...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Programs Granted a New Day
The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation’s New Day for Learning, which seeks to help communities improve existing plans to improve educational achievement through...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
The Stimulus and Youth
Below is a look at how the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will affect funding for youth services in federal...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Youth Services in States of Pain
With the national economic crisis deepening, youth programs and youth service advocates are scrambling to save funding as they cut their current...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Sucked into the Wrong Crowd
Author’s name withheld Birmingham High School Her name was Gabby. She was my closest friend. It was she who introduced me to...
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Weekly Notes: Earmarks Abound; JJ System Deficit Spends in South Carolina; Texas Reform’s Unintended Consequence; and More
***JJ Today mentioned earlier this week that the 2009 appropriations for juvenile justice spending were out, and since then we’ve had a...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Amanda Gilman
Project Assistant Amanda Gilman Mayor’s OfficeSan Bernardino, Calif.(909) 384-5133 http://www.ci.san-bernardino.ca.us (see link to Operation Phoenix) Age: 24 Salary: $0. Gilman’s job fulfills...
