Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
National Sexuality Research Center
http://nsrc.sfsu.edu/ Offering a comprehensive collection of the latest information and research on sexual health, education and reproductive rights, this site targets...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Children’s Aid Society
http://www.childrensaidsociety.org Children’s Aid, which provides a variety of services to New York City’s at-risk youth, has launched a new series of...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Peace Corps Library
http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=library The library offers easy-to-read resources originally intended for use by Peace Corps volunteers, but useful to any community workers, particularly...
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Grants
Grants Awarded for December 2008-January 2009
The Bill and Melinda Gates FoundationSeattle(206) 709-3100http://www.gatesfoundation.org • Lakeside School, Seattle, $4 million for general operating support. • Washington Alliance for...
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Opinion
How We Combat DMC
Mark Soler Some additional information about DMC is necessary to avoid error and misunderstanding. First, there are actually three goals in reducing...
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Opinion
Responses to YT’s Coverage of JDAI and Models for Change
Some people had strong reactions to “A Tale of Two Reforms,” John Kelly’s cover package last month about the Annie E....
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Opinion
MFC Boosts Aftercare
The article on Models for Change in Pennsylvania regrettably fails to capture the nature and substance of the initiative. Pennsylvania’s juvenile...
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Opinion
How MacArthur Builds Reform
Ned Loughran The story about Models for Change failed to capture how MFC is building a successful and sustainable reform effort in...
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Opinion
Sensationalism
I was disappointed to read John Kelly’s “Tale of Two Reforms.” I am the recently retired chief probation officer in Santa Cruz...
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Opinion
Progress in St. Paul
This letter is in response to statements in last month’s DMC story that questioned whether work done by the W. Haywood Burns...
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Opinion
Peer Mentoring
The following Web post was about the November story, “Peer-to-Peer Pressures: Study shows the limits of using high schoolers as mentors,” regarding...
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Opinion
Reporting Abuse
Thank you for publishing the article, “Overcoming Volunteers’ Reluctance to Report Abuse” [November]. To clarify the discussion of our work in the...
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Correction to November 2008’s “Tale of Two Reforms”
Correction Because of an editing error, a sidebar story to November’s “Tale of Two Reforms,” titled “Discontent on DMC,” referred to a...
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► Reports
Progress Report on the Shared Youth Vision Partnership
The Shared Vision Partnership provides no money but helps states figure out how to maximize resources going toward youth populations. For example,...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
AMI, Other Alternatives to Lockup Hit Hard by State Budget Cuts
While hopes are high in Washington that the federal government will soon make inspired investments in juvenile justice, the state dollars that...
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Number of Young Homicide Victims Rises
Young black males are being murdered, and being arrested for murder, at a far higher rate than they were in 2002, according...
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News
Madoff Scam Claims JEHT, Picower Foundations
Youth work lost two major benefactors to the apparent Ponzi scheme created by now infamous financial manager Bernard Madoff. New York-based grant...
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► Reports
Family Rejection as a Predictor of Negative Health Outcomes in White and Latino Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young Adults
César E. Chávez Institute, San Francisco State University/University of Utah Rejection by their families translates into significantly poorer physical and mental health...
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News
Big Brothers Big Sisters Head to Leave This Summer
Judy Vredenburgh, president and CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) has announced she will leave the post this summer after a...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
$5 Million to Help Reduce Violence in Five Boston Neighborhoods
The Boston Foundation has announced a $5 million commitment to StreetSafe Boston – a public-private partnership designed to decrease violent crime by...
