Youth Today
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Climbing Career Ladders: More youth workers forge their own paths, but payoff remains iffy
Manchester, N.H.—Until recently, youth-services coordinator Hector Fabio Urrea worked two jobs to make ends meet. For youth workers, that part of...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Climbing Career Ladders: In England, youth work education pays
Birkenhead, England—From an American point of view, Kai Wooder seems an unlikely candidate to get a degree in youth work. She...
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News
Detecting Danger: Can We do Better?
For child welfare and juvenile justice workers, it can literally be a matter of life and death: predicting which new cases are...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
10-Year Sentence for Adoption Fraud
By Grace Lavigne A woman who used fake identities to adopt 11 disabled children – whom authorities say she kept locked in...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Michigan Settles Foster Care Lawsuit
Michigan has agreed to implement major reforms in its foster care system under a settlement reached in a class-action lawsuit. The...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
How Not to Run Youth Employment
When it comes to expanding a youth employment program, you can have too much of a good thing. That’s what happened in...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Youth Today Launches JJ Today
You can now get the latest juvenile justice news and grant announcements delivered to your inbox, or view them online anytime....
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Michigan Let Criminals Provide Day Care
Hundreds of convicts – including sexual predators, child abusers and even a murderer – were allowed to work as child day...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Children of Prisoners Vouchers Fall Short
A voucher program designed to expand the availability of mentors for children whose parents are incarcerated is bogged down by in-fighting...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Teams Selected to Improve Assessments
By Grace Lavigne The American Humane Association and Casey Family Programs have chosen 21 teams from public and tribal child welfare...
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News
Law Fosters Higher Ed Opportunities
Buried in a 431-page reauthorization measure for higher education are a few small but potentially important provisions that should boost supportive...
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News
National Service Hits the Campaign Trail
More than 500 leaders and activists plan to gather in New York this month to launch what they hope becomes a...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
A Push for Investments Instead of Grants
A new financial entity – part nonprofit, part for-profit – is being pushed as the next great way to increase the...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for September 2008
Nonprofits Judge Patricia A. Macías, presiding judge of the 388th Family District Court in El Paso, Texas, has been elected president...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
At Busy South Bronx Pool, Unlikely Volunteers
The New York Times Crotona Pool in the Bronx has become a new summer hotspot as neighborhood violence has waned, thanks...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Homeless Shelter Focuses on Youths
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Being homeless is hard enough, but being a homeless teenager adds even more problems to an already tumultuous...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Fairfax Fed Up With Lunch-Line Thieves
The Washington Post Video cameras will monitor Fairfax County, Va., high school cafeterias for the first time this fall, to keep...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Number of Teen Shooting Deaths Drops to Decade Low
The Sacramento Bee The number of Sacramento County teens who have been killed in 2008 is the lowest in at least...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Too Few Low-Income College Students?
The Christian Science Monitor Getting a college education in the United States requires more than just good grades and hard work;...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Graffiti Vandals Turn Violent in LA
The Associated Press/USA TODAY In Los Angeles, graffiti taggers are turning violent when confronted by members of the community, and three...
