Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
As Teenagers Leave Group Homes, a Challenge Placing Those Who Remain
New York Times Eight months into New York City’s initiative to move hundreds of troubled youth from group homes into foster care,...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
To Keep Kids Safe, Chicagoans Join the Walk to School
The Christian Science Monitor After a shooting in March left one student dead and others fearing retaliation, West Side Chicago parents and...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Safety Nets Stretched Thin
The Boston Globe Nonprofit organizations, particularly charities and social service groups, are facing financial strains as the economy slows, jeopardizing the safety...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Internet Gives Graffiti Vandals a Global Audience
Los Angeles Times Having their “tags,” or graffiti signatures, viewed by a few thousand commuters each day apparently isn’t enough exposure for...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Teens Get More Exposure Than They Intended
San Francisco Chronicle Some youths are using their cell phone cameras to send nude photographs of themselves to boyfriends or girlfriends, occasionally...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
School Buses with Old, Worn Tires Transporting Children
ABC-15 KNXV-TV Phoenix Tires are the only thing connecting vehicles to the road, and when they get old, they can be a...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Teaching Youths to Invest in Themselves
The Extra Mile: Foster youth Halston Green (right) is in the financial savings and education program at the Mile High United Way...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Youth Golf: On the Green and in the Rough
Shippen: African-American golfer who played in first U.S. Open, in 1895. Correction: This version corrects two errors from the printed article: Andrew...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
College Mentors for Kids
Indianapolis, Ind.(317) 921-1798http://www.collegementors.org Objective: Get disadvantaged youth excited about higher education and increase their opportunities to succeed. College Bound: Danae Beeler, a...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Robert Valencia
Robert Valencia Case ManagerNew Mexico Young Fathers ProjectSanta Fe, N.M.(505) 474-5435www.youngfathers.org Age: 19 Salary: $11 per hour. About the Program: The project...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Awards for August 2008
By Jim Richardson 2008 Youth Advocates of the Year C.J. Petersen, the national Youth Advocate of the Year for the Campaign for...
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Opinion
Wanted: Youth Work Principles in Schools
Seven students recently joined me for breakfast in a windowless conference room in Des Moines, Iowa, to talk about “the high school...
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Opinion
The End of Youth?
At a time when many foundations are supporting education reform and millions of philanthropic dollars are going to fund youth development programs,...
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Opinion
The Case Against Incentives
Last year, the administration of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a series of experimental initiatives whose intention was to lift...
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Opinion
Be Wary of Residential Care
The letter from Heidi Goldsmith in your June issue, advocating the use of residential centers [in child welfare], makes a number of...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Questioning My Faith
By Donny Lumpkins, 17YO!, San Francisco I was waiting for the 28 bus at Park Presidio, heading home to Daly City from...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
A World Away From Her
Kanwal Javaid, 18New Youth Connections, New York Leaving my grandmother in Pakistan was the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life....
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► Reports
After-School Programs and Academics: Implications for Policy, Practice, and Research
Should after-school programs focus on academics, even to the point of becoming an extension of the regular school day? That’s the question...
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Social Citizens
The CASE Foundation Between 1989 and 2005 teenage volunteerism more than doubled, and now members of the Millennial Generation are using new...
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Schools that Work
Center for an Urban Future Most people believe that attending a normal high school is the only way to get to college,...
