Youth Today
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Turmoil of the Month in Texas
Youth Today could almost run a monthly column about the Texas Youth Commission (TYC), the scandal-plagued network of 22 youth prisons that...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Advocates Seek to Reform JJDP Act
Federal juvenile justice reauthorization should for the first time encourage states to address conditions in youth jails and residential facilities, in light...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
U.S. Coordinates Youth Programs – Again?
Two years ago, President Bush signed a law passed by Congress to create a council that is supposed to connect federal agencies...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Tax Deductions for Volunteers
With the income tax deadline approaching next month, volunteer youth workers should know that they can take some tax deductions for their...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Ready by 21 Ready to Expand
The Forum for Youth Investment (FYI) launched a new effort last month to expand its Ready by 21 initiative. While more than...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
No Free Speech From Huckabee
YCLA recipient Stephen Ryan receives congratulations from Mike Huckabee. It’s not often that an awards ceremony for young people gets international attention....
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
New Focus on Smoking Among Gay Youth
Ohio has become the latest state to increase its focus on smoking by gay youth, whose smoking rate is about double that...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Giant Upset for Anti-Drug Ad?
Mixed Reviews: Some say the feds fumbled this ad featuring a drug dealer talking to parents; others disagree. How’s this for standing...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for March 2008
Jack Kresnak Nonprofits For 34 years, Jack Kresnak used journalistic objectivity to put a public face on the complexities of city...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Last Chance to Fight the President
Just weeks after Congress enacted a fiscal 2008 appropriations law that some youth advocates viewed as short-changing many kids’ programs, they were...
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News
The Downside of Upscale
First, the youth boxing club was in the Barragan family’s backyard. Next, it was in a two-car garage. And finally, and somewhat...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Teachers Take After-School Tutoring Closer to Kids’ Homes
The Columbus Dispatch Some elementary school teachers in Ohio are riding buses home with their students and tutoring them in their own...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Area Schools Set to Lose Millions under Medicaid Policy Changes
The Washington Post Educators nationwide are protesting a Bush administration rule that would cut about $3.6 billion over the next five years...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Child Protection: Through the Eyes of a Social Worker
Wisconsin State Journal As part of a series examining Wisconsin’s child protection system, the State Journal profiles social worker Lisa Hankes, who,...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Foster Kids Seek Sibling Contact
Rocky Mountain News Colorado foster children will be allowed to visit their brothers and sisters regularly under a bill that easily passed...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Learning to Lie
New York Times Magazine When a 3-year-old fibs, parents typically assume the child is too young to understand that lying is wrong...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Some States Reconsider Youth Sex Laws
Stateline States throughout the nation have stopped sentencing youths who are convicted of having consensual sex to the same punishments as sexual...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Congratulations for Reading a Winner
Jim Myers Silver, Case History American Society of Business Publication Editors, 2007 “Then La Paloma [Family Services] did something unusual: It turned...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Anti-Drug Programs Get Off Drugs
Dando Furenza a la Familia: Only one session focuses on substance abuse and its effect on the body. Every now and then...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Paul Robeson Academic International School of Excellence (PRAISE)
Stand-up Kids: The PRAISE Academy helps boys lift themselves. Johns Hopkins University Baltimore(410) 467-1605www.paulrobesonacademy.org Objective: Develop the academic and social skills of...
