Youth Today
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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...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Ingrid Dahl
Ingrid Dahl, Editor EditorYouth Media ReporterNew York(212) 367-4623www.youthmediareporter.org Age: 27 Salary: $44,000-49,000 About Youth Media Reporter: This website and professional journal serves...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Awards for March 2008
CWLA National Conference Awards For: Individuals who have worked to improve the lives of children and families. By: Child Welfare League of...
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Opinion
Youth Development and the Common Good
Nothing rankles me more than poverty and our American tradition of ignoring it. For kids, poverty is the ultimate risk factor. While...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Superintendents of Learning
Superintendents rock! I’ve never started a column like this before, certainly not one about school administrators – the people with whom youth...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Teens at Work: My First Job
VOX, Atlanta When I turned 15, it seemed like everyone my age had money – except me. On Mondays at school, I...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Teens at Work: Paycheck for a Cause
New Youth Connections, New York I first learned the distinction between a Democrat and a Republican in second grade, when my teacher...
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Advancing Achievement: Findings from an Independent Evaluation of a Major After-School Initiative
Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) Several publications spun off from P/PV’s recent evaluation of Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) – an eight-year,...
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Federal Tax Benefits: Foster, Adoptive Parents and Kinship Caregivers
National Foster Parent Association (NFPA) According to the NFPA, “neither the Internal Revenue Service nor commercial tax manuals offer information on unique...
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A National Service Agenda for the Next Decade
Center for American Progress This report, produced to shore up support for service programs, says they are effectively addressing a new array...
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America’s Youth at 20: School Enrollment, Training, and Employment Transitions Between Ages 19 and 20
U.S. Department of Labor Twenty-year-old females are 20 percent more likely to be enrolled in college than are their male counterparts, says...
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The Collapse of the National Teen Job Market and the Case for an Immediate Youth Jobs Creation Program
Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University Employment rates for 16- to 19-year-olds have been declining or stagnant since 1989, and the...
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Youthful Offender Project
YouthBuild USA This report on YouthBuild’s Youthful Offender Project stresses the need for re-entry programs to prevent recidivism. Part of the U.S....
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Ten Key Findings from Responsible Fatherhood Initiatives
The Urban Institute This report examines the results of five programs initiated from the 1990s through 2000 to help low-income noncustodial fathers...
