Youth Today

Hot Issues, Cool Choices: Facing Bullies, Peer Pressure, Popularity, and Put-Downs

Sandra McLeod HumphreyPrometheus Books133 pages. $13.95. In fictional Emerson Elementary School, 26 students (mostly fifth-graders) confess how it feels to be victims...

Teen Success! Ideas to Move Your Mind, 2nd edition

Beatrice J. ElyéGreat Potential Press225 pages. $16.95. In contrast to Peterson’s Essential Guide for group facilitators (elsewhere on this page), this book...

The Essential Guide to Talking with Gifted Teens

Jean Sunde PetersonFree Spirit Publishing282 pages. $39.95. This outstanding handbook offers everything a facilitator needs to conduct discussion groups with gifted teens...

The Thought That Counts: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager’s Experience with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Jared Douglas Kant, Martin Franklin, Linda Wasmer AndrewsOxford University Press, with the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands and the Annenberg Public Policy...

Chasing the High: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager’s Experience with Substance Abuse

Kyle Keegan, Howard Moss, Beryl Lieff BenderlyOxford University Press, with the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands and the Annenberg Public Policy Center...

The Center for After-School Excellence

www.afterschoolexcellence.org Launched last fall by The After School Corporation (TASC), the site provides up-to-date information on New York-based certificate programs, continuing education...

Social Programs That Work

www.evidencebasedprograms.org Here the scientists who make up the nonprofit Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy summarize the findings of well-designed randomized control trials that...

Kick Butts Day 2008

www.kickbuttsday.org The next Kick Butts Day (KBD) – a national day of anti-tobacco activism – will be April 2. This site helps...

NIDA Networking Project

http://nnp.drugabuse.gov The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) launched this site to facilitate information- sharing and collaboration among substance abuse researchers, practitioners...

Bullying Canada

  www.bullyingcanada.ca Created by Canadian high school students, this anti-bullying site offers tips and advice for bystanders, victims and perpetrators. It provides...

Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity

www.spotlightonpoverty.org This foundation-sponsored initiative seeks to focus public attention on poverty issues during the presidential campaign and to “encourage candidates to discuss...

Grants Awarded for February 2008

  The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Menlo Park, Calif.(650) 234-4500www.hewlett.org • Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, Washington, $270,000 for engaging law...

New Grants to Stabilize Nonprofits

  The plan doesn’t have a catchy name, but the New York-based Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF) hopes that a new “Growth...

Newsmakers for February 2008

Government Emily DeRocco left her post at the U.S. Department of Labor in January. DeRocco was the assistant secretary in charge of...

Hack at Juvenile Justice

The following is a response to the December story, “For Juvenile Justice, a Panel of One,” about grant awards by the U.S....

Safety in Numbers

Street Outreach Goes Suburban

Minneapolis—When outreach worker Amanda Danielson sets out to connect with homeless and runaway youth, she does not walk into the supply room...

Fire Destroys Historic Home

A fire allegedly set by a resident last month destroyed a cottage at a Georgia home that was created for children orphaned...

Adult Time Raises Youth Crime

Trying juveniles as adults and housing them in adult prisons is “counterproductive” – leading to higher and often more violent recidivism rates...

New Tool to Help Improve Staffing

The nonprofit Cornerstones for Kids (C4K) has launched an online resource to offer hands-on tools to help human services agencies address some...