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Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Youth Work’s Immigration Movement

By Ed Finkel The Boys & Girls Club of West Georgia, after witnessing a 30 percent increase in Latino participants in three...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Career Development Program

Murray, Utah(801) 284-4260www.bgcsv.org Objective: Instill a work ethic and career interest in youth by connecting them to community partners involved in...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Tom Coyne

Philadelphia(215) 262-1459www.sparkthewave.org Age: 27 Salary: $12,000 for 20 hours a week. About the Program: The nonprofit Spark the Wave (STW) partners with...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Awards for November 2007

Progressive Leadership Awards For: Leaders who are advancing the struggle for social, racial and economic justice. By: USActionWinners Include: Cheyenne Hughes, racial...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

UNICEF’s New Tricks Yield Treats

A costumed vampire reaches for the doorbell and squeals, “Trick-or-Treat!” In one hand he holds a candy bag; in the other, an...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Lifting the Abandoned Children of Katrina

New Orleans, La.—If you run a youth program in a poor community, you probably feel that you don’t have enough resources, that...

Opinion

Extending Learning: Will We Ever Get It Right?

I had a few hours to read, so I pulled out the folder into which I cram all the things that catch...

Opinion

Youth Development and the Creative Life

Beauty is the only thing that can save the world. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky Many policymakers seem to think that all good things...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Boys & Girls Clubs Get Whacked

The Capitol Hill-financed juggernaut that has been the Boys & Girls Clubs of America for over two decades has stalled in the...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Longing for an Identity: My Last Name Mystery

Natalie Kozakiewicz, 21REPRESENT, NEW YORK In December 2004, I went to my foster care agency to get copies of my parents’ death...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Longing for an Identity: Alone With My Questions

By Cynthia Orbes, 19REPRESENT, NEW YORK For years and years after my parents died, I kept myself from remembering them. Each Christmas,...

Research

Suicide Trends Among Youths and Young Adults 10-24 Years – United States, 1990-2004

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5635a2.htm The CDC rang lots of alarms last month in reporting that suicides by youth...

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The Long-Term Effects of After-School Programming on Educational Adjustment and Juvenile Crime: A Study of the LA’s BEST After-School Program

The Afterschool Alliance An evaluation of LA’s BEST – the largest after-school program in Los Angeles – finds that youth who were...

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Lifelong Readers: Driving Civic Engagement

Newspaper Association of America Youth who read newspapers are more likely to volunteer, vote and be engaged in civic activities as adults,...

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The Role of Religious and Social Organizations in the Lives of Disadvantaged Youth

Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government Using the National Survey of Families and Households, this paper examines whether participation in religious and...

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Investing in Children

Urban Institute/The New America Foundation/The Partnership for America’s Economic Success Federal investment in children is likely to decline over the next 10...

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