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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Gay Ban Might Get Scouts Evicted

How about this for a rent hike: 20 million percent? That’s what the Boy Scout Council that oversees Philadelphia must pay if...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

States High on Harsh Anti-Meth Ads

A graphic anti-methamphetamine ad campaign that features gory depictions of drug-addled teens, pocked with lesions and freebasing meth – is getting credit...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Society for Research in Child Development

Lonnie Sherrod, Executive Director Office for Policy and Communications moves to: 1313 L Street NW, Suite 140 Washington, DC 20005

Opinion

Gadfly Creates Loud Buzz

Richard Wexler is a little like The Flash, the iconic comic book hero who moves at lightning speed. He swiftly takes on...

Outdoor Therapy Outfits Get Beat Up

San Antonio – Under the broiling Texas summer sun one day in June, a man known as both pastor and commandant tied...

► Newsmakers

Newsmakers for November 2007

Nonprofits A key grant-making staffer at the Princeton, N.J.-based Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) will lead one of the country’s leading mentoring...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Press Watch for November 2007

Log on to these news organization’s websites and search for the headline through the site’s search or archive feature. Child Welfare Foster...

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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