Youth Today
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Opinion
Youth Facts vs. Writer’s Fiction
In his writings for Youth Today and other media outlets, Mike Males has taken on a laudable mission: combating erroneous stereotypes of...
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Opinion
Agencies Worth Saving
Don Mathis, CEOCommunity Action PartnershipWashington, D.C. Thank you for John Kelly’s "Youth Work Snapshot" on the TRI-CAP Teen Wellness Centers in Jasper,...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
This Just In: Good Help is Hard to Find
"Good help is so hard to find these days."– Jafar, in "The Return of Jafar" Let’s admit right off the bat that...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Tobacco Sales Down
Sales of tobacco to underage youth hit an all-time low last year, according to data released last month by the U.S. Substance...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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► 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
