Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
School-Based Mentoring: Does it Make the Grade?
Teamwork: Big brother Tim Bagley plays with his little, Raymond, at Shaw Middle School in Philadelphia, as part of school-based mentoring program....
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Pork Comes Flying Back
Once again, writing to your local congressman literally pays off. After being all but banned in a purported wave of concern over...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
CWLA Slashes Staff in Overhaul
Christine James-Brown has made her first extremely painful decision since taking over the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) in April: cutting...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
New Center Focuses on Education
Casey Family Programs and the American Bar Association (ABA) Center on Children and the Law have launched a national clearinghouse on the...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Kids Grade Adults as Average
Adults received their customary mediocre grade – a “C” – from youths in the latest Uhlich Report Card, which asks 1,000 teens...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Youth Soccer Avoids Death, Pays Taxes
In a landmark case for youth sports programs, the Internal Revenue Service has settled its case about whether a league’s paid coaches...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Bill Would Forgive College Loans
Congress wants to forgive some college loans for youth workers, but it’s unclear whether President Bush will go along. The House and...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
A Surprise Donation from the Grave
KidsPeace, a national organization that helps children in crisis, received a surprising gift in June: a $3.2 million donation from a Civil...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Free Snacks
It’s official: After-school centers located in low-income areas can be paid back for providing healthful snacks to youth as old as 18....
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Shooting at Peace Games
A community group in Ohio had a nightmare come true when a youth event that it organized in August to promote nonviolence...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Shhh: America’s Promise Drops ‘Youth’
Forgoing the fanfare most organizations attempt to muster around a name change, America’s Promise – The Alliance for Youth has quietly condensed...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Youth on the Agenda in Congress
Youth issues are a hot topic in Congress, but whether that leads to legislative progress remains to be seen. After several youth-related...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
On the Move for September 2007
The After School Corp. Lucy Friedman, president Moves to: 1440 Broadway, 16th Floor New York, NY 10018 (646) 943-8700 Generations United...
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Providers Chafed by Eight-Year Delay
After waiting several years for a system to collect data on youth aging out of foster care, U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.)...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for September 2007
Feds President Bush has nominated Diane Rath to take over for the departed Wade Horn as assistant secretary for family support at...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Re-Militarized Zone
New York Press Some students are angered by what they see as increasingly aggressive recruitment by the military in New York City’s...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Teaching the Trades
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Gov. Jim Doyle (D) plans to double the budget for Wisconsin’s Youth Apprenticeship program to $2.2 million a year, which...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Religious Bonds Divide Some Parents, Kids
USA Today A hot trend for some of today’s youth is not a pair of jeans or a hairstyle; it’s piety. Clergy...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
How Can You Distinguish a Budding Pedophile From a Kid With Real Boundary Problems?
The New York Times For juvenile justice officials, the line between a burgeoning pedophile and a kid with boundary problems is often...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The ‘Atypical’ Dilemma
St. Petersburg Times Doctors are prescribing strong anti-psychotic drugs for thousands of children in Florida, even though the FDA has approved those...
