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Play Therapy with Children in Crisis

Edited by Nancy Boyd Webb Guilford 489 pages. $48. Seven years ago, Webb published Play Therapy, which was widely adopted among clinicians...

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Can We Talk about Race?

Beverly Daniel Tatum Beacon Press 160 pages. $22.95. Tatum, president of historically black Spelman College in Atlanta, presents four essays that get...

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Youth Development Worker Competency Training Modules

National Collaboration for Youth 29 pages each. Free online. The collaboration has drawn up training modules for three of the 10 core...

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Urban Youth Workers Institute

http://www.uywi.org With a sleek layout and high-tech features, the institute’s site targets those interested in training and resources about youth ministry. Podcasts...

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FedSpending.org

http://www.federalspending.org Created by federal watchdog group OMB Watch, the site offers a free, searchable database of more than $14 trillion in government...

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Center for Child Well-being

http://www.childwellbeing.org Basic parenting tips and detailed answers to common questions are just two of the resources this site offers to adults raising...

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Adobe Youth Voices

http://www.wkcd.org/specialcollections/adobeyouthvoices/index.html This joint project of What Kids Can Do and Adobe Systems showcases multimedia productions by youth and youth media educators around...

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Project Safe Childhood

http://www.projectsafechildhood.gov This U.S. Department of Justice site provides information for federal, state and local law enforcement officials on investigating and prosecuting Internet...

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YouthNetwork.org

http://www.youthnetwork.org This streamlined search engine of nearly 1.2 million community resources for youth around the country helps users find local youth programs...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Grants Awarded for Octoober 2007

Surdna FoundationNew York, N.Y.(212) 557-0010http://www.surdna.org • Artists for Humanity, Boston, $250,000 for a youth arts program. • Baltimore School for the Arts,...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Higher Education For Ex-Foster Youth

President Bush last month signed a law that, among other provisions, will help former foster youth get money for college. The College...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

CNCS Requires New Background Checks

Call it service with a smile – and a background check. A new final rule issued by the Corporation for National and...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Laws Loosen for Consensual Sex

Four states recently adjusted their sex offense statutes to allow more leeway for youth who get in legal trouble resulting from consensual...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Youth Court Group Comes to Order

After a two-year battle with paperwork and other administrative details, the National Association of Youth Courts has set up shop as a...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Youth Killed in Restraint

Police in Tennessee say a teenager’s death at a center for mentally and developmentally disabled youth was a homicide at the hands...

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On the Move for October 2007

Docs for Tots Toni Smith, Deputy Exec. Director Moves to: 1000 Vermont Ave. NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20005 (202) 589-0103 Alfonso...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

The Jena Six and the Big Picture

The case of the “Jena Six” in Louisiana has drawn public attention to the disproportionate treatment of racial groups in juvenile justice...

Stunting SCHIP’s Growth

While the fight over whether to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) has focused on congressional legislation and presidential vetoes,...

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Help for When College Years Are Not So Carefree

Chicago Tribune Students with average or above-average intelligence who benefit from special-education programs usually find that their learning and support services come...

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