Youth Today
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Service in the Summer
Seeking to combine the potentially idle summer months with youth volunteerism, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) is appealing to...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Dropout Summit Produces a Plan
More than 100 organizations representing foundations, government policymakers and education and community leaders endorsed a 10-point plan last month to reduce the...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Teacher Drops Out
Teacher Magazine – distributed for the past 17 years to every public school in the country – ceased publication with its May/June...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
New Way to Find Earmark Winners
For the first time ever, the federal government has put an earmark databased online. In April, the U.S. Office of Management and...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Immaturity Can Mean No Trial
A three-judge appeals panel in Sacramento ruled last month that an 11-year-old candy thief, and all those like him, are too immature...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Infection Kills Youth, Closes Program
Several youths have died at wilderness and boot camps in recent years because of alleged abuse, but a Colorado program was shut...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
New Group to Ease Re-entry
A private California foundation has given its last grant to a collaboration of well-known nonprofits to smooth the re-entry of juvenile offenders...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Immigration Raids Protested
While most of the child welfare field stays mum about the havoc sometimes created for youth and youth-serving agencies when adults are...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Guidelines for Sex Offender Registries
The U.S. Department of Justice has submitted its proposed National Guidelines for Sex Offender Registration and Notification, as required by the Adam...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
De-Constructing Teenagers?
Teens who land high-paying summer construction jobs may feel lucky to earn, on average, $20 an hour, but the National Institute for...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Sweating Summer Jobs
Once again, the employment prospects for teens this summer look gloomy. If the forecast of Andrew Sum and Joseph McLaughlin of Northeastern...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Missing Kids Cards Gone
Don’t go searching for those "Have You Seen Me?" cards in your mail any more. ADCO, the direct mail company that sends...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for June 2007
Nonprofits Eckerd Youth Alternatives, a major provider of services to troubled youth, recently filled two of its top spots. David Dennis was...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Surviving Without Uncle Sam’s Money
Finding a pot of $30 million in federal grants for your specialty in youth work should make you feel pretty good. But...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Creating Entrepreneurs
When it comes to teaching youth how to make a living, the lesson almost always boils down to the same formula: Work...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Foster Teens Find Help in State Care
Daytona Beach News-Journal Although they’ve often been removed from the places, friends, teachers and coping mechanisms that helped them weather abusive situations...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Me Lonely? Not Now, Thanks to the ‘Family Finding’ Search
The San Francisco Chronicle A combination of high-tech Internet searches and old-fashioned detective work is helping 22 California counties locate the extended...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
State’s Youth Prisons Mired in Hopelessness (Part 1) A New Approach to Help Young Offenders (Part 2)
The San Francisco Chronicle It’s well-documented: Young offenders in California’s juvenile justice system face frequent violence and receive little rehabilitation. Some advocates...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Children of Meth Abusers Have Little Access to Help
The State Journal-Register (Springfield, Ill.) Most methamphetamine users and “cookers” are of prime childbearing age – often raising small children in homes...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Deportations Strand Young U.S. Citizens
The Chicago Tribune Since the deportation of their mother last year as a “criminal alien,” 22-year-old University of Texas senior Luissana Santibanez...
