Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Child Welfare Leagueof America
Christine James-Brown, CEO Moves to: 2345 Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA 22202-4801 (703) 412-2400, http://www.cwla.org Peggy Sanchez Mills, CEO Moves to: 1220 19th...
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News
ICE’d Out
Crackdowns on Illegal Immigrants: Administrative arrests by fiscal year As federal immigration authorities raided a New Bedford, Mass., manufacturing plant in March,...
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News
Loss of Faith
Strickland: New governor examines Ohio’s faith-based operations. Photo: Office of the Governor of Ohio To get a hint of how the nation’s...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for May 2007
Horn Government Wade Horn stepped down last month as head of the U.S. Administration for Children and Families (ACF), and it’s...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Breaking the Cycle
The Spokesman Review (Spokane, Wash.) Studies show that about one in four childhood victims of abuse are likely to abuse or neglect...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
A Rocky Path Back to School
The Boston Globe Last summer, two outreach workers began trying to persuade the 1,660 students who dropped out of Boston’s public schools...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Losing Juvenile Jails Aids Justice, Some Say
The Times-Picayune (New Orleans) The floods that followed Hurricane Katrina wiped out all 132 beds at New Orleans’ two juvenile detention facilities....
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
American-Born Children of Illegal Immigrants Face Difficult Decision When Parents Deported
The San Diego Union-Tribune Many of the 18,000 adults deported since June under an initiative of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Churches Turning to a Ministry of ‘Fear’
The Star-Ledger (Newark, N.J.) “Fear Factor”-style youth ministry events, in which teens are challenged to consume stomach-churning items or perform gross, messy...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Gay Youth Storm U.S. State Capitals as Movement’s Newest Ambassadors
International Herald Tribune/The Associated Press Teens are becoming the new face of the gay rights movement in the United States, reflecting a...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Mentoring Foster Parents
Over the course of a decade, Rosie Starks served as a foster parent to four children. For the past three years, she’s...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Camping.OUT
Getting campy: Girls use the costume closet to get dressed up for a camp activity. Photo: Philip Reames Triangle FoundationDetroit, Mich.(313) 537-7000...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
My Job – Cristina Chapman
Reaping what they sow: Chapman and boys on the Brooklyn farm. Farm EducatorAdded Value/Food ChangeBrooklyn, N.Y.(718) 855-5531Age: 27Salary: $40,000. About the Organizations:...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Awards for May 2007
Children and Family Fellowships For: Outstanding administrators, nonprofit leaders and community development professionals who have shown dedication to helping disadvantaged children...
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Opinion
The Child Welfare/Juvenile Justice Link
Your article in the April issue, “A Swift Kick in the Pants,” described chronic sexual molestation of boys in a Texas juvenile...
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Opinion
Youth Behave Well; Now What?
I was very pleased to see John Kelly’s “Youth Crime Mystery” article in the March issue. We see too few critical and...
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Opinion
Make Sure Children’s Cabinets Matter
All of a sudden, it seems, time is on everyone’s mind. In New York state, for example, the governor is challenging schools...
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Opinion
Time to Consider
In late March, the Rhode Island Foster Parents Association staged call-ins to the legislature to oppose budget cuts for youth services in...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Getting Ghetto
By Fred Wagenhauser, 21Represent, New York I’m white, I live in the projects, I can rap, and all my life I’ve made...
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News
Assessing the Well-Being of Adolescents: Guides for Out-of School Time Program Practitioners
Child Trends Three new Research-to-Results briefs from the nonprofit Child Trends offer research-based advice and assistance to after-school practitioners charged with looking...
