Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Hard Lessons: The Struggle to Keep Milwaukee Schools Safe
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel This four-part investigative series on Milwaukee Public Schools examines intensifying campus violence that has teachers filing complaints and...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
School Fears on the Rise
The Philadelphia Inquirer In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings and the eighth anniversary of Columbine High School killings, nervous school...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Urban Boatbuilders
St. Paul, Minn. (651) 644-9225 http://www.urbanboatbuilders.org Objective: To provide experiential learning and personal growth through building wooden boats. In a Nutshell: Urban...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Nabulungi Akinshegun
Nabulungi Akinshegun Photo: Interages Program Coordinator Across Ages Mentoring Interages (301) 949-3551 http://www.interagesmd.org Age: 28 Salary: $41,500 About the Organization: Interages links...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Awards for June 2007
Presidential Spirit of Community Awards For: Middle and high school youth who have made outstanding service contributions through volunteering. By: Prudential Financial...
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Opinion
The Youth “Mental Health Crisis” Hoax
In the United States, “action” consists not of taking constructive measures to fix a troubling social problem, but designating a powerless scapegoat...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Help Your Youth Workers Succeed
What do your youth workers need to succeed? Search Institute and the National Collaboration for Youth recently surveyed more than 1,000 youth...
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Opinion
The Ugly Reality of Restraints
As a one-time youth worker who worked with youth in an adjudicated residential setting in southern Michigan, I am dismayed by the...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
School Daze
Represent, New York There I was on the train to visit City-As-School for the first time. It was an alternative school for...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
My Escape from High School
New Youth Connections, New York When I think about all the years I spent sitting in class, what stands out is an...
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News
Time for Reform: Support Relatives in Providing Foster Care and Permanent Families for Children
Kids Are Waiting Children in out-of-home placements with relatives tend to be as safe as, or safer than, children placed with unrelated...
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News
Effect of Deployment on the Occurrence of Child Maltreatment in Military and Nonmilitary Families
American Journal of Epidemiology A time-series analysis by researchers at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and the Research Triangle...
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News
Additional Federal Action Could Help States Address Challenges in Providing Services to Children and Families
U.S. Government Accountability Office Despite substantial federal and state investment, states have had difficulty ensuring the safety, well-being and permanency of children...
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The Health Benefits of Volunteering: A Review of Recent Research
Corporation for National Service By helping others, volunteers appear to help themselves live longer, function at higher levels and reduce depression, says...
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Key Facts on Corporate Foundations
Foundation Center Giving by the nation’s more than 2,600 grant-making corporate foundations rose an estimated 6 percent in 2006, to a record...
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The NIH MRI Study of Normal Brain Development
National Institutes of Health (NIH)/Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society The first findings from the NIH’s large MRI Study of Normal Brain...
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Interactive Food & Beverage Marketing: Targeting Children and Youth in the Digital Age
Center for Digital Democracy and the Berkeley Media Studies Group Food and beverage companies are using cell phones, instant messaging, video games,...
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An Action Plan for Behavioral Health Workforce Development Strengthening Professional Identity: Challenges of the Addictions Treatment Workforce
U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration These two resources can help mental health and substance abuse professionals organize and strengthen...
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Focal Point: Traumatic Stress/Child Welfare
Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children’s Mental Health The winter 2007 edition of the semiannual magazine Focal Point highlights...
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The Collective Leadership Framework: A Workbook for Cultivating and Sustaining Community Change
W.K. Kellogg Foundation/Kellogg Leadership for Community Change KLCC acknowledges that “conventional approaches to training leaders often overlook important community voices.” To ensure...
