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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Half-a-Billion To Fight Obesity

In what is billed as the largest financial commitment by any foundation to fight childhood obesity, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Ex-Youth Workers Charged in Abuse Scandal

The scandal that is roiling the Texas juvenile justice system has yielded its first criminal indictments. Two former administrators at the West...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Missing Kids’ Center Spreads to Texas

Two Texas businesswomen, armed with $1 million in private backing, have persuaded the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) to...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Churches Comply with Abuse Guidelines

Twenty-seven out of 29 Catholic dioceses and eparchies audited in 2006 are compliant with the “Charter for the Protection of Children and...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Volunteers Worth More than Ever

Managing a cadre of volunteers can be a management headache, but it’s hard to beat them as an investment value. They were...

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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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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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...

► 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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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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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...

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...

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...

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:...

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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