Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Hush: Moving from Silence to Healing after Childhood Sexual Abuse
Nicole Braddock Bromley208 pages. $12.99. A book written for both young abuse victims and the adults who care about them, in...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kids’ Inner Wildness
Chris MercoglianoBeacon Press201 pages. $24.95. A guide on how to allow children to safely experience “authentic” childhoods. The beginning chapters analyze how,...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Raise Them Up: The Real Deal on Reaching Unreachable Kids
Kareem Moody, with Anitra BuddSearch Institute 111 pages. $9.95. A how-to guide for youth workers on dealing with kids who are especially...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Essential Guide to Talking with Teens
Jean Sunde PetersonFree Spirit Publishing282 pages. $29.95. A compilation of discussion topics for youth workers who lead small group discussions. The introduction...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Child Advocacy 360
Vowing to “engage, enrage or motivate” people to take action against child abuse and neglect, this independent, nonprofit news service uses video,...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Philadelphia Children’s Commission
A model site for putting a youth spin on local information. Postings include the city’s “Children’s Budget,” its Children’s and Community Report...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Kids Are Waiting
The Kids Are Waiting campaign was set up with support by the Pew Charitable Trusts to promote the findings of The Pew...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Nineline
Through this electronic version of its counseling hotline, (800) 999-9999, the nonprofit Covenant House tries to help youth in crisis over families,...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Learn to Mentor
This online course offers everything needed to “fully prepare you to be a mentor,” says its founder, The National Mentoring Partnership. The...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Drug Prevention News Wire
The U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy has launched a free RSS news feature about drug education and prevention. Users can...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Awards for May 2007
The David and Lucile Packard FoundationLos Altos, Calif.(650) 948-7658 • Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, a project of the Action Against Crime...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Web Watch for April 2002
Education BBC Education Online: Count Me Inwww.bbc.co.uk/education/revisewise is a part of BBC Online’s enormous education site dedicated to children. Created as...
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News
Can Nonprofits and Schools Share Power?
Henriquez-McArdle has helped South Brooklyn Community High School evolve into a model for curtailing dropouts. Photo: Nura Qureshi Brooklyn, N.Y.—For four years,...
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News
‘A Swift Kick in the Pants’
Youth at a TYC assessment unit. Photo: Michael Ainsworth/Dallas Morning News The most stunning aspect of the sex abuse scandal rocking the...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Bid Goodbye to Earmarks
The elimination of earmarks in the 2007 budget should mean more open competition for federal funds, according to a memo from the...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Groups Win $1 Million for Social Change
Organizations that focus on youth have won five of the ten $1 million prizes to be given out this year through the...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Denmark’s Famous Youth House
The house – for 25 years a symbol of youth liberation or criminal anarchy, depending on your point of view –...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Community Service Giants Explore Merger
Two of the nation’s premier nonprofits in community service and volunteering – the Points of Light Foundation and the Hands On Network...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Unemployment Trusts For Nonprofits Merge
Two of the nation’s leading unemployment trusts for nonprofits have merged, creating one of the largest such firms in the country. Joint...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Congress Urged to Boost Kinship Care
Advocates of more federal support for kinship care took their case to Congress last month. Representatives from Generations United, the Pew Charitable...
