Youth Today
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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...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Boot Camp Death Costs $5 Million
The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a lawsuit by the family of a boy...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for April 2007
Nonprofits Andy Munoz is the newest leader at the Academy for Educational Development’s Center for Youth Development and Policy Research. After a...
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A ‘Very Nice Person’ Takes a Hot Seat
JAMES-BROWN: Can “go by the rules when she needs to and think outside the box when she needs to.” When Chris James-Brown...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Beyond Planting Trees
Like a lot of community-based organizations aimed at troubled youth, the Oasis Center in Nashville began by trying to do a lot...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Teens Buying Books at Fastest Rate in Decades
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Book sales to teens are booming – up by more than 25 percent since 1999, according to one industry analysis....
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Working Together for the Sake of the Kids
Chicago Tribune Child welfare experts say that over the past decade, child-welfare systems have shifted toward more collaborative relationships between birth and...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Faith’s Battlefield
San Francisco Chronicle TeenMania is a $23 million-a-year nonprofit that stages three huge “BattleCry” rock concerts and 35 smaller “Acquire the Fire”...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
After-School Jobs Take Their Toll
The Marietta (Ga.) Times Nearly eight in 10 U.S. teens work during their high school years. But parents, teachers and experts worry...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Community Uniting Against Gangs
The Denver Post Six years after it was forced to disband after losing major funding, the Metro Denver Gang Coalition has revived...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Concerned About Juvenile Sex Offenders, States Move to Tighten Their Regulations
Education Week Several states are rethinking how they deal with juvenile sex offenders who are enrolled in schools. Recent cases in which...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Seattle Youth Garden Works
Seattle, Wash. (206) 632-0352 http://www.sygw.org Objective of the program: Provide job training to homeless and underserved youth. In a Nutshell: Seattle Youth...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Taryn Roberts
Taryn Roberts Chapter Support Coordinator Idaho Drug Free Youth Coeur d’Alene, Idaho (208) 664-4339 http://www.idahodrugfreeyouth.org Age: 22 Salary: $4,000 a year, for...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Awards for April 2007
Spirit of Youth Award For: Individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to America’s youth. By: National Runaway Switchboard. Winner: Rapper...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Fatuous Promises May Yield Promising Profit for Kids
Source: America’s Promise, grant proposal to CNCS, 2002 Could it be a decade since the “ready, fire, aim” Philadelphia launch of America’s...
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Opinion
Real Life About Youth — on TV?
The MTV network – which relentlessly runs stories about Britney Spear’s meltdown and shaved head – may surprise you with its reality...
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Opinion
Goodbye, “The O.C.”
Yes, it was two-thirds yuppie soap, but Fox television’s “The O.C.” illustrated a slice of teenage life with an irony that’s refreshing...
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Opinion
How We’ve Let TV Hurt Girls
Fifteen years ago, I became director of an 18-acre residential treatment center in Westchester County, N.Y. The place was in lousy condition...
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Opinion
The Foster Care-Industrial Complex Makes Its Move
Every ideology has its blind spots. For conservatives, it tends to be polluters, oil companies and the military-industrial complex. For my fellow...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Coloring Outside the Lines
New Youth Connections, New York (All names have been changed.) I didn’t think much about race until seventh grade, when I...
