Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Getting It Together for Abused Kids
The number of child advocacy centers (CACs) in the United States today is 12 times as high as it was 12 years...
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News
Curfews and Crime
As head of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, Dan Macallair has repeatedly given city officials scientific data that juvenile curfews...
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High Hopes Stored in a Children’s Cabinet
In a rare Capitol Hill victory for youth advocates, President Bush last month signed legislation to create the nation’s first youth development...
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School Shootings? Please Ignore the Guns
Following the recent rash of fatal shootings in schools, the Bush administration scrambled to protect youth from more violence last month by...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for November 2006
Nonprofits Judy Nee officially became the first person to serve as the board president and CEO of the 18-year-old, Boston-based National AfterSchool...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Have You Seen Me?
Rarely has a special interest group and its Capitol Hill supporters been hoisted higher on its own sanctimonious petard than the National...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Hugo Classes for Kids
Seattle, Wash.(206) 322-7030www.hugohouse.org Objective: Give young writers opportunities to develop their writing skills and expand their imaginations. In a Nutshell: Hugo...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Literacy Programs Rewrite the Book
The advent of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and first lady Laura Bush’s emphasis on literacy has been a good-news, bad-news scenario...
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News
Report Roundup for November 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Research
Research of Note for November 2006
Rebuilding Families, Reclaiming Lives: State Obligations to Children in Foster Care and Their Incarcerated Parents The Brennan Center for Justice at New...
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Opinion
The Ugly Euginics of ‘Teen Pregnancy Prevention’
Gary Yates, president of The California Wellness Foundation, recently mischaracterized teen pregnancy, invoked destructive stereotypes that brand poorer mothers’ babies as “social...
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Opinion
Why So Silent About the War?
American youth development programs, like the American people, are all over the place when it comes to helping young people learn and...
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Opinion
Youth Reseach Debate
Response to Youth Research: Duh! By Mark Redmond The woman who heads our education center here at Spectrum Youth and Family Services...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
After-Life for After School
Bricca P. Sweet doesn’t want another federal after-school grant. Don’t misunderstand: They’ve helped her in the past. But now that her community...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Uh-Oh: What to do When a Study Shows Nothing?
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) got some good news last month: Drug use is down for the...
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News
Sure They Talk, But Can They Walk?
As a symbol of the wrong way to do things, the razor wire-enclosed Oak Hill Youth Center in Laurel, Md., has long...
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News
The High Passion and Low Pay of Youth Work
Youth work has never been a promising career path for people whose life goals include driving their Beemer to their beach house....
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Dissecting Civic Engagement
Washington, D.C. — While studies by researchers and observations by youth organizers have hailed a rise in young people’s civic engagement in...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
The Rising Voices of Foster Parents
When Daniele and Steve Baxter took over the Foster Parent Association of Washington State in 2004, the organization was in a tight...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
After Katrina: YouthBuild Hammers Back
North Gulfport, Miss. — An unforgiving sun beat down, making the work of rebuilding a partly leveled city all the more burdensome....
