Youth Today
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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....
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Foundation Child Neglect in New Orleans?
New Orleans, La. — While billions of dollars have been poured into rebuilding this city and much of the Gulf Coast after...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for October 2006
Nonprofits Mark Russell is the new executive director at Kids Enjoy Exercise Now USA (KEEN), a D.C.-based nonprofit that provides free one-on-one...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Another Disconnect for Kids
Now comes the demise of the Washington-based Connect for Kids. CFK was born in 1991 as a communications arm of the now-defunct...
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News
Report Roundup for October 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Research of Note for October 2006
Capturing Promising Practices in Recruitment and Retention of Frontline Youth WorkersCornerstones for Kids/National Collaboration for YouthAvailable free at www.nassembly.org/nydic/documents/CompletePublication.pdf. The Human Services...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Health Care on Wheels
While youth advocates have successfully lobbied in recent years for programs to expand health insurance coverage for poor children, insurance is not...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Safe Sitter
Indianapolis, Ind.(800) 255-4089www.safesitter.org Objective: Improve the welfare of young children by increasing the number of young adolescents instructed in safe child-care...
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Opinion
Don’t Deify Graduation Rates
The buzz about improving the high school graduation rate is becoming a roar. Governors’ children’s cabinets are picking this as the leading...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Help a Kid, Make a Buck
For years, social scientists of many stripes have tried to make the case for investing in the healthy development of our nation’s...
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New Sex Offender Law: Watch the Details
The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, signed by President Bush in July, was widely hailed as one of the most...
