Even when Family Support America (FSA) was flush with $24 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, its leaders knew trouble lurked...
Recent reports about an alleged surge in youth violence have officials in cities throughout the country looking for ways to clamp down...
New Orleans, La. — Dolores Whitfield returned to her battered shotgun home, one of the rectangular domiciles that were invented here, shortly...
Simon Gonsoulin and David Bell saw different things happening in juvenile justice before Katrina came ashore. But ask either how the storm...
For decades, Marketa Gautreau railed against the quality of service provided to Louisiana’s abused and neglected children as CEO of Prevent Child...
In addition to the long-term challenges of reforming the major city and state systems for New Orleans’ youth, some specific problems won’t...
Following are some of the relief efforts conducted by national organizations in the areas affected by the hurricanes: YouthBuild USA: Hundreds of...
Out of the 180 agencies that belong to the Greater New Orleans After School Partnership, only 20 are running after-school programs a...
Washington, D.C. — The Capitol Hill office of Vote Kids is not your typical youth advocacy headquarters, sporting warm-hearted mission statements and...
Nonprofits Mala Thakur has been acting executive director for the National Youth Employment Coalition (NYEC) so interminably that you almost forget she...
Never Focused The premise for FirstFocus, a public policy adjunct to America’s Promise-The Alliance for Youth, is sensible enough: Provide what FirstFocus...
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
The annual National Institute of Justice (NIJ) conference in July convened researchers whose work is funded by the U.S. Department of Justice’s...
As mentoring’s popularity continues to soar, perhaps no one is getting more attention than children of prisoners. Programs for those youth have...
Pittsburgh, Pa.(412) 422-1770www.youthchess.net Objective: Use chess to help youth improve their thinking, analytical abilities and grades. In a Nutshell: Jerry Meyers,...
The bigoted vendetta waged by America’s news media and institutions against youth has entered an even uglier phase: outright fabrication. Endless “teen...
A hot topic in the world of after-school and youth development programs is their role in promoting young people’s academic success. Often...
In a downtrodden neighborhood in Tucson, Ariz., La Paloma Family Services faced a struggle typical to group homes around the country: The...
To parents and youth workers, a ground-breaking research article published in 1999 simply provided scientific backing for what they see all the...
Treyce d’Gabriel says she can tell a lot about a kid from a note he scrawls or his handwritten laundry list. She...