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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

RIP: A Nonprofit Knows it’s Time to Go

Even when Family Support America (FSA) was flush with $24 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, its leaders knew trouble lurked...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Anti-Gun Programs: Where’s the Bang?

Recent reports about an alleged surge in youth violence have officials in cities throughout the country looking for ways to clamp down...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Hope Springs from Katrina’s Rubble

New Orleans, La. — Dolores Whitfield returned to her battered shotgun home, one of the rectangular domiciles that were invented here, shortly...

News

Storm Opens Doors to ‘change the things we did wrong’

Simon Gonsoulin and David Bell saw different things happening in juvenile justice before Katrina came ashore. But ask either how the storm...

News

Devastated Agency Strains To Shift Toward Preservation

For decades, Marketa Gautreau railed against the quality of service provided to Louisiana’s abused and neglected children as CEO of Prevent Child...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Recreation, Curfews and Depression: Major Problems Confront Youth

In addition to the long-term challenges of reforming the major city and state systems for New Orleans’ youth, some specific problems won’t...

News

Youth Groups Bring Hammers and Swings

Following are some of the relief efforts conducted by national organizations in the areas affected by the hurricanes: YouthBuild USA: Hundreds of...

News

Fewer Kids, More Partners

Out of the 180 agencies that belong to the Greater New Orleans After School Partnership, only 20 are running after-school programs a...

Elections: Attack with Care

Washington, D.C. — The Capitol Hill office of Vote Kids is not your typical youth advocacy headquarters, sporting warm-hearted mission statements and...

► Newsmakers

Newsmakers for September 2006

Nonprofits Mala Thakur has been acting executive director for the National Youth Employment Coalition (NYEC) so interminably that you almost forget she...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Nose Knows for September 2006

Never Focused The premise for FirstFocus, a public policy adjunct to America’s Promise-The Alliance for Youth, is sensible enough: Provide what FirstFocus...

News