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Are You My Mentor?

There’s this guy, a writer. Coaches a boys’ baseball team. He sees the kids three times a week; they have a great...

Trying to Awaken a Sleeping Treaty

Nobody would count Jeffrey Newman among the uninformed when it comes to children’s rights. But one day last month, the executive director...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Summer Jobs Forcast: Dry

Summer Jobs Forcast: Dry Teens might be in for another job drought this summer. For the sixth summer in a row, teens...

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Newsmakers for June 2006

Nonprofits Operating a bicoastal advocacy effort had become more burdensome than beneficial for the Youth Law Center (YLC), a law firm...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Another DeLay Casualty

The precipitous collapse of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s political career is reverberating in national child welfare policy circles. The Hammer,...

News

Report Roundup for June 2006

A compilation of the reports from this issue.

Research

Research of Note for June 2006

What Are Kids Getting Into These Days? Demographic Differences in Youth Out-of-School Time Participation Harvard Family Research ProjectAvailable at www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/content/projects/afterschool/resources/demographic.pdf When...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Generation Rap

At the Mt. Kisco Day Care Center in Westchester, N.Y., youth in the after-school program often prepare healthy snacks alongside senior citizens....

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Youth Opportunity Boston

Boston, Mass.(617) 541-2602www.cityofboston.gov/bra/yoboston Objective: Connect youth who have been in the juvenile justice system with services that can help them succeed...

Opinion

Who Are the Immigrants

“In time, the experience of the children of immigrants became the experience of all American children, who now were the representatives of...

Opinion

On a Path Toward Thriving

As caring adults in the lives of youth, many of us are privileged to witness young people discover an aspect of themselves...

News

Nonprofit Consulting Goes Upscale

Boston — It’s a long way from the wood-paneled offices of consulting firms like Bain & Co. to the yard-sale decor of...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Everybody Talks about Evidence, but…

Evidence-based practices and programs (EBPs) are all the buzz these days: The phrase seems to be popping up with increasing frequency in...

News

The Pitch for High Fidelity

Denver, Colo. — When Robert Barnoski saw the first outcome data from his evaluation of Functional Family Therapy in early 2002, he...

An Experiment to Keep Kids Home

Florida is about to launch the first statewide test of a flexible system of foster care spending that the Bush administration would...

As Drug Use Drops, Drug Deaths Rise

For decades, the government and news media have trumpeted drug use surveys as the jumping-off point for how well the nation is...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Mud War @ Job Corps

“Two strong women mud wrestling.” That’s how one Capitol Hill Democratic staffer describes the match of wills between Emily Stover DeRocco, assistant...

News

Report Roundup for May 2006

A compilation of the reports from this issue.

Research

Research of Note for May 2006

Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National ReportU.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention/National Center for Juvenile JusticeAvailable at http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ojstatbb/nr2006/index.html ...

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