Youth Today
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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► 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...
