Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Plugging In Disconnected Youth
The statistics can be depressing: One-third of all Americans drop out of school. Only half of African-American, Latino and American Indian youth...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Temple Youth VOICES Project
Philadelphia, Pa. (215) 204-6276www.temple.edu/voices Objective: To help youth develop their capacity to advocate for issues of concern to themselves and their...
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Opinion
Race, Class, Culture And Perceived Entitlements
Bear with me. I’m trying to make sense of a series of writings spread before me that speak to how race, class...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
The Quality Conundrum
Conventional wisdom says the quality of youth work programs rests in no small measure on the quality of the program staff. But...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
When a Thief Strikes from Inside
Retired police investigator Jim Brauch blames himself for the troubles that helped force the South Everett Youth and Community Center to...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Service-Learning: What Have We Learned?
Youth volunteerism is being celebrated around the country in commemoration of National Service Day this month, but Andrew Furco recalls the resistance...
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News
Boot Camps Get Dismissed
Last month, authorities exhumed the body of a 14-year-old boy who had died in a Florida juvenile boot camp, conducted an autopsy,...
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Opinion
The New Isolationists?
I have heard it all too often in youth program circles: “The United States should focus on the challenges right here between...
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Opinion
Drive-By Journalism
To grasp the appalling meanness of the American Automobile Association’s latest media attack on teenagers, consider the tragedy of Travis Bosse. He...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for April 2006
Nonprofits When the Colorado Children’s Campaign (CCC) was down on the mat a few years ago, its most loyal supporters in...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Love, Senator Stevens
On Jan. 10, it was daylight for fewer than four hours in Fairbanks, Alaska (area population: 80,000). But according to reports in...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
America’s Overpaid Promise
The February edition of Youth Today arrived one recent day, and as I do every year with this particular issue, I flipped...
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News
Report Roundup for April 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Research of Note for April 2006
America’s Youth at 18: School Enrollment and Employment Transitions Between Ages 17 and 18 Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Libraries Get a Read on Kids
It’s on the books: In January, Cleveland’s Wickliffe Public Library passed a rule that bans anyone under 14 from the library property...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Generation Engage
Washington, D.C.(202) 465-4807www.generationengage.org Objective: Engage young people in dialogues about political issues and events. In a Nutshell: Generation Engage operates independently...
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Opinion
What Part of Mediocre Don’t We Get?
We hear it all the time. We hear it from the podium and the pulpit, from policymakers and pundits: Children are...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Federal Budget Forecast: More Pain
February was a painful month for youth programs that get federal funding. President Bush presented a plan for domestic spending that...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Lessons from a Letdown
When youth-serving programs and their funders make their evaluations transparent, the entire field benefits from the lessons learned – even when...
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News
Detention Centers:
Staunton, Va. — When Superintendent Tim Smith goes to work every day at the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Detention Center here, the layout...
