Youth Today
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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News
Report Roundup for May 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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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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► Newsmakers
Newmakers for May 2006
Nonprofits Sid Johnson isn’t your average nonprofit executive. The former head of the Chicago-based Prevent Child Abuse America, who served as...
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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...
