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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...
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News
CWLA Chief Seeks a New Placement
Taking over the Child Welfare League of America after David Liederman retired in 1999 was never going to be easy. The...
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Passport to Adulthood
Katrina Lawson was hardly a good candidate for homeownership, what with a tangled credit history and a landlord fining her for...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for March 2006
Nonprofits David Doi is out as executive director of the Washington-based Coalition for Juvenile Justice (CJJ), a national resource provider on...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
By Their Earmarks Ye Shall Know Them
Nose Knows is miffed. Why should shyster lobbyist Jack Abramoff, felonious ex-Rep. Duke Cunningham (R-Calif.) and Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) get all...
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Opinion
Secret to Success: Deliver Meaning
Accomplishment. Beauty. Community. Creation. Duty. Those are five of the 15 “meanings” identified in a hot new business book about the bottom-line...
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News
Report Roundup for March 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Research of Note for March 2006
Feasibility of Screening Adolescents for Suicide Risk in "Real-World" High School Settings PIRE Chapel Hill CenterAbstract available at www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/96/2/282 In September...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Teaching Kids to Raise Their Kids
For years, the good news about teen pregnancy has been that it’s going down. The national teen birth rate fell from 61.8...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
On The Verge
Napa, Calif.(510) 599-7786www.onthemovebayarea.org Objective: Recruit and support young leaders who are committed to building effective organizations for social change in the...
