Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Youth Build Immigrant Power
Oakland, Calif.(510) 268-0192www.aiwa.org Objective of the program: To develop the organizing and leadership skills of low-income Asian immigrant youth so they...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Community Boxing and Fitness Center
Kansas City, Kan.(913) 371-7676 Objective: Use boxing and personal guidance to meet the physical, mental and spiritual needs of youth. In...
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News
Report Roundup from December 2005 – January 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for December 2005 – January 2006
Nonprofits Public/Private Ventures CEO Gary Walker announced his retirement after a decade running the Philadelphia-based nonprofit. Walker’s migration to P/PV began when...
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GED answer
A large fiberglass tank was placed in a pit, as shown below. Before pipes could be attached and the tank filled with...
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Anti-Drug Groups Go Cold Turkey – on Cash
Judy Rubin and Bobbi Douglas were feeling pretty confident in early September. Both run agencies that have won federal Drug-Free Communities (DFC)...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
When Youth Job Training is Job 1
Chances are, if you’re not old enough to vote, you’re not pulling in a paycheck. Today’s teens face the most dismal job...
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News
In Windy City, Dropouts Drift In
Chicago People here call Jack Wuest many things.“Passionate advocate.”“Bulldog.”“Hope merchant.”“A real a—hole.” That last one comes from Wuest, projecting what some people...
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News
YAPing it Up
Lebanon, Pa. Alan McLoughlin spends much of his week laboring in his family’s construction business, doing what’s commonly considered tiring work. He...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Feds Find it Painful to PART
Youth-serving programs might take comfort in knowing that even federal agencies feel the pain of funding, designing and conducting program evaluations. The...
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Research
Research of December 2005-January 2006
Analysis of Predictors of Participation in Out-of-School Time Activities Harvard Family Research Project/Harvard UniversityAvailable at www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/ost_findings.html. Ask teens why they’re not doing...
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Opinion
Private Pays, but Not for Kids
The business section of The New York Times ran a feature story in August titled, “A Business Built on the Troubles of...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
JACS Tossed By Job Corps
JACS Tossed By Job Corps It would be hard to imagine a more innocuous do-gooder, national youth-serving organization than Joint Action in...
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Opinion
France Could Learn From U.S. Youth Riots
Last month’s youth riots in France raised many important questions, including what that country must do to tackle chronic youth alienation and...
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An alliance gives Boston youth workers clout and camaraderie
As the Boston Red Sox completed their historic march to the world baseball championship in 2004, a fledgling alliance of the city’s...
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Communities Get Scored on Helping Kids
When Marguerite Sallee became CEO of America’s Promise – The Alliance for Youth a little more than a year ago, she saw...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Cadillacs for Kids
Knoxville, Tenn. There is nothing fancy about where Rick Bowen lives, except perhaps the shiny Cadillacs in the parking lot. “I wouldn’t...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Inspiring Kids to Get Active
If you make cars or deodorant, it’s relatively easy to see the effect of your advertisements: Look at sales. But if you...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Katrina’s Harsh Winds of Change
The Children’s Coalition for Northeast Louisiana (CCNL) is based in Monroe, safely tucked away from the winds of Hurricane Katrina and the...
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Opinion
Medellin’s Murdered Children … and Ours
“Just light sprinkles,” the pilot rasped as my flight from Medellin, Colombia, descended through Miami’s murky skies. “In a few hours, it’ll...
