Youth Today
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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...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Forget Hip-Hop; Get YCC
A civil war is brewing in youth work force development centers. It pits many veteran youth workers against a younger crowd that...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Measuring Effectiveness in the Real World
In a field of research seemingly obsessed with developing, cataloging and replicating evidence-based program models, one study has found a unique...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Pork Chopped
Sitting in his Louisville, Ky., office, Vern Rickert contemplates the sudden hole that’s been blown in his program’s budget by a decision...
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News
Hunting for Grandma
Campbell, Calif. — Like many children in foster care, the one on Kevin Campbell’s mind this morning has no known relatives. But...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Faithful Partnerships
While the idea of churches working with secular organizations to provide social services often sparks public debate, the truth is that nonprofits...
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Opinion
MySpace.com Menaces Teens? C’mon!
Many parents think their children are safe in one of our most hallowed institutions, until they discover its dark side: violence, sexual...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for February 2006
Foundations William Bell, vice president of child and family services for Seattle-based Casey Family Programs (assets: $2 billion), will replace the...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Atlantic Cup Winners
Once feared lost in the Bermuda Triangle of consultant-induced philanthropic anomie, the Atlantic Philanthropies (assets: $4.3 billion) has sailed into port with...
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Opinion
Age of Aquarius Meets Era of Accountability
I recently participated in back-to-back meetings about outcomes of community schools and after-school programs. At each event, leaders in the field gathered...
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News
Report Roundup for February 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
