Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Mountaineer Challenge Academy
Kingwood, W.Va.(304) 329-2118www.wvchallenge.org Objective: Help at-risk youth obtain GEDs and develop life skills. In a Nutshell: This 22-week residential program uses...
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Opinion
Psychologists, Mental Health and Youth Development
Many professional groups comprise the tapestry of what Youth Today readers call “youth work”: Educators, health professionals, managers with MBAs, sociologists and...
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News
Laura Bush’s Youth Work Tour
Throughout the year, first lady Laura Bush has traveled the country touting programs that the White House says do everything from steering...
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Opinion
Dishonest Youth Videos
The avalanche of videos and program materials proposing to deter American youths from acting like American adults – that is, indulging sex,...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for September 2005
Foundations Former U.S. Rep. Steve Gunderson (R-Wis.), the first openly gay Republican congressman, was tapped to replace Dorothy Ridings as CEO of...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Ring Thing
An abstinence-only youth program has had its federal funding suspended because it used taxpayer dollars to promote religion.An investigation by the U.S....
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Opinion
Back to School
September is back-to-school month. And for the first time in the nation’s history, many communities are beginning to get an accurate sense...
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News
Youth Development’s Racial Challenge
Chicago The Southwest Youth Collaborative is housed in a corner building covered by graffiti murals and perched at the junction of several...
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News
Report Roundup of September 2005
Education The MetLife Survey of the American Teacher: Transitions and the Role of Supportive Relationships, 2005MetLife This year’s annual survey focuses on...
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Research
Research of Note for September 2005
Old Myth: The Rise in Girls’ Violence An Assessment of Recent Trends in Girls’ Violence Using Diverse Longitudinal Sources: Is the Gender...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Getting Evaluated – and Noticed
It’s a common and much complained-about paradox: How can nonprofit youth-serving agencies pay for the rigorous evaluations that funders require, when no...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Swept Away TV
Boca Raton, Fla.(561) 241-9110www.sweptawaytv.com Objective: Train youth to work in the media and give them an opportunity to run a TV...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Youth development grows outdoors, at low cost
To a lot of kids, Jimmy would have been just another worm. But for many of the children in New York’s Central...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Money 101
When the National Council on Economic Education gave an economics quiz to 2,242 high schoolers early this year, 60 percent of them...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Assessing After-School Programs
While it may take a village to raise a child, it seems to take even more to assess the quality of...
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News
New Homes for Foster Care’s Old Folks
After a day of hustling between college classes and two jobs, 19-year-old Sean Dachtler is ready to fall into bed in his...
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Cutting the Cost of Ex-Employees
If your agency pays into a standard state unemployment insurance fund, it could be wasting money. Nonprofits can opt out of a...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for July 2005
Nonprofits Nine months after the passing of Rich Scofield, founder and president of the Nashville-based School-Age Notes (SAN), a veteran youth work...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Covenant House: Nihil Obstat
No youth-serving agency in living memory has had such spectacular financial success or suffered as spectacular a scandal as New York-based Covenant...
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Opinion
Business Leaders May Have the Wrong Stuff
There is a great scene in the first half of the movie The Right Stuff. A group of men is crowded around...
