Youth Today
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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...
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News
Report Roundup of July – August 2005
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Research
Research of Note of July 2005
Firearm Violence Exposure and Serious Violent Behavior University of Michigan/Science magazineAbstract available free at www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/308/5726/1239a, or contact American Association for the Advancement...
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News
Outreach Worker’s Fire Sets Off Alarms
The city’s most famous homeless youth advocate and onetime accused killer sits in Denny’s, although sitting doesn’t really describe the behavior of...
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Opinion
Summer of Service: An American Rite of Passage?
In many cultures, the transition from childhood into the teen years is marked by a rite of passage in which the young...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Renaissance Scholars Program
Santa Cruz, Calif. (831) 459-2424renaissance_scholars@ucsc.edu Objective: Help foster youth get into college and stay there. In a Nutshell: Provides youth from high...
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Opinion
A Tale of Two Studies
The recently released final report on Mathematica’s study of after-school programs (“When Schools Stay Open Late: The National Evaluation of the 21st...
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Opinion
A Topic That Frightens Youth Work
Let’s talk taboos. In the not-too-distant past, cancer was unmentionable, even if someone you loved was dying from the disease. We’ve come...
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News
Report Roundup for June 2005
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Getting Businesses to Sign On
Thirty-one years ago, Larry Woolridge figured that one way to funnel troubled Louisville youth to local shelters is to bring the shelters...
