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Shelter Care vs. Foster Family Care

Youth Today recently drew attention to an important issue: the debate about what type of emergency care – shelter or family foster...

How Brown Sank to Red

The Bronx, N.Y. The abrupt bankruptcy filing by Brown Schools in late March left a wake of hardship – hundreds of youth...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Heads On Fire

San Diego, Calif.(619) 232-9573www.headsonfire.org Objective: Help youth use technology for social change. In a Nutshell: Partners with social service agencies and...

Creating Youth Centers: Two Approaches

When youth minister Russell Wilson returned to the church his father helped to build in southern Indiana, he saw a dwindling number...

News

Child Welfare’s Harsh Test

When the federal government introduced a bold system five years ago to evaluate state child welfare systems, it drew cheers from case...

Opinion

Youth Work’s Unexpected Allies

A recent issue of Education Week carried a front-page photograph of a studious octogenarian and urged readers to turn to an inside...

News

Report Roundup for May 2005

A compilation of the reports from this issue.

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

The Big Lie

You know all that evidence that’s come out in recent years showing that after-school programs boost academic achievement? Researcher Robert Halpern has...

Research

Research of Note from May 2005

Growth of Youth-Serving Organizations The Bridgespan Group Available free online at www.bridgespangroup.org/growthstudy. “What happens when a youth-serving organization attempts to grow larger...

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Newsmakers for May 2005

Nonprofits The debate at Omaha, Neb.-based Girls and Boys Town over hiring a new executive director two years ago was so heated...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Poop n’ Scoop

The abysmal state of knowledge development and its dissemination in youth work is captured by two items among the avalanche of newsletters,...

Opinion

Getting Money Under the Table

I’m about to get into a lot of trouble. Little did I know when I agreed to write a column for Youth...

After-School Caucus Strives for Congressional Clout

Hoping for some congressional help around budget time and beyond, national advocates for after-school programming announced the formation last month of after-school...

Opinion

Community College Hoopla vs. the Equity Gap

These are good times for community colleges. President Bush is stumping for support of the community college system. Special initiatives in the...

Opinion

Statistical Bigotry

From the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last month abolishing capital punishment for juveniles, to the latest media crusade to banish 16-year-old drivers,...

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Newsmakers for April 2005

Nonprofits Last month, Marc Schindler left the D.C.- and San Francisco-based Youth Law Center (YLC), a nonprofit that has lobbied and litigated...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Always Right – Children’s Rights Writes Secret Study

This is an emergency! Call the ACLU. The First Amendment is under attack by Children’s Rights, Inc., the litigious group run by...

Opinion

Put Every Child Ahead

In recent weeks, children and youth advocates from across the country have joined forces with anti-poverty activists to oppose President Bush’s proposed...

News