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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...

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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...

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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

Report Roundup for April 2005

Child Welfare Substance Use and Need for Treatment among Youths Who Have Been in Foster Care U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health...

Research

Research of Note for April 2005

Foster Care Runaways Youth Who Run Away from Substitute Care Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago vailable free online at...

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Caseworker Turnover Hurts Kids and Agencies

Everyone intuitively understands it – child welfare workers, their supervisors, the courts, even the kids. A revolving cast of caseworkers is not...

News

Holy Youth Work

Baltimore, Md.—In 1954, a U.S. Senate subcommittee summoned child psychologists and comic book publishers to hearings on a matter of grave national...

News

Behind the Death Penalty Ban

For the past several years, Dr. David Fassler has enjoyed putting his plastic brain through x-ray machines at airports. At an airport...

News

An Agency’s Near-Fatal Drift Ends with an Unlikely Rescue

In 1999, the Columbine High School shooting claimed the lives of 14 youths and changed the lives of millions of Americans. It...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

TEEN LINE

Los Angeles, Calif.(310) 423-3401www.teenlineonline.org Objective: To provide a teen-to-teen helpline with community outreach services. In a Nutshell: Teens are trained...