Youth Today
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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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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Partnerships and the Internet Feed Growth
In 1989, youth work leaders in Washington, D.C., initiated a special day to recognize community service contributions by youth around the country,...
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News
Organizations sign memo to White House urging youth priorities
In a new effort to coordinate the youth work field around major national priorities, more than 200 youth-serving organizations signed a memo...
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News
Youth Advocates Vie for Attention in Washington
Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle introduced bipartisan legislation last month that would, for the first time, attempt to...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for March 2005
Nonprofits The Los Angeles-based Amer-I-Can Foundation has long been a darling of Congress, receiving $1.7 million over the past four years in...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Beleaguered at the League
For Democratic-leaning human service groups like the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA), the inauguration of President George W. Bush for a...
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Opinion
Professional Development: Investing in Futures
The field of youth development faces major challenges in creating and sustaining our work force. Long treated as a component of our...
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Opinion
Raiding Our Staff at Nonprofits
A while back, one of my best staffers came to me with the kind of news that is too commonly heard by...
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News
Report Roundup for March 2005
Child WelfareEstimating Financial Support for Kinship CaregiversThe Urban Institute This brief examines government payments to children in private kinship care (77 percent...
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Research
Research of Note for March 2005
Immigrant Kids, Married Parents and Poverty The Health and Well-Being of Young Children of Immigrants The Urban Institute Available free at www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=311139 ...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Staff Development Youth Workers Rate Themselves
While an increasing amount of research in recent years has focused on the features of successful youth programs, precious little research has...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Bush’s New Deal
Every year, the release of the president’s proposed budget sets off a ritual of sky-is-falling wails from youth advocates and people who...
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News
What Teenagers’ Faith Means for Youth Work
By Yonat Shimron Chapel Hill, N.C.—For the increasing number of faith-based programs that serve youth, an extensive study of teenagers’ religious beliefs...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Dental Gap
If you ask people what type of disease is most prevalent in children, few would say dental disease. But tooth decay is...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Canine Commandos
Parkway Merritt Island, Fla.(321) 454-1080www.tropical.brevard.k12.fl.us Objective: Training dogs in shelters in order to improve their chances of being adopted, while helping...
