Youth Today
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Research
Research of Note for July-August 2004
New Findings about Risky Behaviors Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance – United States, 2003Jo Anne Grunbaum, Ed.D., and colleaguesMorbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,...
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News
Unjust Medicine
By all accounts, 17-year-old Omar Paisley died an excruciating death. For three days, Omar lay on a concrete bunk, weeping and moaning...
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News
An Evaluation of Volunteers Courts Controversy
The Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) program couldn’t sound more apple pie, more thousand points of light. CASAs are a cadre of...
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News
Program Evaluations
Philadelphia—Like everyone who runs a youth-serving agency, Simran Sidhu believes her YouthBuild program here improves lives. But like most program managers and...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Phoenix Project
New York, N.Y.(212) 340-2986http://phoenix.cce.cornell.edu Objective: Teach youth how to conduct valid community research in order to press for youth priorities in...
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News
Fund Raising
About $2 billion was donated to charities through the Internet last year, according to estimates by the likes of the ePhilanthropy Foundation....
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Opinion
Stumbling Toward Youth Work Clarity
It seems at last that real youth work with teens is slowly making its way to the top of the agenda. Most...
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Opinion
With a Drug Czar like Walters, Who Needs Osama?
Nothing enrages the zealots at the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) – especially Director John Walters – like a...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for June 2004
Nonprofits The National Crime Prevention Council, after being under the leadership of the recently retired Jack Calhoun for more than 20 years,...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Judgment Day Looms for Juvenile Judges
It’s disorder in the court for the 2,000-member National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ), headquartered in Reno, Nev....
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Opinion
Risky Businesses
Consider this: In 2001, more young people declared bankruptcy than graduated from college. College administrators speculate that bad debt, not bad...
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Research
Research of Note for June 2004
Obesity and lack of exercise have joined issues such as bullying and sex as matters of major concern for adolescents. New research...
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Opinion
The Fatal Flaw in Pew’s Foster Panel
The foster care system is broken and needs substantial overhaul. That much is evident. It is also clear that most of the...
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News
Fixing Foster Care
Detroit, Mich.—A national commission’s new recommendations for overhauling the nation’s foster care system hit on some of the most significant problems and...
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News
Youth Work’s Greatest Tails
Staffers at the Chaddock residential program for troubled youth in Quincy, Ill., were walking around campus one day last year when they...
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News
Profiles in Youth Work
One of the rising young stars in youth work began her career as a disillusioned high schooler, ditching classes and handing out...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Texas Youth Hunting Program
San Antonio, Texas(800) 460-5494www.texas-wildlife.org/tyhp.htm Objective: To reach new hunters and promote safe hunting. In a Nutshell: The Texas Youth Hunting Program...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Awards for May 2004
Kids to Kids National Service Award For: Children and young people who improved their communities through outstanding service projects.By: Child Welfare League...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Grants Awarded for May 2004
The Nord Family Foundation747 Milan Ave.Amherst, Ohio 44401 (440) 984-3939www.nordff.org • Cleveland Museum of Natural History, $5,000 to help fund the Science...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
How Vegetarianism Offends My Grandmother (and)
Food and Family You are what you eat, or so the saying goes. But what if your family doesn’t approve of what...
