Youth Today
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News
Staff Management
People who volunteer to work at youth agencies think they’re giving their labor for free, but agency managers know better. Several recent...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for July 2004
Feds While embattled members of President George W. Bush’s inner military circle continue to survive under public scrutiny, his lesser-known combatants in...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Child Savers: Pain & Reward
When Sid Johnson, 63, mounted his new black 1500cc Honda Goldwing touring motorcycle and zoomed off on a yearlong see-the-U.S.A. odyssey, he...
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Opinion
Reflecting on 10 Years of Reflection
Seventy thousand. That is roughly the number of words I have written for this column over the past 10 years. It seems...
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Opinion
Common Cents
The first time I visited Portland, Ore., some 12 years ago, I knew it was a cutting-edge kind of place. On the...
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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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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...
