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Time to Sow Seeds, Not to Space Out

Now that the federal budget deficit is out of this world at $500 billion and counting, President Bush wants to put down...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Grants Awarded for February 2004

Gill FoundationGay and Lesbian Fund for Colorado2215 Market St., Suite 205Denver, CO 80205(303) 292-4455www.gillfoundation.org The following are general support grants for programs...

Opinion

Use History to Improve Youth Work

The last issue of Youth Today focused on some historical themes, from the National Youth Admin- istration in the Depression to today’s...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

An Ever-Changing Home (and)

The Puzzle of Ethnicity Issues of identity are crucial to teens. Here, two writers look at how their ethnic backgrounds and mixed...

Opinion

Letters to the Editor

Coalition Deserves Praise, Not DerisionVincent SchiraldiExecutive DirectorJustice Policy Institute Mark Soler, PresidentYouth Law CenterWashington, DC We read your article about the troubles...

Opinion

Coming of Age in America

Remember that phony list of the “top school problems” of 1940 (“talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in halls, getting out of...

Opinion

We Can Reform Juvenile Justice

Most of us in youth work would agree there is a crying need to move policies and programs toward a more balanced...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

News Briefs for February 2004

Guardians Must Visit Kids In what may be the first requirement of its kind in the nation, the Michigan Supreme Court has...

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Newsmakers for February 2004

Feds After a year that found its flagship AmeriCorps program in turmoil, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) begins 2004...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Congress: Corruptor of Our Youth (Services)

The 108th Congress is back in Washington for its second and – bless you, Founding Fathers – final session. The first session...

Opinion

One Man as an Institute for Ideas

David Weikart, founder and president emeritus of High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, died on Dec. 9. Through the magic of cell phones, I...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Press Watch for February 2004

Partway Gay? For Some Teen Girls, Sexual Preference Is a Shifting Concept The Washington Post More teenage girls in the Washington area...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Pubs and Videos for February 2004

Alcohol Alternate Routes: An Alcohol Diversion Program, by Laura Burney Nissen, is a strength-based model to be used with youth going through...

News

Report Roundup for February 2004

A compilation of the reports from this issue.

Research

Research of Note for February 2004

Drug use is down, soft drink consumption is up, and Child Protective Services agencies don’t reach most abused kids. Here is the...

News

Restraints Put on Hold

Greeneville, Tenn.—Staffers at the Holston United Methodist Home for Children painfully recall days in the mid-1990s when they dreaded coming to work....

News

A Giant in Adolescent Research

Minneapolis, Minn.—Gisela Konopka, who fled Nazi Germany after being jailed by the Gestapo, and then influenced generations of American youth workers as...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Faith-Based Organizations Reaching Troubled Kids Without Pitching the Faith

Wayne Gordon, pastor of the Lawnside Community Church ministries in Chicago, tells a story that epitomizes how some faith-based organizations work with...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

GUTS

Port Angeles, Wash.(888) 644-7049www.gutsforteens.org.Objective: To help teens improve their self-esteem and make better social choices. In a Nutshell: GUTS Institute is...

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