Youth Today
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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News
Report Roundup for February 2004
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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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News
Technology
In Hillsborough County, Fla., child welfare workers no longer have to call schools to find out whether youths under their supervision have...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Web Watch for February 2004
Child Welfare Survivors of the Systemwww.sos-fosternet.orgoffers a mishmash of all things foster care-relevant, operated by a social worker who is a...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Grants Awarded for December 2003 – January 2004
Wheat Ridge MinistriesOne Pierce Place, Suite 250EItasca, IL 60143(800) 762-6748www.wheatridge.org • Trinity Gardens Community Library Outreach Center, Mobile, Ala., $35,000 to help...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
News Briefs for December 2003 – January 2004
A Leary View Of Youth Voting As another presidential election year opens, what this country needs is … another campaign to get...
