Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The ‘C’s and Y’s’ of the YWCA
A National Organization for Women (NOW) press release in May trumpeted the good news: “Women’s rights supporters across the U.S. cheered” as...
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Opinion
On Nature vs. Nurture, Success and Failure
Almost everyone remembers doing the obligatory science experiment where two identical seeds (mine were lima beans) are grown under different conditions and...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Press Watch for October 2003
Safe Haven: School Provides Needed Stability for Homeless Teens and Street Wisdom: Young Outreach Worker Hits the Ground to Aid Hub’s Homeless...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Pubs and Videos for October 2003
Civic Engagement Millennial Manifesto: A Youth Activist Handbook, by Scott Beale and Abeer Abdalla, is a call to arms for members of...
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Opinion
New Schools = New Opportunities for Youth Groups
Here’s a fact that may not have yet crossed the radar screen of most youth workers: America is involved in a major...
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News
Report Roundup for October 2003
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Research
Research of Note for October 2003
Looking for Good News About Youth State of Our Country’s Youth 2003Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished AmericansAvailable free at www.horatioalger.com/pdfs/state03.pdf. When I...
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Opinion
Taking Collaboration for Youth Seriously
As chairman of the National Collaboration for Youth, a coalition of more than 40 national nonprofit youth-serving and youth-interested organizations, I am...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The ManaTEEN Club
Bradenton, Fla.(941) 761-3207www.manateens.org Objective: Train youth for community service and connect them to community needs that fit their interests. In a...
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News
The Suicide Test
Bergenfield, N.J.—On March 11, 1987, Cheryl Burress broke a date, saying she was “going to see Joe.” Her friend Joe Major had...
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News
Arnold Learns Youth Work
When the people who ran Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Inner City Games programs in more than a dozen cities hooked up on conference calls...
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News
AmeriCorps Backers Talk, Funding Chances Walk
At the opening of last month’s filibuster in Washington to save 20,000 AmeriCorps positions, Candace Spiller stepped up to the podium, fresh...
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News
How a Teen Moved From High School to Statehouse
Many teenagers have been inspired by the quick success that Derrick Seaver found after graduating from high school two years ago, but...
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News
For Foster Kids, Aging Out No Longer Means Left Out
Cheyenne, Wyo.—Gina Scott was sent to her first foster home when she was 9. Like many others in the foster care system,...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Hip-Hop: Love It, Hate It … Use It
Hip-hop culture is everywhere: tagged on the sides of buildings and bridges, bumping in Jeep Wranglers in school parking lots, blasting out...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Awards for September 2003
Herbert Hoover Humanitarian Award For: Volunteer support of educational and youth-development programs.By: Boys & Girls Clubs of America.Winner: Arlene Mark, author and...
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Opinion
Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do?
Suddenly, the world is filled with nasty girls. “Girls just want to be mean,” the New York Times Magazine announced last year,...
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News
Congress
Lawmakers plan to introduce legislation this month that they hope will make it unnecessary for parents to give up custody of their...
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Opinion
A Bend in the Trends
A battery of positive youth indicators over the past decade has brought encouraging news to all youth workers. Teen pregnancy, smoking and...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Grants Awarded for September 2003
The George Gund Foundation1845 Guildhall Building45 Prospect Ave. WestCleveland, OH 44115(216) 241-3114www.gundfdn.org • El Barrio Inc., Cleveland, $40,000 for the Creando Posibilidades/Creating...
