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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

News

Congress

Lawmakers plan to introduce legislation this month that they hope will make it unnecessary for parents to give up custody of their...

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...

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...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Last Resort for Family in Danger (and)

When Homelessness Hits Home Los Angeles has more than 40,000 homeless people and New York has nearly that many, including 9,000 families...

Opinion

Letters to the Editor

Feeling Green Ann De LacyOlney, Md. Jim Myer’s story about the Darrell Green Youth Life Foundation (“Football Star Scores in Washington,” July/August)...

Opinion

Gutless About Gut Issues

Obesity has only recently been publicized as a major American public health crisis, and already authorities are pushing the usual politically popular...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

News Briefs for September 2003

World Tobacco Law Advances Proponents of an international treaty on tobacco control, which focuses on preventing youth smoking, are pushing for ratification...

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