Youth Today
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News
Responding to Crisis
The Catholic Church sex abuse scandal offers an ever-growing list of lessons in how to handle or flub an organizational crisis, with...
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News
Youth Employment
This summer’s youth job market is expected to be the worst since the end of World War II, and is not likely...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Web Watch for July-August 2003
After School Promising Practices in Afterschool http://www.afterschool.org%20provides youth workers with a valuable resource that covers all aspects of creating or improving...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Awards for June 2003
Prudential Spirit of Community Awards For: Personal initiative, creativity, effort, impact and personal growth; each winner receives $1,000.By: Prudential Financial.Winners Include: Laura...
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Congress
Youth workers and the youth they serve may lose their voices on local work force investment boards, as youth councils would be...
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Opinion
Rally for AmeriCorps
Since the 1993 passage of Bill Clinton’s national service legislation that set up the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the...
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Grants
Grants Awarded for June 2003
Kresge FoundationP.O. Box 3151Troy, MI 48007(248) 643-9630www.kresge.org • The Devereux Foundation, Villanova, Pa., $700,000 to build a stabilization center.• Goodrich-Gannett Neighborhood Center,...
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Opinion
A New ‘To Do’ List For Youth Work
Why do you make a personal “to do” list? To get things done. To set priorities and work efficiently. To hold yourself...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
I Can Be Polite—If the Situation Calls for It (and)
The Importance of Good Manners Should youth workers stress “manners” among the youth they serve? No kid wants to be told to...
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Opinion
Letters to the Editor for June 2003
Ex-Panther Is No HeroJohn W. McCullough, Executive DirectorNew Justice Conflict Resolution Services Syracuse, N.Y. I am deeply troubled by your laudatory article...
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Opinion
Kids, Talk to Your Grownups
“Talk to your kids about” drugs, violence and sex, urge various advertisements featuring West Wing celebrities, drug czars and other panacea-types. But...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
News Briefs for June 2003
Foster Care Workers Charged in Kids’ Deaths A county prosecutor in Michigan is making political points and shaking up the child protection...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for June 2003
Nonprofits A potential merger is in the works between Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL) and Idealist, a division of the New York-based...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
America’s Promise: 6 years, 5 promises and $53 million later
April marked the sixth anniversary of the Presidents’ Summit for America’s Future, held in Philadelphia. Needed or not, a gathering of more...
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Opinion
Still at Risk, but Not at Sea
Twenty years ago in April, the National Commission on Excellence in Education gave the country a wake-up call with the release of...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Press Watch for June 2003
Teen HerbicideMother Jones Dietary supplements, such as vitamins and sports performance boosters, are marketed to youth as natural and safe. The Dietary...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Pubs and Videos for June 2003
AbuseEmerging Practices In the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, by David Thomas, Christine Leicht, Candy Hughes, Amy Madigan and Kathy Dowell,...
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News
Report Roundup for June 2003
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Research
Research of Note for June 2003
Three new areas of focus for youth research show interesting and sometimes surprising results: the impact of requiring community service, the impact...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
International Language Camp
Portland, Ore.(503) 531-0451http://internationallanguagecamp.home.attbi.com Objective: To help children learn foreign languages and cultures through immersion. In a Nutshell: International Language Camp (ILC)...
