Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Press Watch for July 2003
Bellingham Cops Train to Be Foster Parents for Vulnerable KidsSeattle Post-Intelligencer Police in Bellingham, Wash., plan a new program that prepares officers...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Pubs and Videos for July-August 2003
Abuse Sins of the Fathers: A Look at the Relationship between Child Abuse and Delinquency, by Dane Elmar Petersen, provides insight for...
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Opinion
Summertime: Is the Living Too Easy?
Many of the young people that youth agencies serve are about to lose a lot of what they’ve spent the past nine...
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Research
Research of Note for July-August 2003
Several studies of youth have made headlines in recent months, but the research may be more complicated than it seems at first...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Stone Soup Nutrition and Fitness Program
Encino, Calif.(818) 905-1441www.stonesoupchildcare.org Objective: Helping low-income children learn how to avoid obesity and other food-based health problems. In a Nutshell: Kids from...
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News
Football Star Scores in Washington
At a time when after-school and AmeriCorps programs face proposed federal cuts that could eliminate services for untold thousands of children, the...
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News
Plastic Card Tells A Dangerous Truth
Chicago—A couple years ago, managers at the Gen. Robert E. Wood Boys & Girls Club began begging for money to hire more...
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News
United Kingdom
Leicester, England—More kids are lighting up joints at some youth clubs here, and youth workers who confront them are getting a new...
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News
AmeriCorps Hang-up Leaves Agencies Dangling
With youth-serving agencies around the country bracing for major losses in volunteer staff because of a financial crisis at AmeriCorps, Congress stepped...
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News
Juvenile Justice
A new federal study has stirred the debate over minority over-representation in the juvenile justice system by finding no evidence of racial...
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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...
