Marina WintonChief Executive Officer“I Have a Dream” FoundationNew York, N.Y. In response to Bill Treanor’s “Nose Knows” column [September], I would like...
Sandra S. BennettDirectorNorthwest Center for Health & SafetyPortland, Ore. Regarding the viewpoint article by Robert Sharpe, “U.S. Drug Policy: Maximizing Harm Reduction”...
Sara Jumping Eagle Pine Ridge Reservation, S.D. I’m an Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge reservation [and] a pediatrician doing an adolescent...
An article in the September Youth Today, “Gun Safety Programs Take a Shot,” incorrectly stated the estimated number of children reached through...
Are black men more likely to go to prison than college? A new report from a Washington think tank says yes, but...
Congress should stop the Bush administration from letting states use funds from a children’s health program to insure needy adults, says a...
Juvenile death penalty opponents are heartened by recent signals that several U.S. Supreme Court justices are ready to rethink the executions. Justices...
Checking Up on Child Workers: The new head of Florida’s Department of Children and Families, Jerry Regier, said the beleaguered agency will...
Foundations After only a few months with the Ypsilanti, Mich.-based High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, Terry Langston got an offer he couldn’t refuse....
The slow-motion revamping of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (assets: $630 million) is finally gaining momentum.The New York-based foundation, led by former...
The Menlo Park, Calif.-based William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (assets: $9 billion) announced in May 2000 that it was planning to establish...
When the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (assets: $5 billion) gave $3 million in operating support and a $5 million endowment to set up...
Robert L. Woodson Jr., according to a spokesman at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), has “returned to private...
There is a new mantra on Capitol Hill: scientifically based research. The term is used more than 100 times in the No...
Losing Track of Children in State Care is National Problem Orlando Sentinel By failing to keep data on the number of missing...
At-Risk Kids No Disposable Kids, by Larry K. Brendtro, Arlin Ness and Martin Mitchell, suggests ways to reach children whom everybody else...
Here’s a story from the friendly skies. One day last summer, on a flight from Atlanta to New York, I came across...
Use of two drugs popular among youth – Oxycontin and Ecstasy – continued to increase in 2001, according to the newest version...
Researchers constructed models to assess what effect mother-child interaction had on the timing of a youth’s decision to have sex, while also...
After surveying officials in 1,121 jurisdictions of various sizes nationwide, the report indicates that multiethnic and female-inclusive gangs were on the rise...