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Opportunity Up in Smoke

Adults, particularly those holding or aspiring to political office, are fond of lamenting the purported shortcomings of today’s young people. Solutions to...

Opinion

Dead People vs. Living Youth

Always ready to surprise with appalling public policy, this 107th Congress has been no disappointment. Consider the attention given to two issues:...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Grants Awarded for July 2002

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation503 S. Saginaw Street, Suite 1200Flint, MI 48502Phone: (810) 238-5651www.mott.org • Tufts University Nonprofit Sector Leadership Program, Medford, MA,...

Opinion

Make Colleges Work For the Community

By Andrew Hahn What prominent institution works as an occasional player in youth work but has the ability and resources to do...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Cops and Kids

Police and teens often have a difficult relationship. Many young people feel that police unjustifiably harass them. Police say they’re reacting to...

Opinion

Foster Kids Need A Bold Plan

By Betsy Krebs“When I was in foster care, no one talked to me about my future.” These words, typical of a former...

Opinion

Why College?

Donald T. Floyd Jr.President/ CEONational 4-H CouncilChevy Chase, MD I am writing in response to the article, “College-Linked Training Spreads, But Does...

Opinion

Stopping Runaways

Erik LaursenPresidentStrength Based Services InternationalVirginia Beach, Va. I commend Harry Wilson (of the U.S. Family and Youth Services Bureau) for his viewpoint...

Opinion

What Are You People? On Dope? *

Protect our children!” cry the Lindesmith Center-Drug Policy Foundation and Common Sense for Drug Policy, groups opposed to the “War on Drugs.”...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Violence Spurs Gun Crackdown – In Europe

After a 19-year-old German shot and killed 16 people at his former school in April, European governments are moving to restrict the...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

AmeriCorps, VISTA Changes Include Boost for Workers

AmeriCorps volunteers would get more money for education and some VISTA volunteers could work at other jobs under a bill making its...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Lawmakers, Agency Staff Blasted for Losing Foster Child

Incompetence, indifference and dereliction of duty led to the disappearance of little Rilya Wilson from her Miami home, a Florida investigative committee...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Congress Moves on Charity, Gears for Welfare Debate

The Senate Finance Committee last month approved a scaled-down version of legislation to provide incentives to increase charitable giving. The measure includes...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Teen Births Down, But Latinas Lag

Birth rates for black and white teens (ages 15 to 19) continue to fall at a much faster pace than those for...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Reynolds Burned For Reaching Kids

It has not been an easy spring for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., the brightest target on the radar when it comes to...

► Newsmakers

Newsmakers for July 2002

A roundup of people on the move in the field of youth work. Nonprofits Sally Prouty begins her tenure this month as...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Stop the Campaign

Shortly after the Columbine high school massacre in April 1999, President Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton launched the National Campaign Against...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Caught in a Spider Web

The National Network for Youth (NFY) – the self-proclaimed standard-bearer of alternative humanistic values – has dumped Executive Director Brenda Russell in...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier