Youth Today
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News
Youth Employment Councils Wobble
After a couple of years in operation, the Workforce Investment Board’s youth council in Yakima, Wash., is missing just one thing: a...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
News Briefs for July-August 2002
DARE Slashed in Hometown: The Los Angeles Police Commission has threatened to cut DARE, the substance abuse program that was founded in...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Awards for July 2002
2002 Casey Awards For: Individuals and organizations that provide leadership, resources and exemplary support for youth-led crime prevention efforts.By: Youth Crime Watch...
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Opinion
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...
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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:...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.”...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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► 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...
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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...
