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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

Hewlett’s State of Mind

Yet another foundation appearing poised to look right past statewide child and youth advocacy organizations in favor of national groups is the...

Opinion

Journalists, Teach Thyselves

“Summer learning loss” is the term coined more than a decade ago to highlight the impact of summer idleness on student achievement....

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Press Watch for July-August 2002

Cultural Divide Over Parental DisciplineThe New York Times Cultural differences concerning corporal punishment are causing problems for some immigrant families in the...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Pubs and Videos for July-August 2002

Education Building a Community School, by The Children’s Aid Society, is a practical manual for school reform. The book provides innovative suggestions...

Opinion

Fund-Raising Advice from Both Sides of the Desk

I remember those halcyon days when I didn’t have to worry about where money came from. I started my youth work career...

Opinion

Wanted: Adult Safety Nets For Foster Youth

By Mark Redmond I recently attended a two-day training seminar, “Permanent Family Connections for All Adolescents,” which issued some challenging words to...

► Reports

How Welfare and Work Policies for Parents Affect Adolescents

This report uses data collected in studies of parents involved in 16 welfare and employment programs to demonstrate some shortcomings of the...

► Reports

Tobacco Industry Youth Smoking Prevention Programs: Protecting the Industry and Hurting Tobacco Control

Examinations of tobacco documents show that the aim of youth initiatives by tobacco companies is self-serving and potentially detrimental to smoking prevention...

► Reports