Youth Today
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Congress’s Anonymous “Healthy Youth Prevention Program” ($100,000)
The names of actual groups or programs in the criminal justice, education and social service sectors directly funded by Congress amply illustrate...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Grants Awarded for March 2002
The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health 770 Welch Rd., Ste. 350Palo Alto, CA 94304(650) 497-8365www.lpfch.org • Asian American Recovery, San Mateo...
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News
Using Hip-Hop in Youth Programs
Back in 1998 a wonderful youth program in Brooklyn, El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice, came under the spotlight of critical...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Connecting With a Caring Adult
A caring adult can make a huge difference in a teen’s life. Here, two young writers describe how this kind of relationship...
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Opinion
Ignorance on School Security
Kenneth S. Trump, PresidentNational School Safety and Security ServicesCleveland, OH Small Nonprofits As I read the February issue of Youth Today, I...
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Opinion
Go Global, Too
Rosemary Tisch, FounderKids Are SpecialFamily Education FoundationSan Jose, CA I just finished reading your [February] article, “U.S. Youth Programs Go Global.” Because...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
More Kids Insured; Trouble Ahead?
Health coverage for children in the United States reached a four-year high in the first half of 2001, the Centers for Disease...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Youth as Peacemakers
Some 1,200 youths marched through Northern Virginia Feb. 19 to emphasize the role of youth in preventing violence and crime. The march...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Will Drug Ads Bowl Kids Over?
Aside from watching football, humorous beer commercials and Britney Spears, Super Bowl fans were the first to glimpse the Office of National...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
News Briefs for March 2002
Gay Adoptions OK: Citing the estimated 9 million children in the United States with at least one gay parent, the American Academy...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for March 2002
Nonprofits After almost 30 years in operation, the Center for Community Change (CCC) has decided to plunge into the media game. The...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
USA Recycle Corps
In the beginning there was compassionate conservatism, which begat the Armies of Compassion, which begat the faith-based initiative, which begat the USA...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Not Quite Expired
Another life-after-death tale is taking wing among the former affiliates of Children’s Express (CE). The 26-year-old youth journalism enterprise’s D.C. headquarters crashed...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Expiration Expected
Hometown-girl-made-good Marian Wright Edelman, 62, is far from dead. But that hasn’t deterred Congress from approving two earmarks for the planned Marian...
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Opinion
Early and Sustained Supports Needed
Early investments have big payoffs. We know this from the High/Scope Perry Preschool Project in Michigan that is often credited for the...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Press Watch for March 2002
Child welfare nonprofit says give it timeTampa Tribune An experiment to privatize child welfare in two Florida counties isn’t going so well,...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Pubs and Videos for March 2002
Advocacy Children’s Rights: Policy and Practice, by John Pardeck, is a valuable tool for those who work in social services as well...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Forging 21st Century Partnerships
Now that the ink is dry on the recently reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), it’s time to examine the implications...
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► Reports
Role Models, Ethnic Identity, and Health Risk Behaviors in Urban Adolescents
A youth's role model often shares his or her gender and/or race, according to this survey conducted in Los Angeles.
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► Reports
Learning In Deed: The Power of Service-Learning for American Schools
At a time when students are increasingly disengaged from academics, they are becoming more involved in volunteer and community service activities, according...
