Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
CSAP: From Shut Up to Shut Down
“Shut the f**k up, bitch!” That one ill-mannered and vulgar sentence has propelled the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) from a...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Racicot Out, Wofford In at America’s Promise
Promise not to tell, but America’s Promise – The Alliance for Youth (AP) had one ally too many over the past year....
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Innovative Inca
An almost seven-year tour at the Ford Foundation (assets: $14.7 billion) has ended for Inca Mohamed, a program officer for children, youth...
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Opinion
Wanted: New Words, New Policies
This just in: “Tween” has been chosen as the 2001 Word-of-the-Year by “Webster’s.” Prepubescent 9- to 12-year-olds are enough of a market...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Press Watch for February 2002
AdvoCasey This special edition (fall 2001) of the Annie E. Casey Foundation magazine – titled, “Fostered or Forgotten? A Special Report on...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Pubs and Videos for February 2002
Books After-school Building Effective Afterschool Programs, by Olatokunbo Fashola, takes readers through the process of modeling, creating and evaluating four types of...
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Research
Research of Note for February 2002
This month’s Research Watch has some good news about teen pregnancy and potentially good news about foster care. Unfortunately, there are worrisome...
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News
The Day Starts at 3
by Richard Rothstein The art of Jacob Lawrence, the magnificent African-Amer-ican painter who wove color, shape, history and sociology into emotionally powerful...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Civic Education Project
Evanston, Ill.(847) 467-2572www.ctd.northwestern.edu/cep Objective: To promote civic responsibility among young people. In a Nutshell: CEP staff members work with teachers and...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Web Watch for February 2002
Civic Engagement Community Building Resource Exchangewww.commbuild.org links visitors to a large, regularly updated database of resources and information about innovative and...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
A Youth Worker’s Bumpy Road to National Success
ONE DAY, ALL CHILDREN… The Unlikely Triumph of TEACH FOR AMERICA and What I Learned Along The WayWendy KoppPublicAffairs, New York187 pp.,...
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Opinion
Betwixt and Between
In many people’s minds, welfare teens and teen parents are synonymous. But they’re not. The first group is much larger than the...
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Research
Dating and Other Dangers For High School Girls
Research Watch readers know that college campuses are not the safe havens that many adults envision, at least, not if you’re a...
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Opinion
Does ‘Adolescence’ Mean ‘Abstain’ from Everything’?
America’s ultimate prevention goal is that no teenager ever have sex, drink alcohol, witness explicit media, enjoy free time not rigidly structured...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
How a Song and A Prayer Opened Washington’s Wallet
No one pries money from the federal government for youth programs like Wintley Phipps. He sings. He sings to presidents. He...
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Research
Just Say No to Lice, but not to Nits
Lice inspections have become a fact of life in schools and children’s programs across the country, with children required to leave school...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
I’d Open Up About My Feelings
By Jonathan Smith, 15 After my brother and I were placed in foster care, we began to have visits with our...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Tell Them You Love Them
By Loletia Medina, 18 I was always jealous of my brother. I used to fight him over little things and I’d say...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
What’s Right Is Not Always Popular
By Chnita Campbell, 17 The first and most important piece of advice, which I still live by today, is: What’s popular is...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Person You Are Inside
By Qwonjit Nelson, 20 I sat down with my former self and talked with her over a cup of coffee at...
