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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

As Kids Do Better, Should CBOs Get Credit?

With across-the-board improvements revealed in this year’s “America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2001” report (see page 40), some observers think...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

NAACP Youths Lead Hotel Boycott

The NAACP youth unit pledged to involve 5,000 youngsters in a 23-city boycott of the Adam’s Mark Hotel chain, kicking off the...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

States Blow Smoke At Prevention Efforts, Study Says

Smoking tempers and words greeted a recent report claiming that just 5 percent of the $206 billion tobacco settlement with 46 states...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Petite Campaign

Another liberal child advocate is taking on the elusive task of launching and sustaining an explicitly political pro-kid organization. The taskmaster is...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Pork: Best Killed by Kindness

No, not the sputtering United Way, but the unraveling of Congress’ ill-advised practice of “earmarking” groups in the children and youth field...

► Reports

America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2001

Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics This annual statistical snapshot indicates several encouraging changes in the condition...

News

Satcher’s Sex Ed Prescription Hits ‘Wall of Ideology’

Will the United States ever reach a consensus on how to teach its youth about sex? It’s hard to see hope through...

Research

Smoking and Girls: A Deadly Mix

When we think of the dangers facing children, most adults think of violence, illegal drugs, drunk driving, teen pregnancy and AIDS. We...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Youths Create Teen Center, Knife Kills

By Frank KlimkoSumter, S.C. henever youth worker Barbara Brown drives her beige Toyota Corolla past the boarded-up brick building behind the...

Opinion

A Summit Too Sad

Somewhere in the bowels of the White House someone someday somehow will see the connection between the Presidents’ Summit for America’s Future...

News

America’s Longest Free-For-All

By Celeste Fremon Los Angeles The Los Angeles Free Clinic opened in 1967 during the Summer of Love, when kids from around the...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

CBO Access to Funds is Key in Education Bill

While the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) squeezes into a House-Senate conference committee with wildly disparate authorization levels,...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Economic Boom Leaves Youth Agency Jobs Empty

By Martha Nichols Boston—Last year Sargent House, a proposed 12-bed home for adolescent boys, looked like it had achieved youth work nirvana:...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

I Love and Hate My Job, Maybe

There is a tendency in youth work to either romanticize the task – “We’re saving kids, doing the Lord’s...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

New Funds for Older Foster Youth

The Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation and Seattle-based Casey Family Programs (CSF) have created the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative to help,...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier