Youth Today
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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► 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
