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Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Whacked By A Boys Club

When is a congressional earmark not an earmark, but a line item in the federal budget? When it’s the $60 million appropriated...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

National Nonprofits

Moving on to new challenges – not retiring, she insists – is Mildred Wurf, public policy director for Girls Incorporated. The dean...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Foundations

Departing from the John and James L. Knight Foundation (assets: $2.2 billion) after nine years is Community Initiatives Program Officer Linda L....

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Steady Walker

When Jim Walker was hired at the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa during the first year of a small federally funded project known as...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Recipe for Reaching Teens: Blend Research with the Real World

By Larry Hayes In 1995, the Carnegie Corporation churned out “Great Transitions,” an authoritative survey of the research on early adolescence. Here’s...

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Beyond the Two-Parent Family: How Teenagers Fare in Cohabiting Couple and Blended Families

The Urban Institute As the number of unmarried couples with children continues to increase, most teenagers living in cohabiting families are better...

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Less Cost, More Safety: Guiding Lights for Reform in Juvenile Justice

Identifying challenges faced by youth workers in juvenile justice programs, the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) recognized programs that achieve “notable successes...

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Lessons from the Street and Unequal Protection: Corrupted Democracy

The White House Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives was launched in the hope that “spiritual approaches can succeed where secular...

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First Installment of National Strategy for Suicide Prevention Unveiled: Goals and Objectives for Public, Private Sectors

United States Surgeon General Surgeon General David Satcher, flanked by leaders of the public and private suicide prevention community, unveiled his report...

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Legacy First Look Report 6: Youth Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke

This report, from the tobacco education foundation created by the national Master Settlement Agreement with the major tobacco companies, says more than...

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Critical Choices: Making Drug Policy at the State Level Drug Strategies

This report outlines the needs and roles that state governments must play in reducing the demand for drugs through treatment and prevention...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

The Hardy Life of Worst Practice

Much is made in the youth service field of “best practice,” as well it should be. Striving for positive results for young...

Opinion

YAA: More Important Than You Think

Convinced that the Younger Americans Act (YAA) is the legislative marker that could finally put youth development on the map? You are...

Opinion

“Character” Purists, Cleanse Thyselves

Americans hate adolescents and never hesitate to let them know it. How else do we explain March’s ugly rush to typecast all...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Chasing Daniel

Four-year-old Daniel Wilson was literally a handful. “It was all I could do to hold him,” says his 31-year-old father, DeWayne Wilson,...

Opinion

Battle Stations

When the 107th Congress convened in January, supporters of positive youth development had great hopes for the Younger Americans Act (YAA), unveiled...

News

Faith-Based Debate Stirs Britain

Leicester, England—President George Bush’s enthusiasm for enlisting faith groups to deliver more government-funded human services is spreading across the...

News

Juvenile Crimes Tiptoe Into Congress

Last year at this time, opinions about proposed juvenile justice legislation were splashed across newspapers, flashed on television screens and hotly debated...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier