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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

The Pros and Cons of Single-Sex High Schools

By Liesel Haskell, 17 My alarm clock is blaring – it’s 5:30 a.m. I jump out of bed and head for the...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly at a Boys’ School

By Richard Kwon, 17 After a long night of working on an essay, I woke up late the next day and had...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Teen Births Hit a New Low

The national teen birth rate hit a record low in 1999, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Kids Grade Adults

Call it divine retribution for kids, or at least 1,028 of them. Chicago’s Uhlich Children’s Home got 12- to 19-year-olds together to...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Websites That Invade Youth Privacy Take Hits

On the same day the Federal Trade Commission settled its first case under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, the Center for...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Feds Name Model Anti-Drug Programs

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) more than doubled its list of model substance abuse prevention programs last month...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier