Youth Today
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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:...
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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...
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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,...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Will the Good News Rule Supreme?
The Supreme Court decision in June to let a youth group hold Bible study in a Milford, N.Y., elementary school guaranteed –...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Younger Americans Act Gets an Alaskan Boost
Supporters of the Younger Americans Act (YAA), introduced into the House as HR17 on the first day of the session this year,...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Job Corps Delivers, Study Says
The most extensive study of Job Corps in nearly 20 years says the nation’s largest youth employment training program is worth the...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Compassionate Conversion
“Of all the survivors of the Clinton era, the most unlikely may be AmeriCorps, the administration’s ‘national service’ program.” So wrote Les...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Bush League
In late June Wade Horn, President Bush’s nominee to be assistant secretary for children and families in the Department of Health and...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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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► Reports
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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► Reports
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...
