Youth Today
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Briefly …
New Jersey Town Loses Tolerance – After 50 suspensions and police files created in six weeks for children – mostly between kindergarten...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Juvenile Peep Show
Welcome to the voice mail system of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Perversion Prevention. Press x1 for grantmaking guidelines for programs...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Juvenile Peep Show
Welcome to the voice mail system of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Perversion Prevention. Press x1 for grantmaking guidelines for programs...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Porn Wars
While reticent to discuss juvenile crime and its prevention, Flores is effusive when it comes to discussing pornography, which he refers to...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Kangaroo Court
That 1983 study (the comical “Images of Children, Crime and Violence in Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler” magazines by Judith Reisman) received $734,371...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Right Guy
If President Bush was searching for a superbly qualified candidate to run OJJDP, he needed to look no further than his own...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Faith Assumption
On May 20 President Bush was at Notre Dame trying to pump more gas into his compassionate conservative domestic agenda and his...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
National Groups
Quickly making his mark on the Corporation for National Service is former Indianapolis mayor Steven Goldsmith, now an unpaid special assistant to...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Radical Idea Serves Youth, Saves Money
Memphis, Tenn. In 1995, Patrick Lawler, CEO of one of Tennessee’s largest youth service contractors, approached state officials with a radical idea:...
