Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Enterprise Not Enough
Even the most enterprising of national groups that are not youth-specific can find launching, managing and sustaining a youth development program an...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
National Nonprofits
Grace Reef, for the past four years director of intergovernmental relations at the Children’s Defense Fund, is moving to Capitol Hill. She’ll...
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Opinion
Policy, Policy, Policy
I hate receptions and cocktail parties. One reason is that I am basically anti-social. Another is that I hate the inevitable question,...
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► Reports
Untapped Potential: State Earned Income Credits and Child Poverty Reduction
By Amy Bracken This research brief says the federal Earned Income Credit (EIC) lifts 2.5 million children out of poverty, and...
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► Reports
Less Cost, More Safety: Guiding Lights for Reform in Juvenile Justice
American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) Following up on AYPF’s June 2000 report, “Less Hype, More Help: Reducing Juvenile Crime, What Works –...
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Research
Research Watch AIDS and Young Women
AIDS is a growing threat to women, including teenage girls. A new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Summer Jobs Outlook Cold for Poor
Cincinnati, a hotspot of urban unrest last month, faces “a mess of a summer,” forecasts a local youth worker who laments that...
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News
A DAREing Rescue
They had sparred long distance through newspapers and on TV, but they met for the first time over coffee and bagels in...
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Anti-Drug Programs that Work?
Project Northland Developed by University of Minnesota, this program targets sixth- through eighth-graders and seeks to delay the age at which teens...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Controlling My Temper
By Christopher A. Bogle, 17 When I got back to my group home one Friday night, a staff member named Robert was...
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Research
Couch Potatoes Beware
The debate about the impact of TV violence continues (see Research Watch, Feb. 2001), but there is growing evidence that TV viewing...
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Opinion
Now Try This
Two teens are dead and 18 are wounded in more school shootings, this time in surburban San Diego. The carnage revealed some...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
I Don’t Know What the Word ‘Mommy’ Means
By Youniqiue Symone, 16 If you looked at any of my baby pictures, you would see a happy little girl who was...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
The President’s Budget & Kids
By Sue Badeau In February President George W. Bush unveiled his budget “blueprint” for Fiscal Year 2002. The 175-page document presents his...
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Opinion
Lies, Damn Lies, and ‘Youth Risk’ Surveys
Scary survey finding: 300,000 (says the Hamilton Fish National Institute) to 350,000 (says the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health) youths take...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Supreme Court Hears ‘Good News’
A U.S. Supreme Court verdict is being awaited following the recent oral argument over a case involving a faith-based youth program that...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Sports Score Big in ERs
Sports-related injuries account for some 25 percent of emergency room visits for young people ages five to 24, according to a report...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Advocates Push Education for Homeless Youth
A coalition of nine homeless and child advocacy organizations is pushing a bill to expand the education of homeless children and youth. They’re...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Briefly…
Accidental Jail Sentence – After it was revealed that a 13-year-old Atlanta boy spent 43 days in Fulton County jail for shoplifting...
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► Newsmakers
Trumpeting For Fatherhood
It has been a sterling year so far for fathers, at least for GOP advocates of pro-father policies. But first we note...
