Youth Today
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Fatherhood Impact
BY SUE BADEAU The Congressional Fatherhood Task Force may be responsible for one of the few youth-related pieces of legislation to survive...
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Missing Kids, Lost Caucus
One of the more active youth-related caucuses is the Missing and Exploited Children’s Caucus. A bipartisan group listing nearly 150 members on...
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Why a caucus?
Caucuses are essentially an adjunct to the formal party and rigid committee structure within Congress, and their rapid growth from the 1980s...
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Impact
BY SUE BADEAU While caucuses have no recognition in official congressional rules, no line-item budget and no official staff, they are often...
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Opinion
Leave No Child (or Family) Behind
Advocates for broader supports for children, youth and families have a common focal point: President George Bush’s tax cut proposal. Hailed by...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Does Welfare Reform Hurt Teens?
While researchers unveiled more evidence last month that welfare reform helps poor parents and children in many ways, a dark cloud stands...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
STDs Discriminate
New findings dramatically demonstrate how the spread of sexually transmitted diseases differs by age, gender, race and geography. The U.S. Centers for...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Briefly…
Record-Setting Child Support – Before leaving town in January, outgoing U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala announced that...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Juvenile Crime Law Gutted
A California appeals court took the heart out of the Proposition 21 laws passed less than a year ago, striking down the...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Sex Charges Prompt Youth Group Changes
An Orthodox Judaism panel investigating teenage sex abuse allegations against a 50-year-old New Jersey rabbi and veteran youth worker blamed “profound errors...
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► Newsmakers
Answered Prayers
Advocates of national service were thrilled when Bill Clinton made the expansion of federal support for community service opportunities a centerpiece of...
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Bad Form on Welfare Reform
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you – and flies you, and puts you up in a nice hotel. When members...
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Foundation Fluctuations
The Denver-based Gill Foundation (assets $240 million) has announced the impending departure of executive director Katherine Pease. Founded in 1994 by Quark...
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Right On, Right Now!
Bob’s back! Not that Bob Woodson, Sr., president-for-life of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, ever left D.C. But with a Democrat...
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On the Move
Where are they now? Former President Clinton, looking for a new office, has bumped New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services from...
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Promising Practices: Supporting Transition of Youth Served by the Foster Care System
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement, Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine National Resource Center...
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► Reports
Crossroads: New Directions in Social Policy American Public Human Services Association
“The Bush administration and the 107th Congress are presented with a compelling opportunity,” this report begins, “to eliminate outmoded federal rules and...
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The Sexual Victimization of College Women National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice
This report gives the results of the National College Women Sexual Victimization Survey, conducted by the National Institute of Justice in the...
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News
A Peek at President Bush’s Youth Policy
The federal government’s biggest after-school initiative dangles over the heads of youth-serving organizations like a pi-ata gorged with cash but hung too...
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Opinion
Clinton & Youth: 1 Good Year, 7 Bad
Great Democratic presidents like Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy extolled young people as a national inspiration deserving expansive investment. Bill Clinton led...
