Youth Today
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► Newsmakers
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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► Newsmakers
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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► Reports
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...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Congressional Earmarks Fatten Children and Youth Agency
In what may be the biggest chunk of pork ever fed to youth-serving organizations, the 2001 federal budget bestows at least $420...
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Research
Controversy: What Factors Predict Youth Trouble?
The recent headlines proclaimed the controversial news: Race, poverty, and single-parents are not the irrevocable harbingers of drug abuse, teen pregnancy and...
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Opinion
Not By Faith Alone
Just as Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bush the elder promoted volunteerism, President George W. Bush preaches the gospel of redemption through the...
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News
Jerry Miller
BY HOLLIE I. WEST People in youth work are rarely neutral about Jerome G. Miller. “Probably the greatest reformer the...
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New Congress, New Approach to Youth
BY SUE BADEAU The 107th Congress convened Jan. 3, and a flurry of proposed bills as well as new committee assignments signal...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
A Visit One Night
BY JULIA JAMES At approximately 11:45 p.m., a pair of NYPD police officers venture to my East Flatbush home. This will not...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
A Family Changed Forever
BY SOPHIA MOSTELLA Hash’im died on a Monday four years ago. He had just turned 20 a week before and he was...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Labor Burned Over Kids Cooking Rules
With more than half of all 15- to 17-year-olds employed in the retail trade industry-such as fast food, restaurants, and grocery stores-the...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
ACA Debates Youth In Prison
The American Correctional Association’s policies say that youths should not be confined in adult facilities, but the ACA has just put out...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Not-So-High Times For Teen Drug Use?
“We are greatly encouraged by the results of the MTF Survey,” said U.S. Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey in a statement on the...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Not-So-High Times For Teen Drug Use?
“We are greatly encouraged by the results of the MTF Survey,” said U.S. Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey in a statement on the...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
School-to-Work Sunsets, State Programs Rise
Although October will bring an end to the seed money provided by the federal School-to-Work (S-t-W) Opportunities Act of 1994, as of...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Haze Over Youth Anti-Tobacco Lessons
A study casting doubt on the effectiveness of anti-tobacco programs for youth has done something few would have thought possible: put anti-tobacco...
