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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...

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...

News

Jerry Miller

BY HOLLIE I. WEST People in youth work are rarely neutral about Jerome G. Miller. “Probably the greatest reformer the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Very Briefly …

Bully Foes Pushed Around: Mary Harvey, founder of Prescott, Ariz.-based Safe Schools, Safe Students, is an eternal optimist. Since mid-fall her agency...

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Younger Americans, Act II

The 107th Congress brings bright prospects for the Younger Americans Act (YAA), a cash-rich proposal for youth work endorsed last September by...

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The $100 Million Club

A hundred million here, $77 million there-and that’s just the new money flowing toward the Atlanta-based Boys & Girls Clubs of America...

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Shepherd’s Watch

If Dubya is the preacher of those flocking to the faith-based standard, the senior deacon is former Indianapolis mayor Steve Goldsmith, who...

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Foundation Events

Youth organizing programs and initiatives will receive a big boost next month when $600,000 in grants launch the first joint effort of...

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National Groups

The U.S. program office of the Baltimore-based International Youth Foundation (IYF) is changing its name and modifying its mission. Located in the...

Old Hat?

While debate rages over youth-serving agencies and faith-based groups receiving 21st Century Community Learning Center grants, one fact is not much discussed:...

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