Youth Today
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
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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...
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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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Fatherhood and Television: An Evaluation of Fatherhood Portrayals on Prime Time Television
To determine what messages about fatherhood children are likely to find on television, the NFI reviewed every prime time television show on...
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An Investigation of Philadelphia’s Youth Aid Panel: A Community-based Diversion Program for First-time Youthful Offenders
Nina Chernoff and Bernardine Watson Public/Private Ventures This report shows that Philadelphia’s Youth Aid Panel (YAP) initiative, established by the city’s District...
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National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families, State and Community Substudy
This report, prepared by Abt Associates for HHS, finds that because of the strong economy, more parents working and more left-over TANF...
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New Rules, New Roles: Preparing All Young People for a Changing World
This report profiles six successful programs in career exploration and preparation for young people. Youth and youth-serving institutions today, the report says,...
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Handle With Care: Serving the Mental Health of Young Offenders Coalition for Juvenile Justice 2000 Annual Report
Between 50 percent and 75 percent of incarcerated youth have “diagnosable” mental health disorders, and few juvenile detention facilities are properly equipped...
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Research
Foster Care and Mental Health Mental Health Care Utilization and Expenditures by Children in Foster Care
Jeffrey Harman, Ph.D., George Childs, Kelly Kelleher, M.D., M.P.H. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, November 2000, Vol. 154 Free copy from...
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Research
Drinking Now, Problems Later Natural Course of Alcohol Use Disorders from Adolescence to Young Adulthood
Paul Rohde, Peter Lewinsohn, Christopher Kahler, John Seeley and Richard Brown Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry January 2001,...
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Research
Linking Spouse and Child Abuse
Emiko Tajima, Ph.D. Child Abuse & Neglect, November 2000, Vol. 24, pp. 1383-98 Free copy from Dr. Tajima at University of Washington...
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Research
Girls and Sports Medical Concerns in the Female Athlete American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Sports Medicine and Fitness Pediatrics
September 2000, Vol. 106, pp. 610-613 Summary version at www.aap.org/advocacy/archives/septath.htm With all the concern about couch potatoes, let’s start by emphasizing that...
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Research
Striving to Succeed, Daring to Fail
The achievement gap between young black and white Americans is like the Energizer Bunny: It keeps going and going and going. And...
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Opinion
Striving to Succeed, Daring to Fail
The achievement gap between young black and white Americans is like the Energizer Bunny: It keeps going and going and going. And...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Youth Work On Ice
ANAHEIM, Calif. An unusual twist in youth development work began modestly in 1977 when Neal Henderson decided to use his driveway outside...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Burned Out? Take $100K and Call Us in the Morning
BY AMY BRACKEN New York City, youth worker Barry Joseph of Global Kids uses a New Voices fellowship to design a...
