Youth Today
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News
Young Vote Inches Up, Falls Short
Efforts to involve more young people in last month’s elections reaped some moderately good results: The precipitous decline in voting among young...
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Research
Teen Pregnancy Drops, But Why?
Pregnancy rates among teenagers are at the lowest they’ve been since the government began recording such data in 1976, according to a...
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News
America’s Promise Mentoring Impact is Foggy in Philly
PHILADELPHIA—It is a mentor’s mecca, this town of cheesesteaks, hoagies and sticky buns. That was one of the...
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News
Charter Schools: CBOs’ Risky Pot o’ Gold
LOWELL, Mass.—To understand the enormous benefits of becoming a charter school, consider the Lowell Middlesex Academy: Five years ago, as an...
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Opinion
Editorial
The recent White House conference on Teenagers was, for a White House that has hosted memorable events over the past two centuries,...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
GARY MALLON
“Let me tell you something, honey. You’re a big queen yourself and you need to come out of the closet.” A fine...
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Opinion
Imbedding Positive Youth Development
In recent years many of us who have been laboring in the vineyards of youth work have come to embrace positive youth...
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News
Chopping Block: The Rise And Fall of Title XX
BY SUE BADEAU Title XX, the Social Services Block Grant, is one of the oldest block grant programs to...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Identity and Prejudice
BY JAMES DOLLISON Growing up biracial was not the easiest thing to do, yet I prevailed. I learned how to accept myself...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Identity and Prejudice
BY ERIC LOUIE My girlfriend and I circled the food vendors at a street fair in Oakland’s Chinatown, waiting like vultures for...
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News
Making the Case: Linking Youth Development and Positive Psychology
Now and then you have the unsettling experience of hearing your thoughts come out of someone else’s mouth. This is the experience...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Strategy Worked for Seniors, Can It Work For Kids?
Before the Older Americans Act in 1965, there was no Medicare, no meals-on-wheels, no multi-purpose senior centers – all now part of...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
White House Gathering Plugs Positive Youth Development
The Clinton administration held the first-ever White House Conference on Teenagers last month and put the accent on the positive – forging...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
No CHIPs Off the Uninsured Kids Block
Several new reports on changes in public and private health insurance have put a frown on the faces of those striving to...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Joe Camel is Dead, His Spirit Lives
Joe Camel was put to rest 18 months ago, but Big Tobacco’s practice of targeting youth may be alive and well. Since...
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Moms Ring Bell
The Million Mom March held in Washington, D.C., and 15 other cities on Mother’s Day rang up impressive numbers – the aggregate...
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Mott-ly Alliance
In the growing field of the after-school programming, all roads, it seem, lead to Flint, Mich., home of the Charles Stewart Mott...
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National Nonprofits
Give that man a cigar. That, for the tobacco industry, at least, is the reaction to the departure of Chuck Wolfe as...
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Sub Minimum Wage Rewarded
Interns, take heart. Your job running that copier won’t last forever – just for the semester. Consider the case of David Brown,...
