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Got Busted? On Drugs? In a Gang?

Getting arrested for violating the curfew here earns kids a police escort to court – a huge one, with a shiny wood...

Indy Builds a Front Porch, Gov. Bush Likes the View

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—If Texas Gov. George W. Bush becomes president, the White House may get a new twist on Harry Truman’s custom-made front...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Do Kids Count in Congress?

By Sue Badeau Members of Congress want us to believe that children are a very high priority. So day after day they...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Doing What It Takes to Survive

BY DEAN TORRES What does it take to put food on the table, put clothes on your back, and keep a roof...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Getting By on Crayon Money

Let me ask you something: Have you ever been ashamed of being on welfare? I know I have. I grew up knowing...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Columbine Reports Cite Media, Congress Culpability

On the first anniversary of the April 20, 1999 school shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., a flurry of reports,...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Top Weapon in Teen Smoking Is Teens

By Amy Bracken Less than a year after a bitter struggle with GOP lawmakers who threatened its very existence, Florida’s partly youth-driven...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Fatherhood Sites Get Help from U.S.

Ten states have been selected to participate in a waiver demonstration program designed to improve the opportunities of young, unmarried fathers to...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Anti-Alcohol Campaign Targets Younger Youth

In response to evidence that Americans are beginning to drink at younger ages, anti-alcohol forces are shifting their prevention efforts to younger...

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White House Wanderings

The White House is taking yet another crowd-pleasing spin or two around the crime and drug prevention track. In the Clinton administration’s...

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Girl Talk

Few question that much of the youth service field is pathetically underfinanced. So it is no surprise that those who follow the...

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Boy Talk, Too

While the girls’ groups have been busy caucusing, sewing on merit badges and powering around the Internet, the boys in the fatherhood...

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National Nonprofits

Holy Cow, yet another national board member has made the move from board member to full-time president. This time it’s the Englewood,...

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April Fool

Perhaps you were too busy on April 13th preparing to join an estimated 3 million young people for the 12th annual National...

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Iced @ COOL

Like, really not too cool. That’s the reaction to the abrupt departure of Melissa Kendrick, executive director of COOL – the Campus...

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Yearbook 2000: The State of America’s Children

There is one institution that we can depend on being there for our young people, says Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president...

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Safe & Smart: Research and Guidelines for Children’s Use of the Internet

With financial support from Microsoft Corporation and Children’s Television Workshop (creators of “Sesame Street”), and with guidance from the latter, the National...

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