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Fatherhood Groups Aim to Make Men ‘Secure Within Themselves’

Although around since 1994, the D.C.-based National Practitioner’s Network for Fathers and Families (NPNFF) is just beginning to hit its stride as...

News

In Milwaukee, Youth Worker Training Pays

Milwaukee, Wis.—Wanted: Youth workers to go to school to learn how to be better youth workers. Money a problem? We’ll pay. Time...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Positive Discipline Helps Misbehaving Kids, Study Says

By Amy Bracken At a time when politicians are promoting harsher treatment of juvenile offenders, the U.S. Department of Education (DoE) is...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

At Child Welfare Agencies, the Feds Are Coming

By Amy Bracken Federal officials will start visiting state child welfare agencies to see how they’re serving kids, under a more stringent...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Colorado Cops Keep Tabs On All Youth They Contact

Police in the county where the infamous Columbine High School shootings took place are now keeping a database on juveniles after every...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Passing on the Lessons of Youth and Community Work

By Andrew Hahn What do we know about the world of youth program and community change helpers? How can we guarantee that...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Promises, Promises …

By Sue Badeau President Clinton released his eighth and final budget proposal last month, laying out a plan that would shape America’s...

► Reports

Separate and Unequal: A report on educational barriers for homeless children and youth

Homeless children and youth are often denied their right to attend public schools, according to this report funded by the W.K. Kellogg...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

A Different Kind of Smart: A Study of Educational Obstacles Confronting Homeless Youth in New England

This study seeks to draw national implications from an eight-month study of educational obstacles facing homeless youth in four New England states:...

► Reports

Youth and Board Service: Experiences of Participation in Organizational Governance

The inclusion of youth on the boards of directors of youth-serving organizations benefits the youth clients, the youth board participants and the...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

A True Freedom Fighter

By Lance Bon I remember the first time I was in the Youth Guidance Center, [the juvenile lock-up] in San Francisco. I...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Me and My Mentor

BY TARA BONAPARTE When I first came to Saint Christopher’s, a residential treatment center for foster youth in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., I...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

My Mentor Taught Me to be A Real Reporter

BY CLAUDIA TEJADA The first time I visited my mentor was nerve-wracking. I pictured her as an obnoxious, rude, demanding editor who...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Abstinence Dominates School Sex Ed

Fewer than half of the country’s sex education classes offer information on where to get birth control (45 percent) or how to...

News

Boot Camps Get a Kick in the Head

By David J. Krajicek Military-style boot camps for juvenile offenders have proven to be no more effective and no less costly than traditional...

News

Conflicting Views On Dropout Rate

By Amy Bracken Two recently released reports offer conflicting views on U.S. education. The first, “Do You Know… The Good News About...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Conflicting Views On Dropout Rate

Two recently released reports offer conflicting views on U.S. education. The first, “Do You Know… The Good News About American Education?,” sponsored...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Executioners Kick Off 2000 with Juvenile Offenders

More juvenile offenders were executed in Virginia and Texas last month than have ever been executed in a single month in the...

Opinion

How About Education, Competence – and a Pay Raise?

By Mark Krueger Turnover and incompetence among youth workers are serious threats to youth development. Across the country employers are struggling to...

Opinion