Youth Today
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Nonprofits Warn About For-Profits
By Amy Bracken Are for-profit companies fit to serve youth? A group of the nation’s top nonprofits issued a warning last month...
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News
An Abrasive ‘Mother Teresa’ Says, ‘Drop The Guns’
LORAIN, Ohio—Re’Nee Gill’s service to kids came while she was saving herself. To understand her passion about stopping gun violence, go back...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Congressional Mystery: The Quest for Mount Hope’s Youth Center
As budget items go, this one seemed simple: “$3,000,000 for the Mount Hope Center for a youth program.” Given the enormity of...
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News
Welfare-to-Work Overhaul Boosts Fatherhood Groups
It took 20 phone calls to persuade him, but 21-year-old Julius Armstrong – a noncustodial never-married father – finally said, “I’ve got...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
$222 Million in Grants Target Poor Youth
Some 44,000 young people have been targeted by $222 million in Youth Opportunity grants aimed at getting them back to school, enrolling...
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News
Case Could Harm U.S. Kids Abducted to Foreign Lands
The Elian Gonzalez child custody case may thrill foes of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, but it may jeopardize the return of more...
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News
Youth Empowerment’s Spotty Gains
For today’s youth activists the era of considering teens as primarily passive recipients of adult guidance may seem like life from another...
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News
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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► 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...
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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:...
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► 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
