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Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Web Watch for March 2004

Advocacy National Priorities Projecthttp://database.nationalpriorities.orgAn excellent research site for advocates seeking evidence to support their causes. Visitors can select a subject area...

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Federal Youth Programs and Policy Taken to Task

The Final Report of the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth, long awaited by youth policy mavens, was recently released with...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Press Watch for July 2003

Bellingham Cops Train to Be Foster Parents for Vulnerable KidsSeattle Post-Intelligencer Police in Bellingham, Wash., plan a new program that prepares officers...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

News Briefs for March 2003

Child Support Goes Plastic In another sign of how technology is changing youth services, parents collecting court-ordered child support in Colorado can...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Pubs and Videos For February 2003

Activities Looking Glass: A Positive Communication Work-Book, by Lynda Regan, Sally Jones and Carole Pelling, is a basic catalog of activities for...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Pubs and Videos for December 2002 – January 2003

Advocacy Children’s Rights: Policy and Practice, by John Pardeck, is an extensive tool to help readers advocate for children’s rights. Pardeck traces...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Press Watch for October 2002

Losing Track of Children in State Care is National Problem Orlando Sentinel By failing to keep data on the number of missing...

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Immigrant Youth Detained

A litany of accusations about the treatment of youths detained for illegal entry into the U.S. is propelling congressional legislation that would...

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YAA Snagged on Politics, Anthrax, Recession

Proponents of the Younger Americans Act are learning that even a popular bill with the right sponsors can remain inert in Congress,...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Bush Budget Offers Deaths and Resurrections

President George Bush’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2003 would gouge some youth programs to the point of extinction while boosting others...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Youth Jobs Program Gets Pink Slip

By Natalie Gardner Lake Village, Ark.—Federal dollars for a limousine ride and a manicure? Toyce Newton knows that what she did here...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Racicot Out, Wofford In at America’s Promise

Promise not to tell, but America’s Promise – The Alliance for Youth (AP) had one ally too many over the past year....

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

NAACP Youths Lead Hotel Boycott

The NAACP youth unit pledged to involve 5,000 youngsters in a 23-city boycott of the Adam’s Mark Hotel chain, kicking off the...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Petite Campaign

Another liberal child advocate is taking on the elusive task of launching and sustaining an explicitly political pro-kid organization. The taskmaster is...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Preserved In Idaho

Rural preservationists take note: The National Family Preservation Network’s nine-year odyssey from the Hunter College School of Social Work to the Maryland...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Advocates Push Education for Homeless Youth

A coalition of nine homeless and child advocacy organizations is pushing a bill to expand the education of homeless children and youth. They’re...

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Answered Prayers

Advocates of national service were thrilled when Bill Clinton made the expansion of federal support for community service opportunities a centerpiece of...

Guest Opinion Essay

Clinton & Youth: 1 Good Year, 7 Bad

Great Democratic presidents like Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy extolled young people as a national inspiration deserving expansive investment. Bill Clinton led...

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