All posts tagged "Advocacy"

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  Donna Departing

  Donna Shalala, the longest-serving secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services since its establishment under Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Teen Sex Ad Campaign Pregnant With Criticism

  Catcalls, raspberries, howls of protest and various random drubbings have greeted a provocative new teen sex advertising campaign designed to do what...

• 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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  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...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Columbine and the People

  Last year’s slaughter at Columbine High School hasn’t been the unifying Pearl Harbor Day for youth violence prevention that most Americans had...

• 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...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Demonizing Youth Isn’t ‘Advocacy’

  America’s major institutions, succumbing to cold, Reagan/Clinton-era politics, have profoundly let young people down. A recent avalanche of cloned reports by interest...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  With Washington Stalled On Guns, Youth Take Action

  “March Madness” took on a new meaning with last month’s hard-edged gun law rhetoric from President Clinton and the National Rifle Association,...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• News

  Young Advocates Sway Washington

  The First Lady was coming to talk with some youths, and the youths had an agenda that was going to shock her....