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Web Watch for March 2002

Teen Hoopla: Say What?www.ala.org/teenhoopla/saywhat/index2.htmloffers a forum for youths to express their views on issues ranging from the Sept. 11 attacks to school...

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Honors for February 2002

Youth Leadership Award For: Leaders whose work reflects the importance of cultural understanding and education in improving peoples’ lives. By: Academy for...

Guest Opinion Essay

Sane School House Safety

No national youth policy issue is more off track than the effort to make schools safe for children and staff. A series...

Guest Opinion Essay

“Senior Year” Refreshes, ASH Chokes

I have never met a “typical teenager.” Sullen, alienated, immature, impulsive, rebellious, obnoxious, immortality-deluded, high-risk? I’ve encountered as many grownups (me, for...

News

The Preemies Are Alright

A study of people who were born prematurely sheds more light on the ever-amazing resiliency of kids to overcome trauma. The study...

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Cybercafe Crackdown

The Garden Grove, Calif., city council last month imposed new restrictions on cybercafes, which cater largely to youth and young adults, after...

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Vatican and Molesters

The Vatican has disseminated new rules for secret church-run courts to try priests facing allegations of molesting children. The letter, sent to...

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More Church Bad News

A jury last month convicted former Boston-area priest John Geoghan of molesting a 10-year-old boy. More than 130 people have accused Geoghan,...

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Newsmakers for February 2002

Foundations The New York-based Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s policy shift to focus on strengthening urban youth service agencies in the Northeast has...

Guest Opinion Essay

Wanted: New Words, New Policies

This just in: “Tween” has been chosen as the 2001 Word-of-the-Year by “Webster’s.” Prepubescent 9- to 12-year-olds are enough of a market...

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Press Watch for February 2002

AdvoCasey This special edition (fall 2001) of the Annie E. Casey Foundation magazine – titled, “Fostered or Forgotten? A Special Report on...

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Pubs and Videos for February 2002

Books After-school Building Effective Afterschool Programs, by Olatokunbo Fashola, takes readers through the process of modeling, creating and evaluating four types of...

Research

Research of Note for February 2002

This month’s Research Watch has some good news about teen pregnancy and potentially good news about foster care. Unfortunately, there are worrisome...

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Web Watch for February 2002

Civic Engagement Community Building Resource Exchangewww.commbuild.org links visitors to a large, regularly updated database of resources and information about innovative and...

Guest Opinion Essay

Betwixt and Between

In many people’s minds, welfare teens and teen parents are synonymous. But they’re not. The first group is much larger than the...

Research

Just Say No to Lice, but not to Nits

Lice inspections have become a fact of life in schools and children’s programs across the country, with children required to leave school...

News

America’s Longest Free-For-All

By Celeste Fremon Los Angeles The Los Angeles Free Clinic opened in 1967 during the Summer of Love, when kids from around the...

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Porn Wars

While reticent to discuss juvenile crime and its prevention, Flores is effusive when it comes to discussing pornography, which he refers to...

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2001 KIDS COUNT Data Book: State Profiles of Child Well-Being

By Amy Bracken In some regards, teens are doing better in almost all of the 50 states and the District of Columbia....

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Prospecting Among the Poor: Welfare Privatization

By Bill Berkowitz Applied Research Center The California-based Applied Research Center has been one of the most aggressive opponents of welfare reform, saying...