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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Younger Americans Act Gets an Alaskan Boost

Supporters of the Younger Americans Act (YAA), introduced into the House as HR17 on the first day of the session this year,...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Compassionate Conversion

“Of all the survivors of the Clinton era, the most unlikely may be AmeriCorps, the administration’s ‘national service’ program.” So wrote Les...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Bush League

In late June Wade Horn, President Bush’s nominee to be assistant secretary for children and families in the Department of Health and...

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Lessons from the Street and Unequal Protection: Corrupted Democracy

The White House Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives was launched in the hope that “spiritual approaches can succeed where secular...

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Critical Choices: Making Drug Policy at the State Level Drug Strategies

This report outlines the needs and roles that state governments must play in reducing the demand for drugs through treatment and prevention...

Guest Opinion Essay

YAA: More Important Than You Think

Convinced that the Younger Americans Act (YAA) is the legislative marker that could finally put youth development on the map? You are...

Guest Opinion Essay

Battle Stations

When the 107th Congress convened in January, supporters of positive youth development had great hopes for the Younger Americans Act (YAA), unveiled...

News

Juvenile Crimes Tiptoe Into Congress

Last year at this time, opinions about proposed juvenile justice legislation were splashed across newspapers, flashed on television screens and hotly debated...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Porn Wars

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

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Kangaroo Court

That 1983 study (the comical “Images of Children, Crime and Violence in Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler” magazines by Judith Reisman) received $734,371...

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A National Youth Development Agenda: Public Policy Positions of the National Collaboration for Youth

By Amy Bracken This publication outlines the positions and policy recommendations agreed upon by the D.C.-based National Collaboration’s 39 member organizations. The...

Guest Opinion Essay

A Taxing Summer Ahead?

Congress is debating domestic taxation and spending priorities for next year and beyond. The debate has narrowed to two choices: Cut taxes...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Taxing Days for Younger Americans Act

The top priority for new federal legislation for youth service agencies in the 107th Congress is the Younger Americans Act (YAA). The...

Guest Opinion Essay

Policy, Policy, Policy

I hate receptions and cocktail parties. One reason is that I am basically anti-social. Another is that I hate the inevitable question,...

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Less Cost, More Safety: Guiding Lights for Reform in Juvenile Justice

American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) Following up on AYPF’s June 2000 report, “Less Hype, More Help: Reducing Juvenile Crime, What Works –...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

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Accidental Jail Sentence – After it was revealed that a 13-year-old Atlanta boy spent 43 days in Fulton County jail for shoplifting...

Impact

BY SUE BADEAU While caucuses have no recognition in official congressional rules, no line-item budget and no official staff, they are often...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Briefly…

Record-Setting Child Support – Before leaving town in January, outgoing U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala announced that...

News

A Peek at President Bush’s Youth Policy

The federal government’s biggest after-school initiative dangles over the heads of youth-serving organizations like a pi-ata gorged with cash but hung too...

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