“The adults got more out of having the students speak at the conference than the kids themselves.” So said veteran community organizer...
San Francisco—On the last day of a month-long summer program in life skills, 14-year-old Shedrick Milton left the cozy office of the...
Chicago, Ill.—Former congressional staffer Ron Haskins stood before a gathering here last month of some of the most notable researchers and advocates...
CEO Pay Rises As Staffs Shrink Despite the financial woes of the recession, a new report says that while staff sizes at...
Civic Engagement Millennial Manifesto: A Youth Activist Handbook, by Scott Beale and Abeer Abdalla, is a call to arms for members of...
African-American Her Rite of Passage: How to Design and Deliver a Rites of Passage Program for African-American Girls and Young Women, by...
Abuse Sins of the Fathers: A Look at the Relationship between Child Abuse and Delinquency, by Dane Elmar Petersen, provides insight for...
After School Promising Practices in Afterschool http://www.afterschool.org%20provides youth workers with a valuable resource that covers all aspects of creating or improving...
AbuseEmerging Practices In the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, by David Thomas, Christine Leicht, Candy Hughes, Amy Madigan and Kathy Dowell,...
The Seattle-based Casey Family Programs (CFP) in January unveiled its second major staff cutback within the past three months. In November, CFP...
Juvenile Justice Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center Onlinewww.jrsa.org/jjecis a valuable instrument for any juvenile justice worker. A collaboration between the U.S. Office...
Civic Engagement Suitcases for Kidswww.suitcasesforkids.orgis the website for the group founded by then-10-year-old Aubyn Burnside to collect suitcases for foster care...
Minneapolis—For more than a decade this city’s youth coordinating board has been hailed as a national model, winning an award from the...
When it comes to how foundations fund youth work, Gary L. Yates is a lonely guy. When Yates’ The California Wellness Foundation...
New York City—Want to divert a million dollars from a nonprofit agency that serves children? That’s what prosecutors say the recently indicted...
Feds After languishing in the Senate for 10 months, the appointment of John Robert Flores as administrator of the Office of Juvenile...
The Netherlands—When youth workers here teach the Quest life skills curriculum that they’ve adapted from the United States, they do not preach...
Books After-school Building Effective Afterschool Programs, by Olatokunbo Fashola, takes readers through the process of modeling, creating and evaluating four types of...
The inclusion of youth on the boards of directors of youth-serving organizations benefits the youth clients, the youth board participants and the...
One of D.C.’s more interesting gunsmoke duels is over. The shoot-out between Bill Novelli, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and...