All posts tagged "Youth Development"

• News

  National Assembly Launches Portal on Social Welfare History

  The National Assembly has created a portal to historical websites on youth work and human services on its own web home. The...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Foundation Makes Noted Life Skills Training Curriculum Free for Schools, Youth Programs

  With state budget cuts forcing many school districts to skimp on any type of education that won’t appear on a standardized test,...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: The MacArth-nership; training program on services for crossover youth

  *** There are 368 days left in Obama’s first term, and there is still no nominee to serve as administrator of the...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  From the YT Archives: The Push for More L3Cs

  President Barack Obama spent part of his hour-long State of the Union address Tuesday discussing a partnership between business and academia aimed...

• Top Headlines: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  The Need for Developmental Competence for Adults working with Youth

  A New Mexico federal court judge recently received a complaint citing the following facts: a 13-year-old boy repeatedly belched in class.  While...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: Helpful tool to seek unlikely partners in philanthropy; psych meds in the news again; big upcoming events in D.C.; and more

  Notes is back after a week hiatus. We were going to post on Black Friday, but somebody pepper sprayed us in the...

• News

  Karen Mathis Leaving Big Brothers Big Sisters of America

  Note: This story was updated on Dec. 1 with more up-to-date information on the organization’s finances. Big Brothers Big Sisters of America...

• News

  A New Push for Youth Worker Development, Credentials

  A collection of youth work consultants and service providers has launched a fresh offensive at an old objective: Making the case for...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Notes from Juvenile Woodstock

  All this week, JJ Today is roaming the hallways and meeting rooms of the National Juvenile Justice Conference hosted by the Office...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  The Benson Index

  In 1963, federal economist Mollie Orshansky devised a formula for measuring income adequacy and poverty in this country. The measurement was named...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: Justice doles out grants; Casey’s shifting juvenile focus; Youth Justice Awareness Month; and more

  ***Day 988 of the Obama administration and still no nominee to serve as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...

• News

  Peter Benson, CEO of Search Institute, Dies at 65

  Peter Benson, the long-time CEO of the Minneapolis-based Search Institute, died yesterday at the age of 65 after a year-long battle with...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Community College Groups Receive $500 Million in Job-Training Grants

  Almost $500 million in grants to increase graduation rates and provide new job-specific community college programs targeted at unemployed workers were announced...

• News

  Kondracke to Retire as Head of America’s Promise

  Marguerite Kondracke, president and CEO of America’s Promise Alliance, announced today that she plans to retire and the organization has begun a...

• Book Reviews

  Drop That Knowledge: Youth Radio Stories

  Drop That Knowledge: Youth Radio StoriesElisabeth Soep and Vivian ChávezUniversity of California Press224 pages. Most National Public Radio (NPR) listeners have heard...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Resources: Search Institute’s 40 Developmental Assets Posters

  Search Institute’s 40 Developmental Assets are widely used among youth workers as a model for nurturing youth development. Alongside books that provide...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Resources: I Noticed! Notes

  With these printed notes, adults can give quick, positive feedback to young people when they do the right thing. On four pads...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Resources: What’s Your Spark? Spark Catchers

  These fire-colored mini-brochures are a nifty tool to engage teens in discovering their own “spark” – personal passions, talents or interests that...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Resources: You Can Make a Difference for Kids Booklet

  This eight-page, glossy color booklet (8½ inches square) summarizes the 40 Developmental Assets concept to inspire adults in all walks of life...

• Two Cases from Detroit Show Child Welfare’s Double Standards

  In a previous column I wrote about the effort to pretend that the racial bias that can be found in every other...