Youth Today
All posts tagged "Youth Development"
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The Case for a Minimum Age in Juvenile Justice
There has been important and productive attention to increasing the maximum jurisdictional age for juvenile offenders to one’s 18th birthday. It is...
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Healthy Youth / Healthy Regions: Informing Action for the Nine County Capital Region (Calif.) and Its Youth
UC Davis Center for Regional Change, Sierra Health Foundation, and The California Endowment The study examines and documents the connections between youth...
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Research
National Guard Youth Academies: One Promising Option for Disconnected Youth
A new study suggests that a program run by the National Guard can help dropouts who are ready to reconnect and move...
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Three-Year Results of the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Evaluation
MDRC This report analyzes the results of the National Guard’s Youth ChalleNGe program, which targets high school dropouts between ages 16 and...
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News
Spillett to Retire as BGCA President, Clark Named Successor
Roxanne Spillett, whose nearly $1 million salary as head of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America sparked a congressional investigation of...
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Non-income Effects of Welfare Receipt on Early Childhood Cognitive Scores
Children and Youth Services Review New research conducted at the University of Missouri and Central Michigan University looks at the effect that...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
AED Finds Single Buyer, U.S. Programs Expected to Continue
The Academy for Educational Development is close to being acquired by major North Carolina nonprofit Family Health International (FHI), and, if the...
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News
Four AmeriCorps Teams Assist with Disaster in Joplin, Mo.
Stephanie Jackson says she never thought she would need the disaster portion of her AmeriCorps leadership training. But since a tornado struck...
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News
New Institute Will Offer Juvenile, Child Welfare Court Footage for Research and Training
A university and film production company are creating what both hope will become a repository for training juvenile justice and child welfare...
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Good Training for Principals Trickles Down
I served as the founding principal of The International High School @ Prospect Heights in Brooklyn for five and a half years....
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Mentor: The Kid and the CEO
Mentor: The Kid and the CEOTom Pace with Walter JenkinsMentorHope Publishing175 pages. Audiobook also available. Based on author Tom Pace’s experiences, this...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Parent, Teacher, Mentor, Friend: How Every Adult Can Change Kids’ Lives
Parent, Teacher, Mentor, Friend: How Every Adult Can Change Kids’ LivesPeter L. BensonSearch Institute Press198 pages. “Society does not have a youth...
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Federal Background Checks Vital for Youth Programs
Imagine you are a child having trouble feeling secure in your home environment. Or, maybe your parents are incarcerated. Or, perhaps, you...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
How We Changed Our Name
In 2009, the American Humanics board of directors moved forward to study changing the organization’s name. Perhaps it would have been easier...
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News
Even Harvard Agrees: Four-Year Colleges Aren’t for Everyone
The one American college perhaps most synonymous with traditional postsecondary ideals has issued a report championing community colleges over four-year schools in...
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Guest Opinion Essay
Let’s Help Youth Who Are in Doubt and in Debt
Once again, young people are bearing the brunt of our failure to monitor effectively the institutions they go to for help. You...
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What Are Business Leaders Saying about Workforce Readiness?
What Are Business Leaders Saying about Workforce Readiness? Corporate Voices for Working Families The vast majority of America’s business leaders believe investing...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Doth the Earmark Trough Runneth Dry?
The practice of “earmarking” federal money, a Congressional device with debatable impact on the field of youth work, may soon face extinction....
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Weekly Notes: PROMISE Act under new leadership; SCOTUS to look at juveniles questioned in schools; and more
***We already posted a piece today on Rep. John Kline and reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. The other...
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Youth Orgs Should Ride “Superman’s” Cape
I heard a colleague suggest that youth-serving agencies are trying to hitch their wagons to the education-reform train; well, more specifically, riding...
