Youth Today
All posts tagged "Youth Development"
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Great Group Games for Kids: 150 Meaningful Activities for Any Setting
Great Group Games for Kids: 150 Meaningful Activities for Any SettingSusan Ragsdale and Ann SaylorSearch Institute Press/Independent Publishers Group223 pages. This...
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Report Questions the Value of Character Education
A nearly 700-page federal report says character education – a pillar of former president George W. Bush’s youth policy – does not...
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Research
Social Development Programs Don’t Result in Better Behavior
Efficacy of Schoolwide Programs to Promote Social and Character Development and Reduce Problem Behavior in Elementary School Children National Center for Education...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
3 Mentoring Studies
Over the past two decades policymakers began looking at schools as a delivery model for health and human services for students and...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
…Help Youth Who Have Experienced Violence
When violence occurs on the street or in the home, the impact on child witnesses is often overlooked by busy police, parents...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Promise Neighborhood Winners Revealed
The Obama administration on Tuesday named 21 winners in one if its most coveted youth-related grant programs: the Promise Neighborhoods Initiative. More...
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America’s Promise Names Best Places for Young People
100 Best Communities for Young People America’s Promise There are 30 new names among America’s Promise Alliance’s 100 Best Communities for...
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Closing a Community Helped the Kids
CHA Transformation: Children and Youth Urban Institute Closing down a troubled public housing community appears to have helped the children. The closing...
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Research
Making Sense of Mixed Findings About Mentoring
Review of Three Recent Randomized Trials of School-Based Mentoring: Making Sense of Mixed Findings Society for Research in Child Development This report,...
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News
Youth Credentials
Leicester, England – While a movement to help youths earn various forms of credentials is growing in the United States, a similar...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Does Early Child Care Affect Teen Behavior?
Earlier this year, a study that seemed to say something astonishing hit the news: that the quality of formal child care that...
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The Excitement and Pain of Competing for Promise Neighborhoods Money
With President Obama’s Promise Neighborhoods Initiative (PNI) generating enormous excitement – 339 applications were filed in June for just 20 grants –...
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News
The Legacy of a Slain Los Angeles Anti-Gang Worker
Ronald “Looney” Barron, a Los Angeles gang intervention worker killed in February when he interrupted a youth “tagging” a restaurant wall, is...
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News
Boy Scouts: 100 and Striving to Diversify
The Boys Scouts of America, hit by a 42 percent decline in membership since its peak year of 1973 and an $18.5...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Church to Help Recruit ‘Bigs’ for Black Youth
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA) is teaming with the African Methodist Episcopal Church to help get more African-American boys...
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Guest Opinion Essay
What Profession Are We In?
Editor’s Note: Peter Benson, CEO of the Search Institute and an expert on youth development, passed away last month after a year-long...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Struggling to Keep the Promise
The hope that greeted President Obama’s biggest youth initiative last year – replication of the Harlem Children’s Zone in communities around the...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Money for Promise Neighborhoods Cut Again
The news from Capitol Hill keeps getting worse for the Promise Neighborhoods Initiative (PNI) – one of President Obama’s signature new youth...
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News
BGCA Chief Shaken by Challenges to Her Compensation
Roxanne Spillett, CEO of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA), is so upset about questions regarding her approximately $1 million...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Social Innovation Fund Boosts Youth Programs
The Corporation for National and Community Service announced the 11 groups that will receive the first grants from its $50 million Social...
