Leicester, England – While a movement to help youths earn various forms of credentials is growing in the United States, a similar...
Earlier this year, a study that seemed to say something astonishing hit the news: that the quality of formal child care that...
With President Obama’s Promise Neighborhoods Initiative (PNI) generating enormous excitement – 339 applications were filed in June for just 20 grants –...
Ronald “Looney” Barron, a Los Angeles gang intervention worker killed in February when he interrupted a youth “tagging” a restaurant wall, is...
The Boys Scouts of America, hit by a 42 percent decline in membership since its peak year of 1973 and an $18.5...
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA) is teaming with the African Methodist Episcopal Church to help get more African-American boys...
Editor’s Note: Peter Benson, CEO of the Search Institute and an expert on youth development, passed away last month after a year-long...
The hope that greeted President Obama’s biggest youth initiative last year – replication of the Harlem Children’s Zone in communities around the...
The news from Capitol Hill keeps getting worse for the Promise Neighborhoods Initiative (PNI) – one of President Obama’s signature new youth...
Roxanne Spillett, CEO of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA), is so upset about questions regarding her approximately $1 million...
The Corporation for National and Community Service announced the 11 groups that will receive the first grants from its $50 million Social...
As part of a larger effort to provide students with more successful educational experiences, this report offers suggestions to out-of-school-time staffers on...
More than 300 organizations are vying for 20 planning grants worth $500,000 each through the Obama Administration’s Promise Neighborhood initiative, data released...
Hope everyone’s summer is going swimmingly, pun intended! Notes has been on hiatus while Youth Today wraps up the final print edition...
While as much as $1 billion in funding for a national summer youth employment program continues to languish in Congress, a growing...
Pediatrics Children raised since birth in lesbian-mother families display healthy psychological adjustment and outperform their heterosexual-raised counterparts in some areas, according...
About 15 states now have some sort of child advocacy office, an entity charged with monitoring the conditions and/or outcomes of youths...
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) last week ordered all of its volunteers to go through training about sex abuse, after years...
Richard A. Settersten Jr. and Barbara Ray; The Future of Children This report takes a look at what its researchers call...
Wes Moore Two African-American boys are born into poverty in Baltimore. By coincidence, both are named Wes Moore. Both are attracted...