Youth Today

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...

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...

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...

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,...

News

Youth Credentials

Leicester, England – While a movement to help youths earn various forms of credentials is growing in the United States, a similar...

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 –...

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...

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...

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...

Opinion

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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Ten Ways to Promote Educational Achievement and Attainment Beyond the Classroom

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...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Hundreds Vie for Promise Neighborhoods Planning Grants

More than 300 organizations are vying for 20 planning grants worth $500,000 each through the Obama Administration’s Promise Neighborhood initiative, data released...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier