All posts tagged "Youth Development"

• ► Reports

  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

  Weekly Notes: Federal JJ Issues Languishing; Funds for Mentoring Available; and more

  Hope everyone’s summer is going swimmingly, pun intended! Notes has been on hiatus while Youth Today wraps up the final print edition...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Still Waiting for Summer Jobs Bill, States Tap TANF Funds for Programs

  While as much as $1 billion in funding for a national summer youth employment program  continues to languish in Congress, a growing...

• ► Reports

  U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study: Psychological Adjustment of 17-year-old Adolescents

  Pediatrics   Children raised since birth in lesbian-mother families display healthy psychological adjustment and outperform their heterosexual-raised counterparts in some areas, according...

• Indie Monitoring Unit Shines Light on Maryland JJ

  About 15 states now have some sort of child advocacy office, an entity charged with monitoring the conditions and/or outcomes of youths...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Boy Scouts Makes Volunteers Learn About Sex Abuse

  The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) last week ordered all of its volunteers to go through training about sex abuse, after years...

• ► Reports

  What’s Going on with Young People Today? The Long and Twisting Path to Adulthood

    Richard A. Settersten Jr. and Barbara Ray; The Future of Children This report takes a look at what its researchers call...

• Book Reviews

  Saving Boys

    Wes Moore Two African-American boys are born into poverty in Baltimore. By coincidence, both are named Wes Moore. Both are attracted...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Homeboy Industries Lays Off Most of Staff

  Homeboy Industries, the nation’s most famous jobs program for gang-involved youth, laid off  300 people, three-quarters of its staff, yesterday because of...

• News

  The Flip Side to Black Lists

  This story from Saginaw, Mich., touches on both stories in the May edition of Youth Today about hiring and supervision of youth...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Whatever Happened to Youth Development?

  When something occurs once, it’s a phenomenon; twice, it’s a pattern; three times, a definite trend. Well, three times in as many...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  More is Better

    What’s better than a theoretically sound, research-tested, carefully implemented prevention program to reduce risky adolescent behaviors? An integrated mix of several...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Building Character from the Start: 201 Activities to Foster Creativity, Literacy, and Play in K-3

    Susan Ragsdale and Ann SaylorSearch Institute Press151 pages. $29.95 paperback with CD. Applying youth development strategies to children from kindergarten through...

• News

  Feds to Job Corps Sites: No Ifs, Ands, Pools or Golf Courses

  A strict interpretation of Recovery Act rules has halted a pair of renovation projects at Job Corps sites that could have provided...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  The SPOT (Supporting Positive Opportunities with Teens)

    St. Louis(314) 535-0413http://thespot.wustl.edu Objective: Provide a free, one-stop, easily accessible drop-in center for youth that can serve their health, social support...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  … Provide Effective Peer Support Services to Teens

    Life Line: Students in training to be LifeSavers peer counselors discuss a “lifetime timeline.” Photo: Ted Crail Judy Ashby found that...

• ► Reports

  The Social Security Administration’s Youth Transition Demonstration Projects: Implementation Lessons from the Original Projects

    Mathematica Policy Research Inc. This report presents the findings of the Social Security Administration’s implementation of seven original Youth Transition Demonstration...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Office of Urban Affairs

  http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/oua/ The White House offers a new page for its Office of Urban Affairs website that chronicles the office’s activities. Users will...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Feds Name New National Job Corps Director

  Edna Primrose, a longtime youth worker and Job Corps administrator, has been named national director of Job Corps, according to a memo...