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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Radio Personality Launches Mentoring Drive

Big Brothers Big Sisters is joining forces with popular radio personality Michael Baisden to amp up its mentor outreach efforts. (Look...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Los Angeles Team Mentoring

“Toilet paper cheerleader competition”: Mentor Dennis Goggin, of the Disney Channel, with his new team during team-building exercises at James Madison...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Shout It Out: The Voices Project Movie

Bess O’BrienKingdom County Productions90 minutes. DVD, two study guides, one CD soundtrack: $150. Based on interviews with a thousand Vermont teenagers...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Mentoring Forums

http://mentoringforums.educationnorthwest.org Professionals who run youth mentoring organizations can ask questions of one another and share knowledge and experiences on this website....

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

CNCS Unveils Guidelines for Social Innovation Grants

Long-awaited funding guidelines for the new $50 million Social Innovation Fund were announced Tuesday by the Corporation for National and Community Service...

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Brotherly Love

At his side: Joseph Radelet with Aaron Robinson around the time of Robinson’s high school graduation in 2009. Radelet has served...

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Soul Searching: BBBSA’s Image AmongAfrican Americans

If perception is reality, then Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA) is everything from an outsider in the black community...

Guest Opinion Essay

Congratulations on Your Engagement

A recent study entitled A Report on the 2007 and 2008 High School Survey of Student Engagement provides some distressing news about...

► Reports

Good Intentions: The Beliefs and Values of Teens and Tweens Today

Girl Scout Research Institute (GRSI) and Harris Interactive Youth today are far more committed to being responsible, valuing diversity, being accepting...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

A Quick-Start Guide to Building Assets in Your Prevention Program

Deborah FisherSearch Institute Press28 pages. $14.95. This slim guide describes how to infuse the developmental assets model into existing prevention programs...

Second Chance Mentoring Grants Available

The Bureau of Justice Assistance issued a solicitation today for nonprofits interested in seeking funds to mentor adult or juvenile offenders headed...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Local Organizations Outreach Program (LOOP)

Visalia, Calif.(559) 636-5000http://www.co.tulare.ca.ushttp://www.stepuptc.com Objective: Provide at-risk youth with free transportation to activities that connect them to mentoring and gang prevention programs...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

I No Longer Feel Worthless

By Tanya L., 14LA Youth, Los Angeles I was born with a physical disability. Three of the fingers on my left...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Teasing Drove Me to Desperation

By AnonymousNew Youth Connections, New York One day in fifth grade, a boy came and sat next to me in the...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

OJJDP Mentoring Funds Boosted by $20 Million

The fiscal 2010 omnibus spending bill signed by President Barack Obama on Dec. 16 adds $20 million – for a total of...

A College Degree Won’t Make You Free

A lot of people who’ve read Carter G. Woodson’s famous 1933 treatise, The Mis-Education of the Negro, believe the book’s message...

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Agencies to Pilot Postsecondary Projects

A GED – or general education diploma – once was a “good enough diploma,” as comedian Chris Rock has called it. But...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

‘Green Jobs’ Grants Awarded

The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded the first of a series of “green jobs” grants designed to prepare targeted populations –...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Another Federal Audit Slams Another Job Corps Site

Dead cockroaches, expired food, filthy conditions, and unreported drug- and weapon-related incidents were all uncovered at a Florida Job Corps center operated...

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