Vanessa Fuentes, 24Represent, New York Being on your own after foster care can be very isolating, especially if you suffer from...
Urban Institute Eight new research briefs on youth transitions to early adulthood are available and include two unexpected findings: First, among...
The Finance Project This paper reviews some of the most recent research on what makes an effective youth development program and...
Public/Private Ventures and The Finance Project An increase in the need for programs that occupy students during their time outside of...
With the U.S. Capitol as its stage, Job Corps celebrated its 45th birthday this week with Job Corps students from around...
Urban Institute Eight new research briefs on youth transitions to early adulthood are now available and include two unexpected findings: 1....
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday announced the national juvenile mentoring grants: a total of $129 million that comes partially from Recovery...
The Finance Project This paper reviews some of the most recent research on what makes an effective youth development program, and seeks...
When Job Corps instructor Alexander Pasillas searched YouTube a while back for videos about Job Corps sites like the one where he...
Nobody in consideration wants to talk about it. Nobody who supports someone for one of the jobs wants to be quoted. Such...
Represent, New York My parents and foster parents never taught me manners. I mean, I’m sure my mom and dad taught...
U.S. Government Accountability Office Job Corps should confront the under-enrollment among females in its residential programs by offering career training that...
Public/Private Ventures This latest report on P/PV’s multi-year study of Boys & Girls Clubs finds that the more often youths participate...
Chap Clark, Steve RabeyBaker Books208 pages. $13.99 paperback. Adolescence, according to Chap Clark, senior editor of YouthWorker Journal and professor at...
Lynn Grasberg, Gina OldenburgSearch Institute Press/Independent Publishers Group172 pages. $16.95 paperback. Full of teen appeal, these often hilarious original skits by comedienne/theater...
Maggie Doyle 2009 Girls Going Places Entrepreneurship Awards For: Teen girls ages 12 to 18 who demonstrate exceptional entrepreneurship and community service....
Children’s Aid Society (CAS), which provides a range of programs for 150,000 New York City youth each year, has hired Richard Buery...
Children Now After-school workforce development projects that focus their outreach efforts on specific demographics, like high school and college students,...
Jobs for the Future (JFF) There’s no shortage of ideas on how to retool the Workforce Investment Act in order to make...
Learn how to tie a tie. Know when to keep silent and when to speak up. Keep illegal substances out of...