All posts tagged "Youth Development"

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Columbine’s Long-Term Harm: the Bully Pulpit

    Like 9/11, Columbine was an event that “changed everything.” It challenged our belief that kids, for all their quirks, would always...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  The Six Essential Questions

    If there is one idea that dominates the youth work and positive youth development fields, it is that every kid needs...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Camp Fire USA

  http://www.campfireusa.org Camp Fire USA has launched its newly designed and formatted website to mark its 100th anniversary celebrations next year. The site...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Leaders’ Guides

  Real Jobs, Real Stories: Stories by Teens About Succeeding at WorkEdited by Laura LonghineYouth Communication 179 pages. $16.95. A Leader’s Guide to...

• News

  Report Highlights Youth Development Programs Sponsored by Cities

  College scholarships and apprenticeships. Jobs for teens in trouble with the law.  Book clubs for kids and free trips to the museum....

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Kyle Ozechowski, Program Supervisor, Youth Counselor

    Kyle Ozechowski Friends of Youth – Griffin HomeRenton, Wash.(425) 228-5776http://www.friendsofyouth.org Age: 27 Salary: $30,000 My Organization: Friends of Youth provides services...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  A Supportive Adult Goes a Long Way

    Vanessa Fuentes, 24Represent, New York Being on your own after foster care can be very isolating, especially if you suffer from...

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  Vulnerable Youth and the Transition to Adulthood

    Urban Institute Eight new research briefs on youth transitions to early adulthood are available and include two unexpected findings: First, among...

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  A Guide to Effective Investments in Positive Youth Development

    The Finance Project This paper reviews some of the most recent research on what makes an effective youth development program and...

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  Investments for Building Out-of-School-Time Systems: A Six City Study

    Public/Private Ventures and The Finance Project An increase in the need for programs that occupy students during their time outside of...

• News

  Success Stories Abound at Job Corps 45th Anniversary Celebration

    With the U.S. Capitol as its stage, Job Corps celebrated its 45th birthday this week with Job Corps students from around...

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  Vulnerable Youth and the Transition to Adulthood

    Urban Institute Eight new research briefs on youth transitions to early adulthood are now available and include two unexpected findings: 1....

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Justice Awards Millions in Mentoring Grants

  U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday announced the national juvenile mentoring grants: a total of $129 million that comes partially from Recovery...

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  A Guide to Effective Investments in Positive Youth Development: Implications of Research for Financing and Sustaining Programs and Services for Youth

  The Finance Project This paper reviews some of the most recent research on what makes an effective youth development program, and seeks...

• News

  Job Corps’ YouTube Dilemna

  When Job Corps instructor Alexander Pasillas searched YouTube a while back for videos about Job Corps sites like the one where he...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  OBAMA JOB WATCH

  Nobody in consideration wants to talk about it. Nobody who supports someone for one of the jobs wants to be quoted. Such...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Taming the Wild Ones

    Represent, New York My parents and foster parents never taught me manners. I mean, I’m sure my mom and dad taught...

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  Job Corps: Better Targeted Career Training and Improved Preenrollment Information Could Enhance Female Residential Student Recruitment and Retention

    U.S. Government Accountability Office Job Corps should confront the under-enrollment among females in its residential programs by offering career training that...

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  Making Every Day Count: Boys & Girls Clubs’ Role in Promoting Positive Outcomes for Teens

    Public/Private Ventures This latest report on P/PV’s multi-year study of Boys & Girls Clubs finds that the more often youths participate...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  When Kids Hurt: Help for Adults Navigating the Adolescent Maze

    Chap Clark, Steve RabeyBaker Books208 pages. $13.99 paperback. Adolescence, according to Chap Clark, senior editor of YouthWorker Journal and professor at...