All posts tagged "Youth Development"

• MENTOR Names New CEO

  Alberto Gonzales might be hard up for a job, but not every Bush 43 guy is having the same trouble. MENTOR, a...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  A Shout Out to Michelle Obama

    There is one goal that each of us in the youth “business” shares: to ensure that all children receive the full...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Successful Transition to Adolescence Begins at Home

  Program: Strong African American Families (SAAF) Organization: Center for Family Research, University of Georgia Type of Evaluation: Researchers examined whether this intervention,...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Community Services Locator: An Online Directory for Finding Community Services for Children and Families

  Susan Brune Lorenzo and Rochelle Mayer Maternal and Child Health Library Free. This new online directory makes it easy to find local...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  The Best of Building Assets Together: Favorite Group Activities That Help Youth Succeed

  Jolene L. RoehlkepartainSearch Institute Press156 pages, plus CD-ROM. $34.95. Combining popular exercises from two previous editions with 35 new ideas, this handbook...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Who Mentored You?

  http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/chc/wmy2008 This interactive site sponsored by the Harvard Mentoring Project showcases testimonials by a host of luminaries such as Oprah and former...

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  The Teens with Michelle Obama at President’s Speech

  Three Washington, D.C., high school students who asked first lady Michelle Obama questions during her recent visit to their after-school program were...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Most Stimulus Jobs Require College Experience

  A little more than half of the 3.7 million jobs expected to be created by the new economic stimulus package will require...

• New Day in San Francisco, Providence

  The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation’s New Day for Learning, which seeks to help communities improve existing plans to improve educational achievement through...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Aching for Adults

    At a recent dropout prevention conference in New York state, a panel of five teenagers shared their ideas about what it...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  School-Based Mentoring

    I want to thank you for covering the latest study regarding the Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) high school [mentoring] program...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  New Directions for Youth Development: Spiritual Development

    Edited by Peter L. Benson, Eugene C. Roehlkepartain, Kathryn L. HongJossey-Bass/Wiley142 pages. $23.20. Subscriptions $85 (1 year, 4 issues). Spiritual development...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  The Future is Green for Community Colleges

  If you’re searching for a place to get training for a job in America’s burgeoning “green economy,” then consider a community college...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Finding Resources to Support Mentoring Programs and Services for Youth

  The Finance Project32 pages. Free. This guide explores three strategies for financing and sustaining mentoring programs and services: building partnerships with businesses...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Sparks: How Parents Can Help Ignite the Hidden Strengths of Teenagers

  Peter L. BensonJossey-Bass/Wiley235 pages. $24.95. Building on Search Institute’s 40 Developmental Assets, Benson, the institute’s CEO, introduces “sparks” – shorthand for “follow...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  MENTOR Online Community – Musing on Mentoring

      http://forums.mentoring.org/ntlm/blog?blog.id=musings_on_mentoring This weekly blog revolves around a mentor’s experiences and enables users to comment with their views and questions. Topics...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Peer Mentoring

  The following Web post was about the November story, “Peer-to-Peer Pressures: Study shows the limits of using high schoolers as mentors,” regarding...

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  Progress Report on the Shared Youth Vision Partnership

  The Shared Vision Partnership provides no money but helps states figure out how to maximize resources going toward youth populations. For example,...

• News

  Big Brothers Big Sisters Head to Leave This Summer

  Judy Vredenburgh, president and CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) has announced she will leave the post this summer after a...

• New Federal Mentoring Funds Coming; Website Launched

  New solicitations for federal mentoring grants could be announced in the next few weeks and months from several federal agencies – although...