As millions of youth workers and teachers reconnect this fall with our nation’s young people, now is a good time to...
Tightening budgets and plummeting employment rates are particularly troubling for those of us who work with youth who have dropped out...
http://www.youthoutlook.org Youth Outlook’s site is a virtual collection of all that this Bay Area-based youth literary journal has to offer: magazine...
Few people have made more contributions to the research on juvenile delinquent behavior than developmental psychologist Dr. Laurence Steinberg, a professor at...
National Center for Education Statistics Most first-time students who begin their post-secondary education at four-year institutions are 19 or younger (85 percent),...
Jobfox Social workers and counselors are ranked as the seventh most in-demand professionals, according to the June report from Jobfox, an online...
A voucher program designed to expand the availability of mentors for children whose parents are incarcerated is bogged down by in-fighting...
At a recent session of a youth development program, during a Mad Libs activity that served as an icebreaker, one of...
Quality Matters Toolkit: Youth Voice and EngagementUniversity of Minnesota (UM) Extension – Youth Work InstituteFree, 15 pages.(612) 624-7139, http://www.extension.umn.edu/youth/00015.pdf. The Youth Work...
http://yip.npgoodpractice.org Launched early in 2008 by Michigan’s Grand Valley State University, the site offers resources for the next generation of youth-focused philanthropists...
Pennsylvania has become the fifth state to ban youth residential programs from using prone restraints, which can lead to accidental asphyxiation or...
We mentioned earlier this month that the Community Capacity Development Office (CCDO) at the Office of Justice Programs was fielding applications for...
Following Jeff Butts’ plea for a larger focus on positive youth development approaches to working with juvenile offenders, we asked if anyone...
By Nancy Lewis More than 500 leaders and activists plan to gather in New York this month to launch what they hope...
Jeff Butts is well-known on the research end of things in juvenile justice, choosing simply to analyze and conclude. But his recent...
Indianapolis, Ind.(317) 921-1798http://www.collegementors.org Objective: Get disadvantaged youth excited about higher education and increase their opportunities to succeed. College Bound: Danae Beeler, a...
At a time when many foundations are supporting education reform and millions of philanthropic dollars are going to fund youth development programs,...
Last year, the administration of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a series of experimental initiatives whose intention was to lift...
Kanwal Javaid, 18New Youth Connections, New York Leaving my grandmother in Pakistan was the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life....
Center for an Urban Future Most people believe that attending a normal high school is the only way to get to college,...