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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Atlantic Philanthropies Hires New Children and Youth Director

The Atlantic Philanthropies, an international grant maker with assets of $3.3 billion, has hired Donna Lawrence to oversee its disadvantaged children and...

News

Peer-to-Peer Pressures

It’s easy to understand why peer mentoring is growing: Youth mentors are easier to recruit than adults, the pairs can easily...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Tracking Mentors Made Easy

Innovative MentoringInnovative Technology SolutionsBase packages start at $2,150. Annual hosting charges: about $650.(612) 221-7019 (new client inquiries), http://www.innovativementoring.net. Target Audience Youth mentoring...

News

Videotape Puts Program in Jeopardy

The chance videotaping of a boot-camp foster home staffer slamming a 16-year-old to the ground and pinning him down – because the...

News

Left on Doorstep, Teen Programs get Adopted

Click on chart to open PDF version. Before the hammer fell last year, a federal demonstration project to guide disadvantaged youth...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Alpacas to Work Magic with Kids

THE EXPRESS-TIMES (Harrisburg, Pa.) In an unlikely pairing, a farmer and a nonprofit organization have teamed up to teach urban youth...

Guest Opinion Essay

Put Me in Coach, I’m Ready to Play

As millions of youth workers and teachers reconnect this fall with our nation’s young people, now is a good time to...

Guest Opinion Essay

Let’s Apply What Works For Disconnected Youth

Tightening budgets and plummeting employment rates are particularly troubling for those of us who work with youth who have dropped out...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Youth Outlook

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...

Q&A: Dr. Laurence Steinberg

Few people have made more contributions to the research on juvenile delinquent behavior than developmental psychologist Dr. Laurence Steinberg, a professor at...

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Descriptive Summary of 2003-04 Beginning Postsecondary Students: Three Years Later

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),...

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Social Workers and Human Resource Managers in High Demand as Weak Economy Hits Home for Many

Jobfox Social workers and counselors are ranked as the seventh most in-demand professionals, according to the June report from Jobfox, an online...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Children of Prisoners Vouchers Fall Short

A voucher program designed to expand the availability of mentors for children whose parents are incarcerated is bogged down by in-fighting...

Guest Opinion Essay

What Youth Programs Teach

At a recent session of a youth development program, during a Mad Libs activity that served as an icebreaker, one of...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Quality Matters Toolkit: Youth Voice and Engagement

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...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

National Youth Philanthropy Clearinghouse

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...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Another State Bans Prone Restraints

Pennsylvania has become the fifth state to ban youth residential programs from using prone restraints, which can lead to accidental asphyxiation or...

Weed and Seed Whacked

We mentioned earlier this month that the Community Capacity Development Office (CCDO) at the Office of Justice Programs was fielding applications for...