All posts tagged "Youth Development"

• Butts to Field: Less Treatment, More Development

  Jeff Butts is well-known on the research end of things in juvenile justice, choosing simply to analyze and conclude. But his recent...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  College Mentors for Kids

  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...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  The End of Youth?

  At a time when many foundations are supporting education reform and millions of philanthropic dollars are going to fund youth development programs,...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  The Case Against Incentives

  Last year, the administration of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a series of experimental initiatives whose intention was to lift...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  A World Away From Her

  Kanwal Javaid, 18New Youth Connections, New York Leaving my grandmother in Pakistan was the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life....

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  Schools that Work

  Center for an Urban Future Most people believe that attending a normal high school is the only way to get to college,...

• Helping Youths Find their Purpose

  Bill Damon is a man with a purpose. It is to help overindulged and narcissistic, drifting youth find theirs – thereby ending...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Time for a 180 on Youth Advocacy

  FirstFocus, the advocacy organization affiliated with the America’s Promise Alliance, recently released “Children’s Budget 2008,” a comprehensive guide to the more than...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Anti-Gang Group Turns New York Thugs into College Students

  The Christian Science Monitor Founded as a small anti-gang program in 1975, the Council for Unity says it now reaches 100,000 young...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Precision Engineering

  Creating sound bites that are not only memorable but communicate a message is a passion of mine. Every now and then I...

• Research

  Youth in Foster Care With Adult Mentors During Adolescence Have Improved Adult Outcomes

  University of Washington, Seattle/University of Illinois, Chicago Available at http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/121/2/e246 Despite this study’s title, its researchers make a clear distinction between adult...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  A New Low in Official Betrayal

  Admit it: Most of us in the youth field owe our jobs to appalling government and institutional dereliction. The abject failure of...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Waiting to Call 911 Is No Crime

  If you have to wonder whether to call 911 when a disruptive youth gets hurt during a restraint, the safe bet would...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  U.S. Coordinates Youth Programs – Again?

  Two years ago, President Bush signed a law passed by Congress to create a council that is supposed to connect federal agencies...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Youth Development and the Common Good

  Nothing rankles me more than poverty and our American tradition of ignoring it. For kids, poverty is the ultimate risk factor. While...

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  America’s Youth at 20: School Enrollment, Training, and Employment Transitions Between Ages 19 and 20

  U.S. Department of Labor Twenty-year-old females are 20 percent more likely to be enrolled in college than are their male counterparts, says...

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  Engaging Youth … On Their Turf: Creative Approaches to Connecting Youth through Community

  Healthy Teen Network This report focuses on the importance of involving at-risk youth in positive activities in order to combat teen pregnancy,...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  BAM! Boys Advocacy and Mentoring: A Leader’s Guide to Facilitating Strengths-Based Groups for Boys

  Peter Mortola, Howard Hilton, Stephen GrantRoutledge142 pages. $34.95. These three professional counselors offer a valuable blueprint for weekly sessions of BAM! groups...

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  Mentoring, Policy and Politics

  Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) This policy brief by former P/PV President Gary Walker asks, “Is mentoring now a durable part of American social...

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  Exploring Girls’ Leadership (2007)

  Girl Scout Research Institute GSRI’s review analyzes literature from the youth development and youth leadership fields and examines lingering contrasts between youth...