All posts tagged "Youth Development"

• 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...

• Scott’s PROMISE Needs a Sister Act

  If reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 is the gold medal for juvenile justice advocates, passage of...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Young Offender Grants from DOL: Act Now!

  Gotta love it when a federal agency announces grant availability with a deadline that is only a month later. The Department of...

• Finding Resources to Support Mentoring Programs and Services for Youth

  The Finance Project 32 pages. Free. This brief explores three strategies for financing and sustaining mentoring programs and services: building partnerships with businesses...

• 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...

• Opinion

  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...

• Opinion

  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...

• ► Reports

  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),...

• ► Reports

  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...

• Opinion

  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...