All posts tagged "Youth Development"

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Association of Mentoring Professionals

  http://www.mentoringprofessionals.org This site for association members provides resources, online training, career development, a community calendar, an online curriculum and more. An annual...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Web Watch for November 2007

    Child Welfare Adoption Learning Partnerswww.adoptionlearningpartners.org/courses/overview.cfmTwo new online courses at this site aim to educate prospective adoptive parents about a variety of...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Pubs and Videos for November 2007

  AFTER SCHOOL Afterschool Style in Practice:25 Skill-Building Meetings for StaffTamara Sniad, Claudia Weisburd, Sarah MelloCenter for Afterschool and Community Education/Foundations Inc.182 pages....

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  Fighting Poverty through Incentives and Work Mandates for Young Men

  In this policy brief featured in a recent issue of the journal The Future of Children, Brookings senior fellow Ron Haskins examines...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  This Just In: Good Help is Hard to Find

  "Good help is so hard to find these days."– Jafar, in "The Return of Jafar" Let’s admit right off the bat that...

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  Youth Work’s Immigration Movement

  By Ed Finkel The Boys & Girls Club of West Georgia, after witnessing a 30 percent increase in Latino participants in three...

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  Career Development Program

    Murray, Utah(801) 284-4260www.bgcsv.org Objective: Instill a work ethic and career interest in youth by connecting them to community partners involved in...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Extending Learning: Will We Ever Get It Right?

  I had a few hours to read, so I pulled out the folder into which I cram all the things that catch...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Youth Development and the Creative Life

  Beauty is the only thing that can save the world. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky Many policymakers seem to think that all good things...

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  Longing for an Identity: My Last Name Mystery

  Natalie Kozakiewicz, 21REPRESENT, NEW YORK In December 2004, I went to my foster care agency to get copies of my parents’ death...

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  Longing for an Identity: Alone With My Questions

  By Cynthia Orbes, 19REPRESENT, NEW YORK  For years and years after my parents died, I kept myself from remembering them. Each Christmas,...

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  Youth Development Worker Competency Training Modules

  National Collaboration for Youth 29 pages each. Free online. The collaboration has drawn up training modules for three of the 10 core...

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  YouthNetwork.org

  http://www.youthnetwork.org This streamlined search engine of nearly 1.2 million community resources for youth around the country helps users find local youth programs...

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  Girl Power

  Fast Company Seventeen-year-old Ashley Qualls has built the 349th most popular website in the world (out of more than 20 million) without...

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  School-Based Mentoring: Does it Make the Grade?

  Teamwork: Big brother Tim Bagley plays with his little, Raymond, at Shaw Middle School in Philadelphia, as part of school-based mentoring program....

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Kids Grade Adults as Average

  Adults received their customary mediocre grade – a “C” – from youths in the latest Uhlich Report Card, which asks 1,000 teens...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Teaching the Trades

  Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Gov. Jim Doyle (D) plans to double the budget for Wisconsin’s Youth Apprenticeship program to $2.2 million a year, which...

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  Bolder Options

  Shaping relationships: Mentor Katie Elden runs with her mentee, Tajh’et Horne. Photo: Photo courtesy of Bolder Options Minneapolis (612) 379-BOLD www.bolderoptions.org Objective:...

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  Chris Gross

  Program CoordinatorBoys Hope Girls Hope of New OrleansNew Orleans, La.(504) 484-7744www.boyshopegirlshope.org/locations/neworleans/home.html Gross and Glenn, a Boys Hope resident. Photo: Photo courtesy of...

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  Amplifiers of Developmental and Negative Experiences in Organized Activities

  Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign This study evaluated four sets of factors thought to affect adolescents’ developmental (positive)...