All posts tagged "Youth Development"

• ► Reports

  Recommendations for WIA Reauthorization Legislation: Title I Youth Provisions

  Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) At a time when increased attention is being paid to the fact that nearly one...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Restrictions Sought On Youth Jobs

  In an effort to increase safety, the federal government is considering new proposals to limit the jobs youth can hold and the...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Tools for Mentoring Adolescents

  www.mentoringworks.org/Training_Institute_Tools_and_Resources.html  The Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota and the Search Institute have partnered to create this set of free tools to support and...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Failure to Copy Right

  Martinez: “The community colleges still won’t take the type of people that CET will take.” Replicating successful program models remains one of...

• Book Reviews

  Why ‘Adolescence’ Was a Harmful Invention

  By Robert EpsteinQuill Driver Books, March 2007450 pages, $24.95 “Adolescence” is a bonanza for youth programming. Without America’s doctrine that we must...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  De-Constructing Teenagers?

  Teens who land high-paying summer construction jobs may feel lucky to earn, on average, $20 an hour, but the National Institute for...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Sweating Summer Jobs

  Once again, the employment prospects for teens this summer look gloomy. If the forecast of Andrew Sum and Joseph McLaughlin of Northeastern...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Surviving Without Uncle Sam’s Money

  Finding a pot of $30 million in federal grants for your specialty in youth work should make you feel pretty good. But...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Urban Boatbuilders

  St. Paul, Minn. (651) 644-9225 http://www.urbanboatbuilders.org Objective: To provide experiential learning and personal growth through building wooden boats. In a Nutshell: Urban...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Nabulungi Akinshegun

  Nabulungi Akinshegun Photo: Interages Program Coordinator Across Ages Mentoring Interages (301) 949-3551 http://www.interagesmd.org Age: 28 Salary: $41,500 About the Organization: Interages links...

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  What Kids Really Want to Ask: Using Movies to Start Meaningful Conversations

  Rhonda Richardson and A. Margaret Pevec VanderWyk & Burnham 200 pages. $12.95. How was school? Who are you hanging out with? Adults...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Mentoring Foster Parents

  Over the course of a decade, Rosie Starks served as a foster parent to four children. For the past three years, she’s...

• News

  Assessing the Well-Being of Adolescents: Guides for Out-of School Time Program Practitioners

  Child Trends Three new Research-to-Results briefs from the nonprofit Child Trends offer research-based advice and assistance to after-school practitioners charged with looking...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Adolescent Sexuality: A Historical Handbook and Guide

  Edited by Carolyn CoccaPraeger Publishers188 pages. $59.95. An in-depth look at the historical progression and culture of adolescent sexuality. The first section...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kids’ Inner Wildness

  Chris MercoglianoBeacon Press201 pages. $24.95. A guide on how to allow children to safely experience “authentic” childhoods. The beginning chapters analyze how,...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Raise Them Up: The Real Deal on Reaching Unreachable Kids

  Kareem Moody, with Anitra BuddSearch Institute 111 pages. $9.95. A how-to guide for youth workers on dealing with kids who are especially...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  The Essential Guide to Talking with Teens

  Jean Sunde PetersonFree Spirit Publishing282 pages. $29.95. A compilation of discussion topics for youth workers who lead small group discussions. The introduction...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Learn to Mentor

  This online course offers everything needed to “fully prepare you to be a mentor,” says its founder, The National Mentoring Partnership. The...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  After-School Jobs Take Their Toll

  The Marietta (Ga.) Times Nearly eight in 10 U.S. teens work during their high school years. But parents, teachers and experts worry...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Letters to the Editor for April 2007

  How Mentoring Got Diluted The December/January article, “The Study that Ignited (or Diluted) Mentoring,” is very important and factual, especially as described...