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Report Roundup for November 2006

A compilation of the reports from this issue.

Why So Silent About the War?

American youth development programs, like the American people, are all over the place when it comes to helping young people learn and...

Guest Opinion Essay

Youth Reseach Debate

Response to Youth Research: Duh! By Mark Redmond The woman who heads our education center here at Spectrum Youth and Family Services...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Help a Kid, Make a Buck

For years, social scientists of many stripes have tried to make the case for investing in the healthy development of our nation’s...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

RIP: A Nonprofit Knows it’s Time to Go

Even when Family Support America (FSA) was flush with $24 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, its leaders knew trouble lurked...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Hope Springs from Katrina’s Rubble

New Orleans, La. — Dolores Whitfield returned to her battered shotgun home, one of the rectangular domiciles that were invented here, shortly...

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Report Roundup for September 2006

A compilation of the reports from this issue.

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Prison Break

As mentoring’s popularity continues to soar, perhaps no one is getting more attention than children of prisoners. Programs for those youth have...

Guest Opinion Essay

Whatever Sells

The bigoted vendetta waged by America’s news media and institutions against youth has entered an even uglier phase: outright fabrication. Endless “teen...

Guest Opinion Essay

Can Youth Development Programs Contribute to Academic Success?

A hot topic in the world of after-school and youth development programs is their role in promoting young people’s academic success. Often...

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Report Roundup for July-August 2006

A compilation of the reports from this issue.

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Pioneers for Peace

Detroit, Mich.(313) 745-5053www.pioneersforpeace.org Objective: To increase awareness about the impact of violence and to help reduce violence among youth. In a...

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Are You My Mentor?

There’s this guy, a writer. Coaches a boys’ baseball team. He sees the kids three times a week; they have a great...

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Report Roundup for June 2006

A compilation of the reports from this issue.

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Generation Rap

At the Mt. Kisco Day Care Center in Westchester, N.Y., youth in the after-school program often prepare healthy snacks alongside senior citizens....

Guest Opinion Essay

On a Path Toward Thriving

As caring adults in the lives of youth, many of us are privileged to witness young people discover an aspect of themselves...

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Report Roundup for May 2006

A compilation of the reports from this issue.

Guest Opinion Essay

The New Isolationists?

I have heard it all too often in youth program circles: “The United States should focus on the challenges right here between...

Guest Opinion Essay

Drive-By Journalism

To grasp the appalling meanness of the American Automobile Association’s latest media attack on teenagers, consider the tragedy of Travis Bosse. He...

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