When Marguerite Sallee became CEO of America’s Promise – The Alliance for Youth a little more than a year ago, she saw...
At a time when many youth-serving programs are virtually begging adults to volunteer as mentors, anyone who wants to mentor for Best...
Child Welfare Protecting Children in Foster Care: Why Proposed Medicaid Cuts Harm Our Nation’s Most Vulnerable ChildrenCasey Family Programs At least $10...
Aniak, Alaska(907) 675-4601 Objective: Train youth volunteers to help a rural fire department on emergency calls, and help pay college expenses...
So you’re going to create a safe teen center in your town, and teens are actually going to hang out there? Yeah,...
I’m in a funk. I’ll bet you are, too. Those of us who value young people, who give our all in the...
Many professional groups comprise the tapestry of what Youth Today readers call “youth work”: Educators, health professionals, managers with MBAs, sociologists and...
Throughout the year, first lady Laura Bush has traveled the country touting programs that the White House says do everything from steering...
The avalanche of videos and program materials proposing to deter American youths from acting like American adults – that is, indulging sex,...
Chicago The Southwest Youth Collaborative is housed in a corner building covered by graffiti murals and perched at the junction of several...
Boca Raton, Fla.(561) 241-9110www.sweptawaytv.com Objective: Train youth to work in the media and give them an opportunity to run a TV...
To a lot of kids, Jimmy would have been just another worm. But for many of the children in New York’s Central...
No youth-serving agency in living memory has had such spectacular financial success or suffered as spectacular a scandal as New York-based Covenant...
In many cultures, the transition from childhood into the teen years is marked by a rite of passage in which the young...
Portland, Ore. One of the first things Catherine Milton noticed when she became president of Friends of the Children (FOTC) three years...
More than 15 years ago, I began using a twist on an old saying as a way to get discussions started about...
In 40 years of working for progressive causes, I’ve never seen liberalism in such pathetic decay. What bizarre mechanism makes modern liberal...
Spartanburg, S.C.(864) 582-7588, ext. 335 www.orgsites.com/sc/imaginethat Objective: Use the theater and young actors to educate youth about social issues. In a...
When youth minister Russell Wilson returned to the church his father helped to build in southern Indiana, he saw a dwindling number...
Baltimore, Md.—In 1954, a U.S. Senate subcommittee summoned child psychologists and comic book publishers to hearings on a matter of grave national...