All posts tagged "Youth Development"

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Forget Hip-Hop; Get YCC

  A civil war is brewing in youth work force development centers. It pits many veteran youth workers against a younger crowd that...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Measuring Effectiveness in the Real World

    In a field of research seemingly obsessed with developing, cataloging and replicating evidence-based program models, one study has found a unique...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Faithful Partnerships

  While the idea of churches working with secular organizations to provide social services often sparks public debate, the truth is that nonprofits...

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  Report Roundup for February 2006

  A compilation of the reports from this issue.

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Community Boxing and Fitness Center

    Kansas City, Kan.(913) 371-7676 Objective: Use boxing and personal guidance to meet the physical, mental and spiritual needs of youth. In...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Private Pays, but Not for Kids

  The business section of The New York Times ran a feature story in August titled, “A Business Built on the Troubles of...

• Communities Get Scored on Helping Kids

  When Marguerite Sallee became CEO of America’s Promise – The Alliance for Youth a little more than a year ago, she saw...

• E-mentoring removes barriers, but requires new procedures and struggles in evaluations

  At a time when many youth-serving programs are virtually begging adults to volunteer as mentors, anyone who wants to mentor for Best...

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  Report Roundup of November 2005

  Child Welfare Protecting Children in Foster Care: Why Proposed Medicaid Cuts Harm Our Nation’s Most Vulnerable ChildrenCasey Family Programs At least $10...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Aniak Dragon Slayers

    Aniak, Alaska(907) 675-4601 Objective: Train youth volunteers to help a rural fire department on emergency calls, and help pay college expenses...

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  Teen Centers, Complete with Teens

  So you’re going to create a safe teen center in your town, and teens are actually going to hang out there? Yeah,...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Getting Out of Our Funk

  I’m in a funk. I’ll bet you are, too. Those of us who value young people, who give our all in the...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Psychologists, Mental Health and Youth Development

  Many professional groups comprise the tapestry of what Youth Today readers call “youth work”: Educators, health professionals, managers with MBAs, sociologists and...

• News

  Laura Bush’s Youth Work Tour

  Throughout the year, first lady Laura Bush has traveled the country touting programs that the White House says do everything from steering...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Dishonest Youth Videos

  The avalanche of videos and program materials proposing to deter American youths from acting like American adults – that is, indulging sex,...

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  Youth Development’s Racial Challenge

  Chicago The Southwest Youth Collaborative is housed in a corner building covered by graffiti murals and perched at the junction of several...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Swept Away TV

    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...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Youth development grows outdoors, at low cost

  To a lot of kids, Jimmy would have been just another worm. But for many of the children in New York’s Central...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Covenant House: Nihil Obstat

  No youth-serving agency in living memory has had such spectacular financial success or suffered as spectacular a scandal as New York-based Covenant...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Summer of Service: An American Rite of Passage?

  In many cultures, the transition from childhood into the teen years is marked by a rite of passage in which the young...