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Archives: 2014 & Earlier

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...

Opinion

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...

Opinion

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...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

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...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

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,...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

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...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

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...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

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...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

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...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

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:...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

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...

► Reports

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)...

► 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