BY SUE BADEAU The 107th Congress convened Jan. 3, and a flurry of proposed bills as well as new committee assignments signal...
With more than half of all 15- to 17-year-olds employed in the retail trade industry-such as fast food, restaurants, and grocery stores-the...
The U.S. program office of the Baltimore-based International Youth Foundation (IYF) is changing its name and modifying its mission. Located in the...
This report profiles six successful programs in career exploration and preparation for young people. Youth and youth-serving institutions today, the report says,...
London—In an effort to pursue a single, comprehensive national youth policy, British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Labor government has launched a Children...
PHILADELPHIA—It is a mentor’s mecca, this town of cheesesteaks, hoagies and sticky buns. That was one of the...
The recent White House conference on Teenagers was, for a White House that has hosted memorable events over the past two centuries,...
In recent years many of us who have been laboring in the vineyards of youth work have come to embrace positive youth...
Now and then you have the unsettling experience of hearing your thoughts come out of someone else’s mouth. This is the experience...
The Clinton administration held the first-ever White House Conference on Teenagers last month and put the accent on the positive – forging...
Mentoring helps improve youths’ grades, school attendance and family relationships, and helps prevent alcohol and drug initiation, says this report financed by...
Mary Strasser calls it “the Cadillac of school-to-career programs.” Mary Jane Clancy, executive director of the School District of Philadelphia’s Office of...
For the teens in Plugged In Enterprises, the experience is part real-world business, part structured learning and part community service. It is...
Job Corps graduates earn higher wages and are less likely to have run-ins with the criminal justice system than eligible nonparticipants, according...
Phoenix, Ariz.—Garrett is just 14, but he’s about to fail a test that could send him to jail. “I was around some...
On board at the D.C.-based affinity group of over 200 foundations funding children and youth undertakings is Marsha Renwanz, a well known...
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, one of the nation’s leading philanthropic organizations supporting youth services, has had an expected shake-up in its...
Communities in Schools (CIS), the Alexandria, Va.-based national program that brings youth workers into schools, has expelled Janet Langmore, its CEO of...
This report is based on a study spanning 12 years, of 12-to-18-year-olds in urban and rural communities across the country, aimed at...
While “guidance counselor” in the United States has routinely come to mean a desk-bound administrator who dispenses college applications, England has just...