Youth Today
All posts tagged "Youth Development"
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Guest Opinion Essay
Editorial
The recent White House conference on Teenagers was, for a White House that has hosted memorable events over the past two centuries,...
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Guest Opinion Essay
Imbedding Positive Youth Development
In recent years many of us who have been laboring in the vineyards of youth work have come to embrace positive youth...
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News
Making the Case: Linking Youth Development and Positive Psychology
Now and then you have the unsettling experience of hearing your thoughts come out of someone else’s mouth. This is the experience...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
White House Gathering Plugs Positive Youth Development
The Clinton administration held the first-ever White House Conference on Teenagers last month and put the accent on the positive – forging...
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Mentoring School-Age Children: Relationship Development in Community-Based and School-Based Programs
Mentoring helps improve youths’ grades, school attendance and family relationships, and helps prevent alcohol and drug initiation, says this report financed by...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Some Philly Programs Cruise, Others Feel a Bumpy Ride
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...
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News
Computers Mean Business For Teens
For the teens in Plugged In Enterprises, the experience is part real-world business, part structured learning and part community service. It is...
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National Job Corps Study: The Short-Term Impacts of Job Corps on Participants’ Employment and Related Outcomes
Job Corps graduates earn higher wages and are less likely to have run-ins with the criminal justice system than eligible nonparticipants, according...
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News
In New Courts, Kids on Drugs Get the Treatment
Phoenix, Ariz.—Garrett is just 14, but he’s about to fail a test that could send him to jail. “I was around some...
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Shifts at GCYF, OSI
On board at the D.C.-based affinity group of over 200 foundations funding children and youth undertakings is Marsha Renwanz, a well known...
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Kauffman Coughs, Packard Dozes
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, one of the nation’s leading philanthropic organizations supporting youth services, has had an expected shake-up in its...
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National Nonprofits
Communities in Schools (CIS), the Alexandria, Va.-based national program that brings youth workers into schools, has expelled Janet Langmore, its CEO of...
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Community Counts: How Youth Organizations Matter for Youth Development
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...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Getting Personal: England Gives Kids Advisers
While “guidance counselor” in the United States has routinely come to mean a desk-bound administrator who dispenses college applications, England has just...
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News
An Abrasive ‘Mother Teresa’ Says, ‘Drop The Guns’
LORAIN, Ohio—Re’Nee Gill’s service to kids came while she was saving herself. To understand her passion about stopping gun violence, go back...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Congressional Mystery: The Quest for Mount Hope’s Youth Center
As budget items go, this one seemed simple: “$3,000,000 for the Mount Hope Center for a youth program.” Given the enormity of...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
$222 Million in Grants Target Poor Youth
Some 44,000 young people have been targeted by $222 million in Youth Opportunity grants aimed at getting them back to school, enrolling...
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News
Youth Empowerment’s Spotty Gains
For today’s youth activists the era of considering teens as primarily passive recipients of adult guidance may seem like life from another...
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News
Fatherhood Groups Aim to Make Men ‘Secure Within Themselves’
Although around since 1994, the D.C.-based National Practitioner’s Network for Fathers and Families (NPNFF) is just beginning to hit its stride as...
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News
In Milwaukee, Youth Worker Training Pays
Milwaukee, Wis.—Wanted: Youth workers to go to school to learn how to be better youth workers. Money a problem? We’ll pay. Time...
