As budget items go, this one seemed simple: “$3,000,000 for the Mount Hope Center for a youth program.” Given the enormity of...
Some 44,000 young people have been targeted by $222 million in Youth Opportunity grants aimed at getting them back to school, enrolling...
For today’s youth activists the era of considering teens as primarily passive recipients of adult guidance may seem like life from another...
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...
Milwaukee, Wis.—Wanted: Youth workers to go to school to learn how to be better youth workers. Money a problem? We’ll pay. Time...
Police in the county where the infamous Columbine High School shootings took place are now keeping a database on juveniles after every...
BY TARA BONAPARTE When I first came to Saint Christopher’s, a residential treatment center for foster youth in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., I...
BY CLAUDIA TEJADA The first time I visited my mentor was nerve-wracking. I pictured her as an obnoxious, rude, demanding editor who...
By Mark Krueger Turnover and incompetence among youth workers are serious threats to youth development. Across the country employers are struggling to...
Somewhere in the bowels of the White House someone someday somehow will see the connection between the Presidents’ Summit for America’s Future...