ROANOKE RAPIDS, N.C.—Prosperity flies by the car window on the 70-mile drive from high-tech Durham to this economically depressed city: acres of...
When the 20th century began every nation on earth – save Costa Rica and Venezuela – allowed the execution of convicted murderers,...
With some exceptions, overall drug abuse among American adolescents held steady during 1999, according to “Monitoring the Future,” the ongoing study by...
In a dozen years of working with kids, I saw the same scenes a hundred times: parents, family friends, relatives and teenagers...
As if opening the paycheck isn’t depressing enough, a new report from the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) illustrates how poorly...
By Jake Henshaw Sacramento—Californians are about to decide just how “tough” they want to get on juvenile offenders, through a ballot initiative...
The First Lady was coming to talk with some youths, and the youths had an agenda that was going to shock her....
Policy Statement of the American Academy of PediatricsReprinted in Pediatrics, October 1999 and AAP News, October 1999Available free at www.aap.org/policy/re9915.html or for $5...
The foundation world has been kind to HandsNet, the Silicon Valley-based pioneer in bringing cyberspace to the aid of human service groups...
Flexibility and patience. Everyone wants a funder who approaches complex change initiatives with these attributes. But to be fair, wouldn’t we as...
One big-picture impression emerged from weeks of federal budget bickering in Washington: the robust U.S. economy has not spurred Congress to turn...
Described as the largest media buy in history for a public health issue, national drug czar Barry McCaffrey’s $185-million-a-year anti-drug campaign is...
The House and Senate juvenile justice legislation, passed with so much fanfare in late summer, didn’t make final cut during the first...
In a move heralded by child advocates, the U.S. Senate has given President Clinton unanimous consent to ratify a new treaty seeking...
Philadelphia—If every Hispanic girl in America thought like Sheila, it seems, perhaps they wouldn’t have the highest teen birthrate of any ethnic...
The author of a hard-hitting study concluding that juveniles in Maryland charged with adult crimes are subjected to “appalling” physical conditions, extreme...
By Joy Dryfoos Everyone else is sounding off about the significance of the new millennium, so why shouldn’t I? Who has a...
To hear the nation’s leading Democratic and Republican politicians tell it during the recent federal budget debate, the most urgent issues facing...
Gainesville, Texas—It’s an hour until dawn, but the 36 youths who live in Dorm 56 of the Gainesville State School are already...
Keying in “www.guidestar.org” lately has, at times, produced a screen with three little words: “Service not available.” Cyberspace now offers a synopsis...