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Ed Dept. Shuffles Research, Safe Schools Offices

Several offices and responsibilities are being shifted at the U.S. Department of Education in an effort to improve the quality of research...

Service-Learning Sits in School

In the only state that makes every youth perform “service” in order to graduate from high school, the concept of service has...

Aiding Front-Line Youth Workers

The human service work force is arguably the least visible part of the American labor market of 134 million wage earners. A...

Raising Youth Worker Wages

Brooke Harvey , Project AssociateJoyce Shortt, Co-DirectorNational Institute on Out-of-School TimeWellesley, Mass. While there is no question that the road to increasing...

Gay Coverage Without Spin

Bill MaierVice PresidentFocus on the FamilyColorado Springs, Colo. I’m writing to let you know how much I appreciated Andrew Beadle’s fair, balanced,...

A Preference for Sexual Orientation

Liz Fletcher Brown Mentoring Program CoordinatorFort Worth, TexasIn the article “Gay Youth Leaders?” [September], you and others consistently referred to sexual orientation...

Achieving Dreams

Marina WintonChief Executive Officer“I Have a Dream” FoundationNew York, N.Y. In response to Bill Treanor’s “Nose Knows” column [September], I would like...

Harm Reduction Hurts

Sandra S. BennettDirectorNorthwest Center for Health & SafetyPortland, Ore. Regarding the viewpoint article by Robert Sharpe, “U.S. Drug Policy: Maximizing Harm Reduction”...

Healing Indian Healthcare Wounds

Sara Jumping Eagle Pine Ridge Reservation, S.D. I’m an Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge reservation [and] a pediatrician doing an adolescent...

Corrections

An article in the September Youth Today, “Gun Safety Programs Take a Shot,” incorrectly stated the estimated number of children reached through...

A Delicate Balance

There is a new mantra on Capitol Hill: scientifically based research. The term is used more than 100 times in the No...

Of Men and Mice

Here’s a story from the friendly skies. One day last summer, on a flight from Atlanta to New York, I came across...

The Truth About Jobless Teens

By Andrew Sum and Nathan Pond Substantially weakened national labor market conditions since the early winter of 2001 have dramatically reduced job...

Worthy Wages for Youth Workers

Few topics are of more interest to youth service practitioners than insuring a decent income for face-to-face youth workers. Paradoxically, few topics...

Ten Years in Print

Youth Today – the Newspaper on Youth Work began publishing in September 1992. Our survival has always been in doubt, our funding...

Are You Bored Into Complacency?

What a pity that for many youth workers, one common side effect of their difficult work is the loss of astonishment. They...

Broken Promises Hurt CBOs

Marcy MistrettDirector for Training and EvaluationNational Funding Collaborative on Violence PreventionWashington, D.C. In response to the article about the National Campaign Against...

Foster Parent Twilight Zone

Karen Olson MannersExecutive DirectorChild & Family Services of Southwestern MichiganJoseph, Mich. I read with interest your article on foster parenting in the...

AIDS and Whores

AIDS, U.S. authorities told reporters and policy forums surrounding July’s World AIDS Conference in Barcelona, is just another teenage attitude problem. “HIV...