Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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Youth Work’s Vitamin E
By Jane QuinnThe term “enrichment” is gaining currency in education and youth development circles, yet precious little has been written about what...
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The Enigma of Scientifically Based Youth Work
The Enigma of Scientifically Based Youth Work From the strangest quarters, “scientifically based research” leading to government funding decisions is now all...
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Hip to Value of Music
Michael DublinSouth Central Church of ChristRaleigh, NC Thanks for Andrew Hahn’s column in on Hip-Hop (“Using Hip-Hop in Youth Programs,” March). I...
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Good as Gold
Robert C. MecumExecutive DirectorLighthouse Youth ServicesCincinnati, OH Thanks for your terrific article about George Belitsos, the CEO of Youth and Shelter Services...
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Congress’s Anonymous “Healthy Youth Prevention Program” ($100,000)
The names of actual groups or programs in the criminal justice, education and social service sectors directly funded by Congress amply illustrate...
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Ignorance on School Security
Kenneth S. Trump, PresidentNational School Safety and Security ServicesCleveland, OH Small Nonprofits As I read the February issue of Youth Today, I...
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Go Global, Too
Rosemary Tisch, FounderKids Are SpecialFamily Education FoundationSan Jose, CA I just finished reading your [February] article, “U.S. Youth Programs Go Global.” Because...
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Early and Sustained Supports Needed
Early investments have big payoffs. We know this from the High/Scope Perry Preschool Project in Michigan that is often credited for the...
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Forging 21st Century Partnerships
Now that the ink is dry on the recently reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), it’s time to examine the implications...
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Sane School House Safety
No national youth policy issue is more off track than the effort to make schools safe for children and staff. A series...
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“Senior Year” Refreshes, ASH Chokes
I have never met a “typical teenager.” Sullen, alienated, immature, impulsive, rebellious, obnoxious, immortality-deluded, high-risk? I’ve encountered as many grownups (me, for...
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Wanted: New Words, New Policies
This just in: “Tween” has been chosen as the 2001 Word-of-the-Year by “Webster’s.” Prepubescent 9- to 12-year-olds are enough of a market...
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Betwixt and Between
In many people’s minds, welfare teens and teen parents are synonymous. But they’re not. The first group is much larger than the...
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Does ‘Adolescence’ Mean ‘Abstain’ from Everything’?
America’s ultimate prevention goal is that no teenager ever have sex, drink alcohol, witness explicit media, enjoy free time not rigidly structured...
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Pork: Best Killed by Kindness
No, not the sputtering United Way, but the unraveling of Congress’ ill-advised practice of “earmarking” groups in the children and youth field...
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A Summit Too Sad
Somewhere in the bowels of the White House someone someday somehow will see the connection between the Presidents’ Summit for America’s Future...
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I Love and Hate My Job, Maybe
There is a tendency in youth work to either romanticize the task – “We’re saving kids, doing the Lord’s...
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Compassionate Conversion
“Of all the survivors of the Clinton era, the most unlikely may be AmeriCorps, the administration’s ‘national service’ program.” So wrote Les...
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The Hardy Life of Worst Practice
Much is made in the youth service field of “best practice,” as well it should be. Striving for positive results for young...
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YAA: More Important Than You Think
Convinced that the Younger Americans Act (YAA) is the legislative marker that could finally put youth development on the map? You are...
