At eight o’clock each weekday morning, 50 young men and women in bright red shirts start flailing their arms and touching their toes in the War Memorial Plaza across ...
www.idn.org can overwhelm first-time visitors with its attempt to cover the multitude of development issues affecting adults and youth worldwide, from economic ...
This month the kids of America will engage in their annual right of gleeful fantasy, dressing up like princesses and goblins, witches and Darth Mauls, trick or ...
Think your agency provides pretty good mental health or substance abuse services to youth? Get ready to prove it, or risk losing a chunk of your government funds.
Democrats used opinion polls and statistics to support amendments to provide funding for prevention programs. Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Nebr.) quoted a Harris poll showing ...
Despite a barrage of graphic images — Blair Witches in the woods, gun debates in Congress and real-life massacres at schools across the country — violence among high ...
Juvenile Justice officials here are proud of their new 190-bed, $50.5 million juvenile detention facility with its gymnasiums, its mental health ward and 10 ...
Restraining enraged kids puts youth workers in legal, moral morass
”You’re holding me too tight.”
Youth worker Bernadette Wilson wondered if she should loosen her ...
Jill Duerr Berrick, et al.
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Foster care is the “cure” that can be worse than the disease, according to “The Tender ...
Drowned out in the congressional cacophony last month over putting safety locks on guns and displaying the Ten Commandments in public buildings were some of the most ...
Whether it is being able to take your kid to a dentist or feeling confident of a safe childbirth, the color of your skin or thickness of your wallet may make a ...
In the wake of the shooting at Columbine High School, the media dragged out its school-horror map: Pearl, Miss., West Paducah, Ky., Jonesboro, Ark., Springfield, ...
Everybody in the country has now chimed in on what went wrong in Littleton. By the morning after, some 60,000 messages appeared on the AOL Internet chatroom labeled ...
Working in the juvenile justice field is like living in a walled city with a monster just outside the gates. The monster is the “get tough” movement and its effect on ...
John P. Moore and Craig P. Terrett
Institute for Intergovernmental Research, Tallahassee, FL.
Report summary available free from the Institute at (800) 446-0912, ...
As a career 4-H youth development professional (now retired), I was upset to learn that the National 4-H Council would partner with Philip Morris to design, implement ...
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