January is Poverty Awareness in America month, but according to this year's poll, Americans continue to underestimate the number of poor in America. This January 2003 ...
The Los Angeles River looks like a storm drain and sometimes smells like a sewer. But for hundreds of local students, it's an unparalleled outdoor classroom, thanks ...
Annapolis, Maryland) - Anne Arundel County sits on the shores of Chesapeake Bay, halfway in between Baltimore and Washington, DC. According the county government ...
For many young people, voting has never been worth the trouble. But this election may turn that around. Outrage is drawing thousands into electoral politics for the ...
This is an informational/promotional folder on Youth Venture.
Youth Venture empowers young people to create and launch their own enterprises, and through these ...
Even if your youth program can't afford a full-fledged independent evaluation, you can still set up systems to assess how well you are reaching your objectives. This ...
For ten teenagers from rural Mississippi, a summer in and around the corridors of power of Washington, D.C. provided life lessons, and new friendships. Read about ...
It's not easy to explain the way the U.S. government works to a child. But the author of Constitution Translated for Kids says it is more important now than ever to ...
Instead of being "scared straight," youth who commit nonviolent crimes like shoplifting are learning about choices, consequences, and their own worth through ...
The latest version of this annual report presents data in five major sections: population, family, and neighborhood; economic security; health conditions and health ...
About 83,000 people between the ages of 13 and 19 were convicted of felonies in 1998, accounting for about one in 10 of all felony convictions. Once imprisoned or ...
Teens face enormous pressure to become sexually active. The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy estimates that two-thirds of high school students have sex ...
This volume is a compilation of three case studies of New York City organizations that have started Beacons, school-based community centers that offer young people ...
The importance of community expectations and social responsibility is one of the recurring themes in this volume of reflections on youth participation and youth ...
This volume introduces a set of framing questions for gauging levels of youth involvement in community development and uses that framework to summarize the findings ...
What is youth action? What roles do community development organizations play in supporting youth action? What examples do we have of efforts that blend youth ...
There are powerful factors pushing community development corporations to broaden their mandates and strategies to include youth and longstanding factors that make ...
Youth Action provides the fullest treatment of the question, "What is youth action and how can it be supported?" Based on papers written in 1999 for the Evelyn and ...
