Richard Louv explores how faith-based organizations around the country are reaching out to support children and families in new ways. The idea is community: not just ...
Lisa is 28 years old, an 8th grade graduate, and a mother of four, who did what Congress required in 1996, and left welfare for paying work. In our monthly column, ...
Shirley Hedges has cared for more than 200 children living in foster care. "Congress," she says, "has to understand that it takes more money to raise these kids into ...
Over half-a-million children are in the child welfare system due to abuse or neglect. In this column, Julee Newberger describes her experience as a Court Appointed ...
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 ...
The welfare changes that were signed into law in 1996 have directly affected more children than any laws in recent memory. The law changed welfare benefits from an ...
As thousands hit time limits on welfare assistance, states are struggling to give people the skills to find not just a job, but work that will help them pull their ...
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 ...
Some years ago Mother Theresa was criticized for having accepted money from a reputed mafia kingpin. The money was given to help the indigent anywhere in the world. ...
The author discusses the historical and theoretical place of young people in nation states. The idea of children’s citizenship is discussed with reference to the ...
Responsibility for prevention work often lands by default in the laps of classroom teachers, many of whom find teaching prevention curricula distasteful. Imagine your ...
A comprehensive website offering news briefs, reports, tools, and organizations in every state tells the stories of what works and what doesn't in empowering ...
There has been increasing concern about the tendency of children from low-income families to drop out of high school, become teen parents, become involved in ...
Kids selling candy door-to-door or at the local shopping center have become a fixture of the American landscape – and a headache for child labor investigators.
