Welcome to Youth Today Online — the Web site of the newspaper on youth work.

Youth Today is an independent, monthly national trade periodical-with 24/7/365 online access-for professional youth workers and administrators of youth-serving agencies, and researchers and public policy staff who work on youth issues.

With a national distribution, we cover the business of starting, operating and evaluating programs in areas such as juvenile justice, foster care, mentoring, substance abuse, sexual behavior, after school, youth employment and overall youth development.

Other issues covered include child welfare; college and careers; gang and violence prevention; adolescent health; teen pregnancy and parenting; after-school programs and mentoring; best practices; and much more.

Our mission is quality, independent journalism devoted entirely to policy issues and programs affecting children and youth, especially the disadvantaged.

Youth Today is published by the American Youth Work Center (AYWC), a nonprofit founded by Publisher Bill Treanor in 1984 and based in Washington, D.C. AYWC runs two programs: Youth Today (since 1992) and the International Practical Training Program (since 1985), which places foreign human service workers in U.S. agencies for an 18-month period.