About Youth Today - History & Mission
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.
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Weekly Notes: PREA grants available, Walsh Act legislation, and next week's council meeting
| 02/03/2012
***Hope everyone who cares enjoys the Super Bowl. True story: JJ Today grew up equidistant from the Giants and Patriots, but attached to the Raiders because of a childhood love for both Howie Long and N.W.A. Alas, hindsight is 20/20.
***There are 352 days left in the first term of President Barack Obama, and there has still not been a nominee to serve as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The new acting administrator of OJJDP, Melodee Hanes, will lead her first meeting of the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention next Friday.
For the uninitiated in federal tangents, this is a council of leaders from the Justice Department and other federal agencies that meet regularly to coordinate on...
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From the YT Archives: The Push for More L3Cs
Will Obama's State of the Union propel limited profit models for youth development and employment training?
John Kelly | 01/26/2012 | Full Article
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State of the Union Speech Touches on DREAM Act, Dropout Laws and Job Training
John Kelly | 01/25/2012 | Full Article
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Melodee Hanes Named Acting Administrator of OJJDP
John Kelly | 01/18/2012 | Full Article
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