Friday, November 5^th

FindYouthInfo.gov

FindYouthInfo.gov is the U.S. government Web site that helps you create, maintain, and strengthen effective youth programs. Included are youth facts, funding information, and tools to help you assess community assets, generate maps of local and federal resources, search for evidence-based youth programs, and keep up-to-date on the latest, youth-related news. Visit the Site

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What Information Can Police, Schools Share?

The principal of an Anne Arundel County middle school heard that members of the football team were forming a gang. He contacted the police liaison, who called the parents, and one mother discovered a questionable website and made her son take it down.

Authorities convened a meeting of parents, police, the principal and a student advocate. "The boys advised that they didn't form this group to cause problems," according to an Anne Arundel County police report. Read More

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Dropping the Gang Colors for Soccer Cleats

On fields across Arlington County, kids from different neighborhoods, different schools and sometimes even different gangs come together twice a year to play soccer.

For a day filled with sports, educational activities and motivational speakers, the teens leave rivalries and the threat of violence on the sidelines.

The tournaments, developed by the Arlington County Gang Task Force in 2005, have attracted local and national attention. Read More

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A Powerful Idea on Youth Violence

As a former beat cop, Ron Huberman, the new chief of public schools in Chicago, learned long ago that violence among young urban people could not be solved simply by hauling ever larger numbers of children off to jail.

With the prompting and support of his boss, Mayor Richard M. Daley, Mr. Huberman is trying a new approach to the violence that has killed and maimed hundreds of young people and turned Chicago's poorest neighborhoods into precincts of terror and despair. Read More

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