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Starting as a small group of youth enrichment camps more than 20 years ago, the summer programming is now a vibrant group of 11 summer youth enrichment camps and programs created and directed by Harvard undergraduates, supported by Harvard University staff and resources, private donations, public programs and dedicated volunteers. Each year, the University provides well in excess of $300,000 in cash and in-kind support to PBHA and its summer community service programs. PBHA itself raises additional cash and in-kind resources, making the Summer Urban Program a true community partnership...
Marcy Mousavi '99, a student in my course this spring--of course, today's students are largely the children of the adolescents and youth of the 1960s--told me that her parents have been rock-ribbed conservative Republicans all her life; and so she was astonished last summer to discover packed away in the basement of her home a rug into which was knit the visage of John F. Kennedy...
...PBHA program called Cambridge Youth Enrichment Project (CYEP), which helped organize tenants to fight against their landlords, became a sticking point between Harvard and the city of Cambridge...
...Christian right takes this belief a step further, suggesting that gay activists are in fact attempting to poison the youth of America with same-sex propaganda. Christian conservatives fear that children are being exposed to gay alternatives too early in life, when they are not old enough to make a mature judgment about their own inclinations. The Utah legislature recently passed a bill banning gay clubs in state high schools. And at Merrimack High School in New Hampshire, teachers have stopped using a film on the life of Walt Whitman because it mentions...
...Children's Defense Fund works to fix this disconnect between what Americans say they want for children and what they actually do for them. With offices just a few blocks from Capitol Hill, the Defense Fund stands out among youth advocacy groups for its Washington-based organization and strategic coalitions, its many alliances with state and local groups, and its many service-oriented programs. In the District of Columbia, the Defense Fund has established City Lights, which works with severely troubled adolescents. At what was once the Tennessee farm of Roots author Alex Haley, the Fund conducts leadership training sessions...