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...year-olds who volunteer for a full year of service in schools in underserved communities. The Young Heroes component was started in 1995 when Liana Gonzalez, a precocious 13-year-old, asked why she couldn't volunteer in her Boston neighborhood like the older City Year corps members. The youth program has recently gone national thanks to a major investment by Bank of America...
...back to the county the money that it had been spending to incarcerate those Deschutes kids. By giving up 16 out of 26 beds for young offenders at the state facility, Deschutes recouped nearly $4 million over seven years and put that money toward what it called the Community Youth Investment Program. The county assigned social workers to provide guidance and parenting skills in homes with newborns who had at least one parent on probation or parole. It began screening kindergartners for antisocial tendencies; those most at risk were singled out for special attention...
...latest edition of the Institute of Politics’ (IOP) twice-annual youth voter survey revealed that campaign managers across the country are not doing enough to target the youth vote—and are paying for their oversight with lost elections. The survey, which polled campaign managers in some of the most competitive races across the country, found that they generally do not consider youth voter outreach to be a high priority—and that two-thirds did not even know what percentage of the electorate was accounted for by voters ages 18 to 24. The results were...
...Apparently Misha Goldfeder, Arielle Pensler, and Anna Podolsky are not your typical freshman. Coach Peter Brand’s three newest recruits have thrived helping the Crimson to a 2nd place finish in the Ivy League and a No. 4 national ranking the USFCA Coaches’ Poll. The youth movement has been led by Goldfeder, who has fenced much of the spring season with a nagging thumb injury on her weapon hand. The Rochester N.Y. native, apparently unfazed by the handicap, placed first in this past weekend’s IFA Individual Championship for women’s foil...
...rally to beat Dartmouth and claim a share of the Ivy Title. One week later, we drove through sleet and rain to see the Crimson fall to the same Big Green team in a playoff in Providence. Last year, I covered a team plagued by youth, inexperience and injuries—a squad that fell out of the Ivy title picture before the second round of Ivies even started. Now, as the Crimson goes dancing for the first time in four years, I can’t help but feel a little left out. Despite winning gold in men?...