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YouthBuild Grants
U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao recently announced the award of $47 million
to 96 groups that will provide education in construction as well as leadership
training to at-risk young people across the United States, who will take part
in building affordable housing in their own communities. The U.S. Department
of Labor's YouthBuild program will include individuals who have been
in the juvenile justice system, youth aging out of foster care, high school dropouts,
and others.
Organizations chosen for YouthBuild funding
include workforce investment boards,
faith-based and community groups, and
local and nonprofit housing development
agencies. For more information on YouthBuild
grants and other Department of Labor
youth employment programs, visit www.doleta.gov/youth_services.
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NHSA Releases The Parenting Imperative
Policy Brief
The National Human Services Assembly (NHSA)
announces the release of The
Parenting Imperative: Investing in Parents
So Children and Youth Succeed. The
brief explains parenting success strategies and how these strategies can strengthen
families and communities. Community groups and family-serving agencies will find
best practices and recommendations. This twenty-page brief, the 22nd in a series
on Family Strengthening produced by NHSA, can be found at http://www.nassembly.org/fspc/index.html.
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Research Nuggets from TRU (Teenage Research
Unlimited)
Wonder how your Millennial campers and
staff think about money?? Check these ideas
out from the latest TRU View!
Do you know which discretionary items
rate the highest proportion of their spending
money?? If you guessed clothes, you'd
be right!
And even their clothes buying fits with
TRU's Armchair Activism™ theme
for teens and camp staff. For example,
environmental messages on the famous C&C
California organic
T-shirt line allow them to exercise their
advocacy by wearing their favorite Save
the Earth sound-bites such as "Pull the
Plug," "Go Paperless," or even "Flush Less"! For
those millennials looking to invest, they
can even start their own mutual funds!
Thrasher Funds (GendeX
Mutual Fund) allow these Passionate
Pragmatists™ to invest in markets
near and dear to their hearts such as Urban
Outfitters and Abercrombie & Fitch.
So what's the message to camp professionals?
This generation has money to spend, are
passionate about their causes, yet remain
pragmatic about the ways they act on these
concerns. Does this have you thinking about
how to stock your trading post/camp store?
OR… give
you incentives to give campers and staff
for a sundry of reasons from recruitment
to alumni rewards to even just returning
for another year? OR… give you an
idea for an end-of-the-season thank you
in the form of a gift certificate to a
clothing store?
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