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• About the YWA
  • The YWA's 4th Annual YouthShines! Art Auction!
  • The YWA's 5th Annual YouthShines! Art Auction!
  • History & Goals
  • Projects & Committees
• SE/LR Youth Organizations
• Job Postings
  • Peer Leader Positions
  • Youth Sports Health Coordinator
  • Director, Boston Urban Asthma Coalition (BUAC) and Massachusetts Asthma Advocacy Partnership (MAAP)
  • Senior Project Manager: Developing Pathways to Post-Secondary Education for Out-of-School Youth
  • Senior Project Manager: Building Local Systems of Pathways to Graduation for Off Track and Out-of-School Youth
  • Project Manager/Research Assistant: “On Ramps to Postsecondary”
  • After School Enrichment Club Leaders Needed
  • Coordinator of Youth Workers' Alliance
  • Youth Bloggers Wanted!
  • Director:Youth Development Network Program
  • Director of Youth Programming
  • Community Organizer:Watertown Youth Coalition
  • YOUTH DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST
  • Residential Program Director
  • Education and Outreach Coordinator
  • Youth Advocacy Coordinator
  • Director, Youth Violence Prevention
  • Trip Leader and Logistics Coordinator
• Opportunities
  • National AfterSchool Association 2009 Convention
  • Winter BEST Youth Worker Training
  • Grant Opportunity: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service Project Initiative
  • Computer Assembly and Micro-Enterprise Program
  • Introduction to the Ready by 21 Challenge Webinar
  • Emergency Overnight Homes needed by DCF (formerly DSS)
  • Math Games Training
  • Gathering of Hearts Clothing Drive for Families of Mississippi Delta
  • Mayor’s Food + Fuel Campaign In Partnership with Citizen’s Bank Foundation and the Black Ministerial Alliance Request for Response
  • CITY SPOTLIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD ENSEMBLES
  • Forum:OPTIMIZING CARE FOR MINORITY WOMEN WITH HIV/AIDS
  • Academic Learning, Youth Development Learning, Therapeutic Learning: How can they come together so that young people can succeed?
  • Church of St. Augustine & St. Martin Annual Holiday Bazaar
  • BOSTnet Roundtable- Quality Environments for Youth: Fun Learning, Matters!
  • IBA Cacique Winter workshops
  • The Coming Up Taller Awards Program Seeks Nominations
  • Nominations for the Harrison-Albany Corridor Strategic Plan (South End) Advisory Group
  • Proposals Due: “Annual Statewide Conference: Strategies for Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools”
  • TRAINING: Winter BEST Youth Development Approach to Violence Prevention
  • Please join us for a Funder-Grantee Discussion on the Economic Situation and Moving Forward on January 8th
  • BE A HOTLINE FOSTER PARENT FOR DCF--short-term/hotline homes for teens who are in foster care, or might be going into foster care
  • REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS: EZ Year Round Jobs for Youth 2009 Greening the Empowerment Zone
  • Ages 18-29 Utility Laborer Basic Training opportunity
  • Small Grant Opp:Northeastern Students4Giving
  • Leadership Institute Course on Behavior Management, Mental Health and Resiliency
• Resources
• Donate to the YWA!
• Jobs, Events, and Opportunities
  • Youth Events
  • Youth Opportunities
  • Events and Opportunities for Youth Workers
  • Jobs for Youth Workers
• News & Articles
  • BU Lab Risk Assessment Gets Failing Review
  • Scientific panel blasts NIH review of biolab
  • Teen Brain Still Maturing
  • U.S. Attorney announces anti-gang grants for Massachusetts
  • Pols stunned shooting range operating at high school, Aim to stop it
  • Boston After School & Beyond Announces Interim CEO & Transition Plan
  • Mayor and Superintendent Collaborate to Help Youth Bring Civics Back to Boston Public High Schools!
  • GOVERNOR PATRICK ANNOUNCES $5.1 MILLION IN GRANTS FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION
  • Campaigns focus on youth, gun violence
  • New role awaits a historic eyesore
  • No tuition to Harvard University for low-income families
  • Hub students aim for peace, answers in ‘Guns’ art exhibit
  • Street workers' effect limited by regulations
  • Power Amidst Chaos: A New Resource from Alliance for Justice
  • Roxbury school put in lockdown
  • Bypassing detention center
  • 1,948 city workers earn over $100,000
  • "And They Said You Wasn't Coming"
  • Boston Neighborhood Income Stats
  • Resist: Funding Social Change Since 1967
  • An Alliance For Art
  • Inmate Count in U.S. Dwarfs Other Nations'
  • YouthShines Art Auction feature articles!
  • Jorge Palmarin, South End youth activist, dies at 36
  • Mayor Menino's Message on Youth and the Summer
  • PBHA Fundraising for Franklin I-O
  • Diverse Turnout Makes YouthShines Art Auction a Success
  • Take a Stand Against Violence: Be a part of the JOBS Team movement
  • Children in Adult Jails
  • Problem students in pipeline to prison
  • Taking kids' voices seriously
  • Citizens for Juvenile Justice issues statement on The Annie E. Casey Foundation 2008 KIDS COUNT Essay on juvenile justice reform
  • Boston City Council Hearing on Safe Homes Initiative Sparks Lively Debate
  • A Better System for Young Offenders
  • Businesses help put 500 teens to work
  • Report Describes Missteps on gangs: Police, ministers missed signs of brewing violence
  • Conference Committee approves all pending increases for youth violence prevention funds
  • After child's shooting, a cease-fire call
  • Street artist inspires too much enthusiasm (A walk to see the Thayer Street mural might make a great field trip for youth programs)
  • 40-Day/40-Night Moratorium on Youth Violent Behavior
  • A Message from Darrin Howell
  • MAP Facebook Page Launched!
  • One 'Peace' at a time, real change comes
  • Map and list of all murders in Boston in 2008
  • IBA summer program winds to a close
  • Interesting stats on violence & our perceptions- from City Councilor Sam Yoon
  • All one 'hood at Blackstone
  • Boston Beyond Announces New Executive Director
  • Excellent article by YWA member - "GOP should show respect for community organizers"
  • Free Tutoring Available for BPS Students!
  • BPS Pathways to Excellence
  • Americans for the Arts Action Fund publishes side-by-side comparison of McCain/Obama
  • Weapon-Related Injury Data
  • Enough is Enough
  • "Hub Grads Come Up Short in College"
  • NEWSLETTER: The Forum for Youth Investment Forum Flash
  • Teen Empowerment: Rising to Our Challenge
  • Louis D. Brown Peace Institute without Operating Budget As of Nov. 30th
  • BPS School Supports Chart & Resource Tool: NEW TOOL FOR BPS PARTNERS & FUNDERS
  • IBA youth give creative spark to Paredes En Fuego: Art show opens at End of Season Celebration
  • IBA Youth Programs Get Cash from Conley
• Youth Activities Fund
• 2008 YouthShines! Art Auction
  • Purchase Tickets
• Highlights
  • Summer Sizzle 2008
  • YWA Apparel
  • YouthShines! Art Auction 2009