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What's New Update: (March
22, 2007)
Perspectives On Youth is currently sailing forward! We are
working hard on one of our most varied editions to date for our
Summer 2007 edition.
As
always, we welcome you to explore Perspectives
On Youth’s extensive multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary
content and resources.
What's New Update: (October
22, 2006)
Perspectives
On Youth
is
pleased to add listings to its Conferences Section which now includes
conferences for youth professionals in multiple disciplines through
February 2007. To view them, please click here.
Many thanks
to the PerspectivesOnYouth.org Site visitors who alerted us a major
national conference that will take place in New Orleans:
2006 Youth Service Institute: Building the Movement
Youth Service America
December 5 - 7, 2006 – New Orleans, LA
Hotel Monteleone of New Orleans
Contact: Phone: (202) 296-2992; Fax: (202)
296-4030
As countless children, youth workers and others continue
to cope with numerous severe issues in post Katrina New Orleans, the
slow-yet steady reemergence of the city as a popular conference hub
is encouraging news as New Orleans and
surrounding areas continue to rebuild. More than a year has passed
since the people of New Orleans endured the
wrath of Hurricane Katrina and the (amazingly still) unfathomable
destruction left in its wake.
Conferences held in the struggling city—and
in the surrounding impacted areas of the Gulf Coast
region—may seem insignificant when considered in the totality
of the mass destruction and myriad issues surrounding the
disaster. Pragmatically, such
an assertion may be correct. Each conference held in the area,
however, is in fact a (regardless of how small) contribution to its
rebuilding and revitalization. Conferences that take place in
impacted areas which also happen to held by professional youth
advocacy organizations provide an essential form of assistance to the
children of New Orleans. To date, issues of Katrina that concern the
children of the disaster have been glossed over in sporadic piece
meal fashion by the media. Funding for assistance to young victims
and for youth programs are significantly lacking and often difficult
to obtain. There is an immeasurable scope of immediate work that
needs to be done; countless people (still) needing assistance or
additional help; and vast and vital planning for future development.
Youth focused conferences held in New Orleans have the potential
to underscore the importance of addressing the numerous needs of the
young victims. Considered from that perspective, such conferences may
in fact be much more significant than they initially appear.
--Joi Kohlhagen
Summer/Fall 2006
Summary of What's New:
·
Articles
Section by Youth Today
Magazine
·
The Whittier Journal Of Child
& Family Advocacy (WJCFA) of The Center of Children's Rights
(CCR) of Whittier Law School
·
Conferences
·
Books On
Youth
·
The
Program Perspective
·
Editorial
& Advisory Boards
·
POY
Archive Section
·
Acknowledgments
·
POY
Time Line
·
About
POY
Details of What's New
Articles Section
The
Articles Section For The Summer/Fall 2006 Edition of
perspectivesonyouth.org is
Perspectives On Youth Interdisciplinary Agencies and Programs:
Problems & Progress.
This Section features 12
in-depth investigative and feature articles by Youth Today Magazine.
The
Whittier Journal of Child & Family Advocacy
·
In its Winter/Spring 2006 Edition, Perspectivesonyouth.org introduced its
new Section, The Whittier Journal of Child & Family Advocacy
(WJCFA). Perspectives On Youth is pleased
to present a second Edition of 6 new articles of the Journal for the
current Summer/Fall 2006 Edition of POY.
·
The Journal, which is part of the Center for Children's Rights
at Whittier Law School is
an outstanding scholarly publication that promotes the well-being of
children through its consistently outstanding material of research,
articles, and other resources to advocate for the rights and empowerment
of children. To learn more about the journal and the Whittier Law School Center for
Children's Rights, please visit http://www.law.whittier.edu/centers_clinics/childcenter.asp
The
Program Perspective
Perspective On Youth’s Performing And Media Arts
Editor, David Lefkowitz, presents an intriguing and up
close look at the inspiring Program TADA!, a theatrical program that touches the lives of
over 50,000 children each year.
As discussed in this new update to The Program
Perspective, TADA! continues to successfully realize its mission to empower children
and to use musical theater to help them feel better while learning
about themselves and their world through exposure to varied people
with a commonality of experience.
Books On Youth
Perspectives
on Youth Presents its updated Books On Youth Section, which adds
listings of noteworthy books published
during 2005 and early to mid 2006.
The
Conferences Section
- The
Summer/Fall 2006 Edition of Perspectives On
Youth
includes extensive listings of many conferences ranging from
July, 2006 through November, 2006 on an array of multiple
disciplines and specialties of interest to interdisciplinary
professionals that work with youth. POY will post an
update of additional conferences taking place beyond November,
2006 during this fall.
- Many
thanks to the PerspectivesOnYouth.org Site visitors who
alerted us a major international conference that will take place
in New Orleans:
The
114 Annual Convention of the American
Psychological Association during August 10-13.
As
countless children, youth workers and others continue to cope with
numerous severe issues in post Katrina New Orleans, the reemergence
of the city as a popular conference hub is encouraging news as New Orleans and
surrounding areas continue to rebuild.
What's New with Members of
the
Editorial and Advisory Boards of POY
- POY is pleased to welcome William Wesley Patton to its Editorial
Board as of August 1, 2006 to assume of the
role of Children’s Law Editor. As noted in
Professor’s Patton’s biography, he is a nationally
renowned Children’s Law Expert who has worked in literally
hundreds of children’s law cases throughout his
illustrious career. His recent book, Legal Ethics in Child Custody and Dependency Proceedings
(Cambridge University Press, 2006) has received wide
spread critical acclaim. POY is honored to have him join its
Editorial Board.
- Patrick Boyle, Articles Section
Editor for POY has begun teaching at Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland adding
to his busy schedule as Editor of Youth Today Magazine, and columnist of A Father’s Place.
- David Lefkowitz, Performing and Media Arts Editor
for POY, has recently
become part of the International
Association of Theater Critics, in addition to his preexisting
responsibilities as a Member of the Drama Desk, Outer
Critics Circle, and American
Theater Critics Association. David also joins New York Theater News as
its Off-Broadway Editor while continuing his many roles in
various capacities and a theater journalist, critic, and
playwright.
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