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Youth Program News and Press Releases

Gateway Computer Founder Ted Waitt Directs $10 Million to Waitt Institute
Gateway founder and former Chairman Ted Waitt today announced the creation of the Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention, an unprecedented new operating foundation dedicated to reducing family and community violence. Surrounded by athletes and youth, Waitt made the announcement at a Family Violence Prevention Fund Founding Fathers event in New York City.

Hyperion to Empower Nonprofit Organizations Through Software Donation Program
Hyperion, the global leader in Business Performance Management software, and Gifts In Kind International, the world's leading charity in product philanthropy, today announced a new global software donation program to help nonprofit organizations.

Teens Rally to Promote Proposal for Youth Vote
Critics have said that teenagers are too immature or lack the knowledge to make a wise and informed decision in the political arena. The association hopes to break the stereotype by demonstrating their commitment to the issue.

Schwarzenegger Announces Appointments
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced a number of new appointments

Youth Summit for Online Safety Teaches Teens Internet Street Smarts
The program acknowledges and plays into the fact that teens use technology differently; unlike adults, who generally view computers as tools for business, most teens see technology as a social enabler.

Track runs on volunteer army
Richardson tells stories of troubled families who find a way to bond when the children join youth track programs. Things seem different in the warm, sunny, nonthreatening circuslike atmosphere of a track meet, where parents and kids are working toward a common goal.

Lockyer describes danger at home
The home can be the most dangerous place for many children, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer told an Oxnard audience of social service professionals and elected officials on Wednesday.

President and Mrs. Bush Discuss Helping America's Youth Initiative
Children throughout America face a lot of problems. Some young people have trouble staying in school or going to college, others get caught up in risky behaviors like drug use or violence. And some boys and girls in the United States have a parent in prison.

Placement sought for 11 Clark center residents
The Clark Adolescent Center in San Diego will close its residential program for teenagers with emotional and behavioral problems at the end of April because of financial issues.

Tragedy turned city’s eyes to troubled youth
The plan would make nonprofit organizations accountable for their work with youths, add more recreational and after-school programs and assess the needs of individual neighborhoods. The complete overhaul will allow the city to offer programs with proven results.

Umpqua Bank Expands Innovative Volunteer Program to California
The Connect Volunteer Network provides full-time Umpqua Bank associates with 40 hours of paid volunteer time per year to devote to youth and education organizations and schools. Umpqua's 300 California associates have the potential to collectively donate more than 12,000 hours to youth and education programs in the next year.

STATE OF THE COUNTY
San Diego County used to be America's best kept secret. But more than 50,000 people move to San Diego each year. They bring cars and housing needs, putting pressure on our quality of life.

Doctor sounds alarm over medicated juvenile inmates
Soon after taking over as chief psychiatrist at San Diego County's Juvenile Hall in 2000, Dr. Marjorie Shuer said she discovered many of the children were being given such heavy doses of psychotropic drugs that they couldn't function in school and didn't want to leave their cells.

RAND Study Shows California Schools Trailing Other States in Most Areas
In an analysis issued Monday, RAND reports that California's public school system lags behind most of the nation on almost every objective measurement of student achievement, funding, teacher qualifications and school facilities. The first comprehensive examination of measurable dimensions of the state's education system, the study chronicles how the state's K-12 school system has fallen from national leadership 30 years ago to its current ranking near the bottom in nearly every objective category.

Blue Shield of California Foundation Awards Nearly $2 Million to 17 Organizations Throughout California
$200,000 to the Los Angeles-based Violence Intervention Program Community Mental Health Center Intervention and Prevention of Family Violence Among Foster Care Youth. The grant will fund domestic violence services for high-risk girls and boys ages 11 to 18.

Counselors face more students, less funding
Academic counselors serve a major role on community college campuses. Studies show that students who receive counseling earn better grades and stay in school longer. But many counselors, such as Peters, face student-to-counselor ratios of 2,000-to-1.

Outreach Targets Kids At-Risk, Raises Scores and More
The poetic outreach to at-risk youths, now armed with its own textbook and staffed by FSU graduate students and undergraduate interns under Gardner's direction, has empowered voices, improved skills and reduced recidivism at shelters, detention centers and alternative schools

Is Public Education Working? How Would We Know?
Some of these standards, like those of the No Child Left Behind Act, are new. We don't really know yet whether they're actually telling us what they say they are.

Fewer children in working families are uninsured, but many still falling through the cracks
The study found that these children were far more likely to be uninsured and less likely to have a usual source of health care than were children from nonworking poor and nonpoor families.

Politicians take on greater parenting role
California already has the nation's toughest helmet law for kids on bikes and skateboards, and calorie-laden soda pop was banned in elementary and junior high schools last year.

Charter school status is sought for Gompers, Keiller
Bands of parents and teachers are walking door-to-door in southeastern San Diego circulating petitions in hopes of transforming two failing neighborhood schools into high-achieving charter schools.

Acoma youth organization to work with California charity
The Boys & Girls Club of Acoma Pueblo is an after-school youth development agency that provides activities in education and career development, health and life skills, sports, fitness and recreation, service learning, the arts and character and leadership development.

The Joyful Child Foundation First Annual Holiday CD
The Joyful Child is devoted to the protection and enrichment of children, and recently launched its first program called Samantha's PRIDE, a community-based child watch program.

New social medium fosters impatience
Christina Rainie became frustrated when she couldn't contact her boyfriend for three days using instant messaging, e-mail and text messages. Instant communication is becoming the accepted norm when it comes to romantic relationships among young people.

Group helps others include kids with challenges
The Carmel Valley-based nonprofit group works to support recreational and social programs that include children with and without disabilities.

Teens go by the book with young listeners
In Solana Beach, teens involved with community service clubs from a variety of North County schools read aloud to children at St. Leo's Head Start. Upon completion of the program, the teens complete a survey and summary of the experience, and often say they gained a sense of accomplishment and increased self-confidence.

Less benefit in vehicle donations next year
The new law will make donating vehicles to charities less beneficial to donors. That will likely result in a drastic reduction in the popular programs that bring millions to local groups that provide services for the poor, the homeless, abused women and others.

Fitness of San Diego, CA kids shows slight increase
Council President Ken Germano, who founded Operation FitKids, a youth outreach initiative that brings fitness training, educational materials and equipment to schools, said the main reason kids ages 11 to 15 are unfit is because of physical inactivity.

Sailor finds new life through Prison Fellowship's Angel Tree program
The Angel Tree program is one of the programs conducted by Prison Fellowship Guam. Church volunteers purchase gifts for participating prisoners' children and deliver them to the kids, usually with messages from incarcerated parents.

Dodgers give back to community - Charity is year-round commitment
The focal point of the organization's charitable effort is the Dodgers Dream Foundation, which was founded in 1998 to provide educational, athletic and recreation opportunities for youth of the Greater Los Angeles community.

Piedmont's first Poetry Slam, co-sponsored by the Orion Fund and Youth Speaks
The goal of the Orion Fund established by Trott's family and friends is to support college students living with life-threatening illnesses and assist college students studying English and physics.

Padres target youth charities, Education, recreation, health at the center of their efforts
The Padres Scholars program targets bright students who face financial challenges and who also may not necessarily be straight-A achievers. The program recognizes a broad range of factors goes into a student's success and therefore endeavors to identify underrepresented groups and otherwise overlooked students.

Rodriguez has a passion for working with youth
Rodriguez has been at McLane for the last five years as a coach and an aide to disabled students. He is a track and field coach in the Special Olympics program. Although a passion for cross country is why Rodriguez coaches, his mission goes farther.

Teen center gets grant
At El Nido Teen Center (ENTC), giving teens the resources and tools to make healthy choices in their lives didn't work on a lean and malnourished funding stream. But a California Endowment grant just gave the center's prevention, health and leadership programs a vital $50,000 shot in the arm.

Youth Empowerment
Lorraine Bowman, President
4249 Manzanita Drive
San Diego, California 92105
info@empowering-youth.org