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Monday, January 14th, 2008(Submitted September 2007) INTRODUCTION This case study reports on the implementation of Paint the Town 2007 (PTT) and relies on written documentation, first person observations, and interviews with the internal PTT administrative team and external PTT project partners. VISIONARY LEADERSHIP Visionaries transcend what is familiar to see what the familiar cannot. They perceive the “new [...]
Generation XXX: 49% of female college students say porn is ok
Monday, January 7th, 2008A groundbreaking study of 813 college students at six American colleges and universities by BYU called, “Generation XXX: Pornography Acceptance and Use Among Emerging Adults,” found: 49 percent of the female college students they surveyed find pornography acceptable. Only 37 percent of their own fathers agreed. … 86 percent of college men and 31 percent [...]
Seduced Myspace teen kills self; parents sue.
Monday, January 7th, 2008The parents of a California teenager who committed suicide after being sexually assaulted by a Celina man she met through MySpace are suing the popular social-networking Web site in Dallas court. According to the lawsuit, the 14-year-old girl, identified as Julie Doe, began a “cyber-relationship” with Kiley Ryan Bowers of Celina in 2005. Their online [...]
Ten Facts About New York City’s Children
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007+ Fact One: One out of every 4 people in NYC is a child. + Fact Two: Every day 337 babies are born to NYC residents. + Fact Three: Every day 2 babies die before their first birthday. + Fact Four: Every day many babies are born at risk: # 174 babies are born into [...]
Wednesday Weekly Webcast
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007In Whose Image?
NYS Commissioner: Why
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007LPAC Holistic Leadership Series Hon. Gladys Carrion, Esq., Commissioner NYS Office of Children and Family Services “How Faith Communities Can Help with the Crisis of Children and Families of Color” Rev. Dr. Raymond Rivera of Latino Pastoral Action Center hosted Commissioner Gladys Carrion of the NYS Office of Children and Family Services yesterday as part [...]
Blogging NOC07: More Mookish Behavior by MTV
Friday, November 9th, 2007Flying to San Diego to give the “Mooks, Midriffs, Myspace & More” seminar at the National Outreach Convention, a scene on a new MTV show caught my eye (thanks to JetBlue). A college-aged guy was getting his genitals waxed on camera, in front of a mixed group of guys and girls who relished in his [...]
Wednesday Weekly Webcast
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007A Vision of Today’s Students Courtesy: Digital Ethnography. Transcript, with fascinating comment thread, including this: I come from a country in which a majority of people earn less than 1 dollar a day and I say what are you complaining about. The reason you spend so much time in Facebook,or playing with your laptops is [...]
40 More Tools for the Process (Bagged Lunch Morsel 7)
Friday, November 2nd, 2007+ Bagged Lunch Morsel 1; Morsel 2; Morsel 3; Morsel 4; Morsel 5; Morsel 6, Morsel 7; Morsel 8 This is post 7 of 8 in a series based on the curriculum I wrote for last year’s Urban Youth Workers Institute Reload training events: “Bagged Lunch and a Drop of Oil: Multiplying Re$ource$ for Urban [...]
Gangs of New York
Thursday, November 1st, 2007THEY prey on high-school students, second-generation immigrants who want protection or a sense of identity. And they boast on their YouTube and MySpace pages – posting pictures and detailing their exploits. As New York’s gang population swells to more than 15,000, membership is increasingly Hispanic – spurred by a wave of street toughs from Mexico [...]
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