New Website Provides Information on Student Loan Consolidation Programs - Federal Student Loans and Private Student Loans
Student loan consolidation programs for federal student loans and private students loans benefit students in reducing or eliminating student loan debt.

Explore Outdoor Community Service
Whether or not you have ever personally experienced the excitement and fulfillment associated with community service, it is never too late to take it up a notch. Contemporary community service organizations offer to interested individuals the opportunity to service a community through their actions. Ranging from a simple project like a daycare service for young women professionals and their infants, to a more complex one like building the local school facilities of a village in Eastern Africa, community services are part of a global effort to assist another group of people by offering experts advice and the required set of skills.

Gulfsouth Youth Action Fund Awards Grant to Atlanta-based Youth Program
Funding Empowers Project South’s Youth Radio Show

Harmful Amendment to JJDPA to Increase Youth Prosecuted in the Adult Criminal Justice System
This month, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will consider S. 678, the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2009. S. 678 will reauthorize the bipartisan Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA), which has provided critical protections to youth in the juvenile justice system for over 30 years. The Campaign for Youth Justice () (CFYJ) and hundreds of other organizations who support the bill have been monitoring the progress of this legislation. S. 678 is positive bill that offers a lot of protections for youth and their communities.