On July 17, 1938, pilot Douglas Corrigan filed a flight plan from Brooklyn to California and landed in Dublin, Ireland twenty-eight hours later. He blamed a faulty compass. Corrigan’s story earned him the nickname “Wrong Way Corrigan” and a permanent place in aviation folklore. A youth-serving organization does not get that kind of forgiveness. When a program…
My June 30 post covered what courts require when organizations supervise staff. This post covers the other half of the supervision picture: what courts require when organizations supervise the children in their programs. The legal standard is less obvious than most administrators assume. Furthermore, a 2024 meta-analysis on overparenting and a growing body of developmental psychology research give YSOs a…
We have long known about the replication crisis in social science research — the problem that few findings hold up in later studies. In April 2026, the largest replication project ever attempted found that only about half of the existing research holds up under further testing. This finding has profound implications for youth-serving organizations that want to follow evidence-based practices.