While it may take a village to raise a child, it seems to take even more to assess the quality of...
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
Firearm Violence Exposure and Serious Violent Behavior University of Michigan/Science magazineAbstract available free at www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/308/5726/1239a, or contact American Association for the Advancement...
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
Violence Among Rural Youth Violence and Rural Teens: Teen Violence, Drug Use, and School-Based Prevention Services in Rural AmericaRural Health Research Center,...
Foster children are so handicapped by their experiences in the child welfare system that four out of five fail to thrive as...
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
You know all that evidence that’s come out in recent years showing that after-school programs boost academic achievement? Researcher Robert Halpern has...
Growth of Youth-Serving Organizations The Bridgespan Group Available free online at www.bridgespangroup.org/growthstudy. “What happens when a youth-serving organization attempts to grow larger...
Child Welfare Substance Use and Need for Treatment among Youths Who Have Been in Foster Care U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health...
Foster Care Runaways Youth Who Run Away from Substitute Care Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago vailable free online at...
Everyone intuitively understands it – child welfare workers, their supervisors, the courts, even the kids. A revolving cast of caseworkers is not...
Child WelfareEstimating Financial Support for Kinship CaregiversThe Urban Institute This brief examines government payments to children in private kinship care (77 percent...
Immigrant Kids, Married Parents and Poverty The Health and Well-Being of Young Children of Immigrants The Urban Institute Available free at www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=311139 ...
While an increasing amount of research in recent years has focused on the features of successful youth programs, precious little research has...
It’s been 10 years since the nation’s fledgling juvenile drug courts began receiving federal funds to rehabilitate teen drug abusers. But despite...
The percentage of American eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders who reported using illicit drugs in the previous 12 months continued a gradual decline...
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
Child Welfare Foster Home Scarcity Means Many Youths Languish for MonthsHartford Courant Because of a shortage of foster care homes in Connecticut,...
Boardroom BrawlForbes The magazine looks at the battles at the Ewing Marion Kaufmann Foundation since Carl Schramm became CEO in 2002. The...