Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) Several publications spun off from P/PV’s recent evaluation of Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) – an eight-year,...
National Foster Parent Association (NFPA) According to the NFPA, “neither the Internal Revenue Service nor commercial tax manuals offer information on unique...
Center for American Progress This report, produced to shore up support for service programs, says they are effectively addressing a new array...
U.S. Department of Labor Twenty-year-old females are 20 percent more likely to be enrolled in college than are their male counterparts, says...
Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University Employment rates for 16- to 19-year-olds have been declining or stagnant since 1989, and the...
YouthBuild USA This report on YouthBuild’s Youthful Offender Project stresses the need for re-entry programs to prevent recidivism. Part of the U.S....
The Urban Institute This report examines the results of five programs initiated from the 1990s through 2000 to help low-income noncustodial fathers...
Cooperative Institutional Research Program/UCLA The majority of college freshmen answering this survey reported that they had experienced the “right amount” of parental...
Journal of Adolescent Health Adolescent sexual health research studies educate youth and encourage them to practice safe sex. However, young people’s participation...
American Sociological Review High school males in contact sports such as football and wrestling are at heightened risk of participating in serious...
Bureau of Justice Statistics Among the findings reported here, based on data gathered by the National Crime Victimization Survey and the FBI’s...
UNICEF Each day about 26,000 children under age 5, most of whom live in developing regions, die from preventable causes. UNICEF is...
Healthy Teen Network This report focuses on the importance of involving at-risk youth in positive activities in order to combat teen pregnancy,...
Healthy lines: This graphic of the network in Santa Cruz in 2006 shows many agencies, with arrows indicating helpful interactions among them....
Internet Solutions for Kids and the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire Available in Pediatrics at http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/121/2/e350...
RAND Available at http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/2008/RAND_RB9321.pdf Public health campaigns to reduce teen smoking have shown positive results in recent years, particularly those that are...
The Reclaiming Futures initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Foundation has been successfully working to reform systems of care for juvenile...
In a “top-down” effort to improve the quality and use of scientific evidence in policy areas that affect youth, the W.T. Grant...
The Chicago Tribune The number of “disrupted” international adoptions – in which adoptive parents seek to reverse adoptions and return the children...
The New York Times Comics-based literacy programs have spread since their creation six years ago by graduate students at Columbia University. The...