John Kelly

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Web Watch for February 2002

Civic Engagement Community Building Resource Exchangewww.commbuild.org links visitors to a large, regularly updated database of resources and information about innovative and...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

As Kids Do Better, Should CBOs Get Credit?

With across-the-board improvements revealed in this year’s “America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2001” report (see page 40), some observers think...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

States Blow Smoke At Prevention Efforts, Study Says

Smoking tempers and words greeted a recent report claiming that just 5 percent of the $206 billion tobacco settlement with 46 states...

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America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2001

Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics This annual statistical snapshot indicates several encouraging changes in the condition...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

New Funds for Older Foster Youth

The Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation and Seattle-based Casey Family Programs (CSF) have created the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative to help,...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Will the Good News Rule Supreme?

The Supreme Court decision in June to let a youth group hold Bible study in a Milford, N.Y., elementary school guaranteed –...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Younger Americans Act Gets an Alaskan Boost

Supporters of the Younger Americans Act (YAA), introduced into the House as HR17 on the first day of the session this year,...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Job Corps Delivers, Study Says

The most extensive study of Job Corps in nearly 20 years says the nation’s largest youth employment training program is worth the...

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Beyond the Two-Parent Family: How Teenagers Fare in Cohabiting Couple and Blended Families

The Urban Institute As the number of unmarried couples with children continues to increase, most teenagers living in cohabiting families are better...

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Less Cost, More Safety: Guiding Lights for Reform in Juvenile Justice

Identifying challenges faced by youth workers in juvenile justice programs, the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) recognized programs that achieve “notable successes...

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Lessons from the Street and Unequal Protection: Corrupted Democracy

The White House Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives was launched in the hope that “spiritual approaches can succeed where secular...

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First Installment of National Strategy for Suicide Prevention Unveiled: Goals and Objectives for Public, Private Sectors

United States Surgeon General Surgeon General David Satcher, flanked by leaders of the public and private suicide prevention community, unveiled his report...

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Legacy First Look Report 6: Youth Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke

This report, from the tobacco education foundation created by the national Master Settlement Agreement with the major tobacco companies, says more than...

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Critical Choices: Making Drug Policy at the State Level Drug Strategies

This report outlines the needs and roles that state governments must play in reducing the demand for drugs through treatment and prevention...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Kids Grade Adults

Call it divine retribution for kids, or at least 1,028 of them. Chicago’s Uhlich Children’s Home got 12- to 19-year-olds together to...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Websites That Invade Youth Privacy Take Hits

On the same day the Federal Trade Commission settled its first case under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, the Center for...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Briefly …

New Jersey Town Loses Tolerance – After 50 suspensions and police files created in six weeks for children – mostly between kindergarten...

Anti-Drug Programs that Work?

Project Northland Developed by University of Minnesota, this program targets sixth- through eighth-graders and seeks to delay the age at which teens...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier