Sperling: “The University of Michigan is saying this! I’m not crazy!” Photo: Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit While the growing demand to...
Children and Family Research Center/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Available at http://cfrcwww.social.uiuc.edu/pubs/Pdf.files/CAN_AFCARS_BE_RESCUED_final.pdf. The way states submit data to the federal Adoption and...
A new federal regulation should make it easier to get more money for families trying to secure Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for...
Urban InstituteAvailable at http://www.urban.org/publications/1001174.html. Studies of former foster youth who age out care find that they generally experience high unemployment, unstable employment...
Granger: “Front-line workers want to do the right thing . . . They need some help and support to do that.” In...
University of Washington, Seattle Available at http://www.planetwire.org/files.fcgi/7689_Ab_Only_Ed_Kohler_.pdf Yet another study has confirmed that abstinence-only programs have a minimal effect on risky sexual...
Low-income juvenile offenders always need good legal representation but often have trouble getting it. That might soon change in at least four...
University of Washington, Seattle/University of Illinois, Chicago Available at http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/121/2/e246 Despite this study’s title, its researchers make a clear distinction between adult...
March Madness: Youths have a ball at the B2B tournament. If you try to call the nation’s official midnight basketball association, you...
Harvard Family Research Project Research tells us that participation in after-school programs improves academics, school attendance rates, punctuality, grades and scores on...
Carnegie UK Trust From 1997 to 2007, the Trust’s Carnegie Young People Initiative in London researched and worked to combat “a world...
Wolner: “We’ve had some pretty powerful people that have gotten behind it.” Photo: Barron County Restorative Justice Program Location, location, location. Is...
California Research BureauAvailable at http://www.library.ca.gov/crb/08/08-004.pdf Although estimates vary widely, the most recent data provided to Congress suggest that, at any given time,...
Association for Child and Youth Care Practice (ACYCP) Forthcoming in the Journal of Child and Youth Care Work In February, the ACYCP...
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/afterschool A project of the Child Care Bureau in the U.S. Administration on Children and Families, this site promotes high-quality after-school programming....
http://www.safetynetforyouth.org To help foster collaboration among professionals working with runaway and homeless youth, National Safe Place – a youth outreach program that...
New York City’s foster youth and those who have aged out of care now have a home of their own on the...
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network Click to see a larger chart. There are more than 7 million lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender...
Nonprofit organizations are facing an “unprecedented” crisis in leadership, according to a national report released jointly by CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, The Annie...
Wisconsin State Journal As part of a series examining Wisconsin’s child protection system, the State Journal profiles social worker Lisa Hankes, who,...