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3 Mentoring Studies

Over the past two decades policymakers began looking at schools as a delivery model for health and human services for students and...

DVD: Culturally Competent Parenting

Culturally Competent ParentingFoster Parent College: Training for Adoptive, Kinship, and Foster ParentsNorthwest Media Inc.30 minutes. Interactive DVD plus CD-ROM with Viewer Guide,...

Paranoia & Heartbreak: Fifteen Years in a Juvenile Facility

Paranoia & Heartbreak: Fifteen Years in a Juvenile FacilityJerome GoldSeven Stories Press344 pages.. People often ask novelist and poet Jerome Gold, a...

Positive Life Changes: A Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Adolescents and Young Adults

Positive Life Changes: A Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Adolescents and Young AdultsNancy G. GuerraResearch Press3 Workbooks, approximately 100 pages/$21.95 each; 1 Leader’s Guide,...

…Help Youth Who Have Experienced Violence

When violence occurs on the street or in the home, the impact on child witnesses is often overlooked by busy police, parents...

Strong Child Nutrition Today Equals a Healthy, Productive Tomorrow

By Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba and John Cook It is simply common sense that food is a basic necessity...

After-School Jobs

www.AfterschoolPathfinder.org After-School Corp.’s Pathfinder serves as a networking tool for various audiences. Job-seekers can upload their resumes, obtain personalized learning plans, and...

Awards for September 2010

Spirit of Service Award For: Individuals representing AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, and Learn and Serve America who have performed exemplary service in...

Does Early Child Care Affect Teen Behavior?

Earlier this year, a study that seemed to say something astonishing hit the news: that the quality of formal child care that...

… Grow Self Esteem and a Sense of Belonging through Nontraditional Sports

Many programs offer at-risk youth access to normal sports and outdoor recreation activities – from soccer to hiking – but few provide...

Dating Violence

www.cdc.gov/ChooseRespect The slogan for this website, home to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s “Choose Respect” initiative, is “Respect. Get it....

Money Management

www.Moneybunny.com Developed by Money Management International, this kid-friendly website is designed to teach youth healthy spending habits. The “money bunny” is the...

Inspired 2 Impact!

www.Inspired2Impact.com On the home page of this website, users are greeted by Jourdan Urbach, a student adviser who stresses in a video...

Internet Safety

www.ProjectSafeChildhood.gov This newly relaunched site comes with the release of the National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction. This strategy was...

DVD: Wipe Out

Directed by Lionel GoddardIcarus Films/Fanlight Productions50 minutes. DVD $248. This film is the result of a deal professional snowboarder Chris Dufficy made...

Breaking the Adolescent Parent Cycle: Valuing Fatherhood and Motherhood

Jack C. WestmanUniversity Press of America505 pages. “Adolescent childbirth,” says Dr. Jack C. Westman, a veteran of 45 years of clinical practice...

A Look at College Dropout Factories

“Nationwide, low-income minority students are disproportionately steered toward colleges not where they’re most likely to succeed, but where they’re most likely to...

… Feed youths out of school

Although nearly 19 million children from low-income families eat a free or reduced-priced lunch at school during the school year, according...

ArtHaus Foundation

A sound foundation: Children learn the basics of creating exhibit-worthy art. Photo: ArtHaus Foundation Port Orange, Fla.(386) 767-0076http://www.ArtHaus.org Objective: To support...