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I Got the Respect I Needed

Age 17L.A. Youth, Los Angeles I got taken away from my mother when I was 3 because she used drugs and physically...

Awards for February 2008

Excellence in Leadership Award For: Leadership excellence by one young person and one youth-led organization each year. By: New Light Leadership...

Does the ‘Gold Standard’ Abuse Kids?

Program evaluations that use randomly assigned control groups are touted as the gold standard, but a major drawback is that those in...

2008 Directory of State Children’s Cabinets and Councils

Elizabeth Gaines, Nalini Ravindranath, June FolliardThe Forum for Youth Investment32 pages.Free at www.forumfyi.org/Files/CC_Directory.PDF. The movement to create cross-agency bodies to coordinate state...

Process Evaluations: A Guide for Out-of-School Time PractitionersOutcome Evaluations: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Practitioners

Child Trends8 and 12 pages, respectively. Free. The first of these two briefs explains process evaluations and clearly outlines methods for conducting...

Hot Issues, Cool Choices: Facing Bullies, Peer Pressure, Popularity, and Put-Downs

Sandra McLeod HumphreyPrometheus Books133 pages. $13.95. In fictional Emerson Elementary School, 26 students (mostly fifth-graders) confess how it feels to be victims...

Teen Success! Ideas to Move Your Mind, 2nd edition

Beatrice J. ElyéGreat Potential Press225 pages. $16.95. In contrast to Peterson’s Essential Guide for group facilitators (elsewhere on this page), this book...

The Essential Guide to Talking with Gifted Teens

Jean Sunde PetersonFree Spirit Publishing282 pages. $39.95. This outstanding handbook offers everything a facilitator needs to conduct discussion groups with gifted teens...

The Thought That Counts: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager’s Experience with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Jared Douglas Kant, Martin Franklin, Linda Wasmer AndrewsOxford University Press, with the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands and the Annenberg Public Policy...

Chasing the High: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager’s Experience with Substance Abuse

Kyle Keegan, Howard Moss, Beryl Lieff BenderlyOxford University Press, with the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands and the Annenberg Public Policy Center...

The Center for After-School Excellence

www.afterschoolexcellence.org Launched last fall by The After School Corporation (TASC), the site provides up-to-date information on New York-based certificate programs, continuing education...

Social Programs That Work

www.evidencebasedprograms.org Here the scientists who make up the nonprofit Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy summarize the findings of well-designed randomized control trials that...

Kick Butts Day 2008

www.kickbuttsday.org The next Kick Butts Day (KBD) – a national day of anti-tobacco activism – will be April 2. This site helps...

NIDA Networking Project

http://nnp.drugabuse.gov The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) launched this site to facilitate information- sharing and collaboration among substance abuse researchers, practitioners...

Bullying Canada

www.bullyingcanada.ca Created by Canadian high school students, this anti-bullying site offers tips and advice for bystanders, victims and perpetrators. It provides...

Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity

www.spotlightonpoverty.org This foundation-sponsored initiative seeks to focus public attention on poverty issues during the presidential campaign and to “encourage candidates to discuss...

I Keep My Bling in the Bank

Represent, New York When I got my first paycheck from my summer job, my supervisor asked me if I had a savings...

A Designer Addiction

New Youth Connections, New York My name is Dee and I’m a recovering junkie. I was hooked on the strong stuff. Ralph...

Highfields Family Group Decision-Making

Lansing, Mich.(517) 887-2762www.highfields.org Objective: Develop a plan to protect children who are referred to the child welfare system by strengthening their families....