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Careful with Credit

Sunburst Visual Media 30 minutes. $39.95. A guide for young people on how to establish good credit. Scenarios in which teens use...

Financial Success for Young Adults and Recent Graduates: Managing Money, Credit, and Your Future

Janet C. Arrowood Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 322 pages. $22.95. A financial planning and management guide focused on the unique interests...

Healing Parents: Helping Wounded Children Learn to Trust and Love

Michael Orlans and Terry M. Levy CWLA Press 304 pages. $34.95. A guide for parents and residential caregivers who are trying to...

Opening Our Arms: Helping Troubled Kids Do Well

Kathy Regan Bull Publishing 344 pages. $16.95. A personal narrative of the author’s experience as the nurse manager of a locked child...

Urban Girls Revisited: Building Strengths

Bonnie J. Ross Leadbeater and Niobe Way NYU Press 368 pages. $24. As the second volume in the Urban Girls series, this...

New Directions for Youth Development: Rethinking Programs for Youth in the Middle School Years

Edited by Dale A. Blyth and Joyce A. Walker Wiley Periodicals 123 pages. $29. The winter issue of this journal examines the...

Afterschool Training Tookit

http://www.sedl.org/afterschool/toolkits From math to art, this online toolkit helps after-school programs create high-quality and fun enrichment activities with academic content. Each of...

Resource Generation

http://www.resourcegeneration.org/home.html Resource Generation supports and challenges wealthy young people (ages 15-35) who are interested in contributing to “progressive social change.” Through the...

Teen Consumer Scrapbook

http://www.atg.wa.gov/teenconsumer Compiled by high schoolers in Washington state and sponsored by the state attorney general, this website empowers youth to be effective...

Teen Driving Info

http://www.teendrivinginfo.com For use by researchers, educators, policy advocates, parents and teens, this site offers links to books and resources about teen driving,...

Youth on Board

http://www.youthonboard.org Youth on Board is a consulting and coaching firm that helps strengthen relationships between young people and adults working to meet...

The National Mentoring Center

http://www.nwrel.org/mentoring The center recently launched a redesigned website that improves access to its services and information and adds content focused on improving...

Schools Endeavor to Fight Against Bullying

Newsday Despite at least five years of efforts by schools across the nation to educate youths about the negative consequences of bullying,...

Program Brings Parents Together

Albuquerque Journal New Mexico’s innovative Ice Breakers program is bringing together mothers who have lost custody of their children and the foster...

States Pull Out Stops to Curb Truancy

Stateline School attendance data have long been linked to school funding – with better attendance equating to more money from the state....

L.A. Names “Worst Gangs,” Vows to Prosecute Them

L.A. Names “Worst Gangs,” Vows to Prosecute Them, The Los Angeles Times Latino Gang Study Finds Few Links to Overseas Groups,The Washington...

Hub Teens Sweat Bullets as 1 Dies a Month

The Boston Herald Since 2004, teens in the Hub neighborhood of Boston have been murdered at the rate of 18 a year...

When Domestic Violence Starts Young

The Chicago Tribune An increased awareness of violence among dating teens has launched a spate of initiatives and interventions similar to those...

Oasis Center

Oasis CenterNashville, Tenn. (615) 327-4455http://www.oasiscenter.org Objective: To help disadvantaged youth in the Nashville community move past their problems and develop leadership skills....