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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...

Teen Births Hit a New Low

The national teen birth rate hit a record low in 1999, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....

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...

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...

Feds Name Model Anti-Drug Programs

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) more than doubled its list of model substance abuse prevention programs last month...

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

News Distorts Youth, Reports Say

Newspapers and radio and television stations vastly over-report crimes committed by people under 21, distorting the public’s image of youth and helping...

Big Vans: Watch Out for Rollovers

Organizations that jam kids into 15-passenger vans (often called “church vans”) to get them to and from activities had better take it...

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Foundation Giving Is Bullish – The New York-based Foundation Center’s annual report revealed that giving from the nation’s 50,000 grant-making foundations increased...

Supreme Court Hears ‘Good News’

A U.S. Supreme Court verdict is being awaited following the recent oral argument over a case involving a faith-based youth program that...

Sports Score Big in ERs

Sports-related injuries account for some 25 percent of emergency room visits for young people ages five to 24, according to a report...

Advocates Push Education for Homeless Youth

A coalition of nine homeless and child advocacy organizations is pushing a bill to expand the education of homeless children and youth. They’re...

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Accidental Jail Sentence – After it was revealed that a 13-year-old Atlanta boy spent 43 days in Fulton County jail for shoplifting...

Does Welfare Reform Hurt Teens?

While researchers unveiled more evidence last month that welfare reform helps poor parents and children in many ways, a dark cloud stands...

STDs Discriminate

New findings dramatically demonstrate how the spread of sexually transmitted diseases differs by age, gender, race and geography. The U.S. Centers for...

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Record-Setting Child Support – Before leaving town in January, outgoing U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala announced that...

Juvenile Crime Law Gutted

A California appeals court took the heart out of the Proposition 21 laws passed less than a year ago, striking down the...

Sex Charges Prompt Youth Group Changes

An Orthodox Judaism panel investigating teenage sex abuse allegations against a 50-year-old New Jersey rabbi and veteran youth worker blamed “profound errors...