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1.6KLegislation Would Keep Foster Kids From Having to Change Schools
The traumatic changes children in foster care face often include disrupted schooling. They may have to change schools when they first enter...
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1.5KYoung People in Recovery Need Anonymity More Than Ever, Experts Say
In a world dominated by social media, some young people and experts who work with them say anonymity gets harder and harder...
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1.7KThe Corps Network Helps Court-involved Youth Nurture New Skills
“Service is really a great strategy to re-engage court-involved youth,” said Mary Ellen Sprenkel, president and CEO of the Corps Network. “It...
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Newsmakers | May-June 2015
Dr. Rajiv Shah - Gloria Johnson-Cusack - Siobhán O’Riordan - Emily Froimson - Kathleen Annette - Paul Batcheller
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Newsmakers | March-April 2015
Darren Walker - Don Chen - Dr. Michael J. Klag - Dr. James S. Marks, MD, MPH - Maura Pally - Amit...
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Re-Examining Juvenile Incarceration – High Cost, Poor Outcomes Spark Shift to Alternatives
This issue brief from the Pew Charitable Trusts presents research which shows that shorter sentences and community-based treatments are more effective than...
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1.2K‘Transparent’ NIJ Grants Process Withholds Information from Public
NIJ, the scientific-research arm of the U.S. Justice Department, previously faced criticism that its records didn't show how it chose grant recipients,...
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Zeroing In on Place and Race: Youth Disconnection in America’s Cities
Measure of America uses new data to provide a comprehensive look at the quality of life and general welfare of the roughly...
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1.4KAward-Winning Program Highlights Effective Practices as Summer Learning Day Celebrated
Young children bound off the bus on summer mornings at Hickory Grove Elementary School in Charlotte, N.C. They’re coming to summer camp...
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2.9KReport Helps Police Protect Kids While Arresting Their Parents
Each year in the United States, several million children witness the arrest of a parent. These arrests are most likely to be...
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1.2KNSLA Chief Urges Support for Summer Learning — Especially on Friday
Here’s a stark picture of the “achievement gap”: Four out of five low-income kids are not reading proficiently at the end of...
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1.8K‘Our Kids’ — How One San Francisco Program Gets Teens Off Drugs
“We call them our kids versus our clients because they spend most of their time with us,” counselor Julia Barboza said. “At...
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1.4KBiggest Obstacles To HIV Treatment Aren’t Medical, Doctor Says
“About 50 percent of the patients we get are Latino males,” said Belzer. “Then another 35 to 40 percent are African-American [males]....
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1.7KEpidemic of HIV Among Youth Needs Structural Repair, Experts Believe
Many people who work with adolescents are concerned that a lack of education and information when they come of age sexually might...
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2.3KWhat Three People Learned About Suicide and Kids
When Cynthia Fontanella saw the numbers, she was surprised. It wasn’t that almost 66,595 kids in the United States had killed themselves...
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The Condition of Education 2015
The latest edition of the National Center for Education Statistics' annual "Condition of Education" report utilizes 42 indicators to summarize and explain...
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2.2KEx-Gang Member’s Life Does a 180 After He Joins Los Ryderz
LOS ANGELES — Riding his bike through the barren projects of Watts — the sidewalks of which are scattered with used heroin...
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1.5KYouth-led HIV & AIDS Awareness Day
In honor of National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day on April 10, three Atlanta-area organizations hosted Healthy Sex, Healthy Futures, an...
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2.5KYoung People & HIV-AIDS
ATLANTA — The number of HIV-positive cases among 13- to 24-year-olds is increasing at alarming rates, according to HIV and AIDS researchers,...
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Baltimore Young to Get Volunteer Work Making City Greener Under 50-City Plan
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said the Interior Youth Initiative will help to pass along values of “teamwork, local pride, and social responsibility to...
