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New USDA Rules Keep Candy from School Vending Machines

Beginning next year, fruits and other healthy foods will replace candy bars and cans of soda in school vending machines thanks to...

Types of Alcohol Use Experience From Childhood Through Adolescence

The Comeback States – Reducing Youth Incarceration in the United States

The Nuts and Bolts of Strategic Planning for Nonprofits

Consider strategic planning “the shelter and water” a nonprofit needs to sustain, said Ana Cortez an expert in strategic planning who helps...

Alcohol Use Common Among Kids, Study Says

Two out of five second-graders have tasted alcohol, a number that shoots up to six out of ten for 12-year-olds, according to...

Supreme Court Rules on Native American Adoption Case

Arriving quietly Wednesday between the Supreme Court’s historic rulings on gay marriage was a ruling that will have lasting and significant impacts...

Experiment increases number of low-income applicants to selective colleges

WASHINGTON–Nicole Hurd has met many stellar low-income students who believe college is not an option for them.  As director of the National...

Most U.S. Kids Don’t Get Enough Exercise, Says NIH

According to a new study conducted by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), most young people in the United States...

16 Million U.S. Children Live in Poverty, Says New Report

New data from the Annie E. Casey Foundation reveals the number of children living in poverty increased by nearly a quarter from...

VISTA’s Lasting Lessons

When asked to write a reflection on my experience as a VISTA volunteer, my response was similar to Dorothy Parker’s in the...

Agencies: Diversity Essential to Maximizing Outreach Potential

When the National Juvenile Justice Network (NJJN) held its annual meeting three or four years ago, a representative of one of its...

Two ‘Cool Girls’ Beat the Odds

“You still have all this stuff?” Erica Gibson, a 32-year-old computer application developer consultant, cannot believe that Joan Thomas — her childhood...

Consistency and Commitment Key to Successful Mentoring

As a broadcast journalist, Joan Thomas said that a large part of her profession entailed chronicling the worst aspects of humanity. Youth...

Who are the Class of 2013?

A new analysis from Child Trends looks at the high school class of 2013, painting a vivid description of the nation’s most...

California School Systems Now Accountable for Foster Care Youth Success

  California has become the first state in the nation to make school systems accountable for foster children’s educational outcomes. An addendum...

Helping Can Hurt

Four years ago, a valued long-time staff member walked into Dr. Ginny Sprang’s office and announced suddenly that she was quitting. The...

Resources for Professionals to Help Prevent Secondary Traumatic Stress

National Child Traumatic Stress Network – nctsn.org This collaborative of organizations and individuals has a workgroup on secondary traumatic stress, and several...

How to Reduce the Risk of Secondary Trauma

Avoiding or dealing with secondary traumatic stress requires action by both individual professionals and organizations as a whole: Engage in self care....

Measuring AmeriCorps

AmeriCorps volunteers leave the State and National program and the NCCC feeling more connected to their communities, more likely to vote, to...

Rural America After the Recession, Part One: A Plague of an Entirely Different Kind

Photo by Jan Banning  A lot seems to have changed over the last four years. At first, things, momentarily, appear a lot better...