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Supreme Court Judge to Lead Michigan Child Welfare Reform
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) today named Michigan Supreme Court Justice Maura Corrigan to lead his embattled Department of Human Services. Corrigan...
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Researchers Find ‘Discrepancies’ in Youths’ Self-reported Sexual Behavior
Association between Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Young Adults’ Self-reported Abstinence Pediatrics Self-reported sexual behavior – the lodestar of much research on teens’...
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Hidden In Plain Sight
It’s flu season, and cases of asthma, diabetes and whooping cough are on the rise. At some point this winter, most children...
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Kitchen Centralizes Meals and Snacks
The children don’t show up until after 2 p.m. but Lance Smith, after-school coordinator for residents at the Hubbard Place Apartments in...
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Opportunities Just Beyond His Grasp
The case of Erwin Celes, a 19-year old Hawaiian youth who committed suicide six months after aging out of foster care, where...
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3…8… 11 MillionEveryone seems to agree there are too many dropouts in the United States. But when it comes to counting them, the estimates...
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California Parents Pull ‘Trigger’ for School Takeover
Parents in Compton, Calif., south of Los Angeles, have organized the first challenge to one of the state’s poorly performing public schools,...
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Do Institutions Respond Asymmetrically to Changes in State Need- and Merit-Based Aid?
A study presented at November’s conference in Indianapolis raised some eyebrows over this finding: When states increase need-based financial aid to public...
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Roberts Rules
Juvenile justice advocates and service providers had lofty expectations for the Obama administration and the 111th Congress. But the U.S. Supreme Court...
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The Social and Educational Factors Contributing to the Outcomes of Black Males in Urban Schools
The Council of the Great City Schools The council, for the first time, tried to measure exactly the extent of challenges facing...
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Newsmakers for January 2011
Nonprofits Gary Yates announced last month that he would retire next December as CEO of The California Wellness Foundation (TCWF), based in...
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Task Force on LGBT Youth Suicide Prevention Announced
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth are the target of a new task force of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention,...
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Substance Use and Delinquent Behavior Among Serious Adolescent Offenders
Data from the Justice Department’s long-term Pathways to Desistance study do not establish a causal link between serious juvenile offending and substance...
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Criminal-Justice and School Sanctions Against Nonheterosexual Youth: A National Longitudinal Study
Pediatrics A study based on The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health found that homosexual adolescents were at higher risk of getting...
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How to Improve Mental Health Care for LGBT Youth: Recommendations for the Department of Health and Human Services
Center for American Progress This paper shows that despite the recently highly publicized suicides of gay teens, their deaths do not mark...
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HHS Hands Out Bonuses for States That Stepped Up Medicaid, SCHIP Enrollment for Kids
More states were able to secure federal bonus awards this year for their efforts to encourage and increase enrollment of uninsured children...
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States Starting to Move on Federal Guardianship, Foster Care-to-21 Programs
More than a year after passage of a law intended to give more support to youths aging out of foster care, the...
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Teen Birthrate Drops to Lowest on Record
Births to teenagers in 2009 dropped 6 percent, reversing two years of increases that interrupted years of decline, according to preliminary data...
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Child Abuse and Neglect Cases Decline, Deaths Rise
The number of child abuse and neglect cases dropped slightly last year, for the third year in a row, but the number...
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Criminal-Justice and School Sanctions Against Nonheterosexual Youth: A National Longitudinal Study
Pediatrics A study based on The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health found that homosexual adolescents were at higher risk of getting...
