The Boys Scouts of America, hit by a 42 percent decline in membership since its peak year of 1973 and an $18.5...
Barack Obama campaigned on the promise to eliminate federal programs that don’t work, change programs that don’t quite measure up and consolidate duplicate...
The proposition can seem fair or outrageous: If the federal government, in effect, pays a college to train young people for...
Harrisburg, Pa. – A series of hearings here last month marked the first step in what promises to be an unorthodox...
Jennifer Supsky was only 16 years old when she moved to Louisville, Ky., to escape the emotional trauma caused by her...
Note: This story was corrected on June 29. See comments below article for more information. Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act monitors...
Steven Wing Foundations Deborah Leff, president of the Public Welfare Foundation since 2006, left the foundation on June 30 to become...
Civic Enterprises This report looks at the lives, needs, aspirations and concerns of Littles, the children who are mentored through Big...
Maine’s child welfare system, long hailed as one of the worst in the country, has made significant progress over the past...
Vera Institute of Justice This report explores the implementation of the Academy, a collaborative program created in New York in 2007...
Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, Georgetown Public Policy Institute Youths who go through both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems...
Annie E. Casey Foundation Poor reading skills at an early age are a warning sign of dropping out in high school,...
Californians Together Non-English speaking students who are always taught in English are likely to face long-term academic struggles, according to this...
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention This new report makes clear that not all teens are motivated to avoid pregnancy,...
Pediatrics Children raised since birth in lesbian-mother families display healthy psychological adjustment and outperform their heterosexual- and male homosexual-raised counterparts in...
U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) The national rates of tobacco sales to minors showed a slight increase...
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Nearly three-quarters of American students – 72.5 percent – have drunk alcohol by the...
The hope that greeted President Obama’s biggest youth initiative last year – replication of the Harlem Children’s Zone in communities around the...
Following rigorous evaluations of 66 home visitation programs, researchers found that less than half positively affected their communities, this fact sheet says....
A pressing question regarding the effectiveness of certain adoptive parents has increasingly found its way into courtrooms, resulting in legal proceedings and...