Youth Today
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Did ex-cons run a gang from their youth program?
False advertising? One of COIL’s buildings holds itself out as the headquarters of Operation Safe Streets, but the project went away nearly...
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Do youth groups need volunteer blacklists?
If someone gets kicked out of a youth program for inappropriate behavior with the kids – giving them cigarettes, showing up...
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Q&A: Stopping Life without Parole
Johnson: “In the beginning, I considered all of those who disagreed with me … as the enemy.” With the U.S. Supreme...
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College Diplomas, Income Elude Foster Care Alumni
A new report of a long-term study of youth who have aged out of foster care in three Midwestern states paints...
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An Educated Guess
Bethesda, Md.—Eighteen-year-old Eduardo Sartor arrived at the office of Collegiate Directions Inc. late last month with his parents, a stack of...
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Newsmakers for May 2010
Vicki Wagner Nonprofits The executive director of the National Network for Youth, which advocates increased resources to aid homeless and runaway...
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Jury Hits Scouts with $18.5 M for Abuse
Depending on how you look at it, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) was punished last month for trying to keep...
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U.K.’s New List of Approved and Banned Youth Workers
The United Kingdom is instituting a system to register virtually all of the its youth workers in one place and to...
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Enhancing Quality in Afterschool Programs: Fifth-Year Report on a Process Evaluation of Prime Time Palm Beach County, Inc.
This is the fifth-year report of an evaluation of Prime Time Palm Beach County, an intermediary whose role is to improve...
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Federal Expenditures on Elementary-Age Children in 2008
This report is one in a series that addresses federal spending on children, broken down into three age groups: infants and...
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The Impact of Immigration Enforcement on Child Welfare
This report frames the immigration policy debate as a child welfare issue, outlining various ways children and their families are affected...
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Survey of Entering Student Engagement, Benchmarking & Benchmarks: Effective Practice with Entering Students
This report supports “benchmarking” as a way for community colleges to measure how well they are making sure the students who...
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Fostering Effective Grassroots Partnerships: Lessons from Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
This brief outlines key themes and guidelines based on several Mathematica studies of faith-based and community organizations and initiatives, which have...
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Millennial Donors: A Study of Millennial Giving and Engagement Habits
Millennials, or Generation Y, represent a growing population of donors in the nonprofit field. This report examines the giving, volunteering and...
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Foundation Growths and Giving Estimates
The 2009 decline in giving by foundations was the largest on record, with the more than 75,000 grant-making U.S. foundations reducing...
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The Return of the Multi-Generational Family Household
This Pew Research Center report summarizes changes in family living situations over time, noting the rise in multi-generational households and discussing...
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Shaping a Healthier Generation: Healthy Kids, Healthy America State Profiles of Progress
This report on the National Governors Association’s Healthy Kids, Healthy America grant program profiles progress made by states on children’s obesity...
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Soda Taxes, Soft Drink Consumption, and Children’s Body Mass Index
Small taxes on sugar-laden soft drinks have little impact on consumption or childhood obesity, although there may be more visible effects...
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The Rug Rat Race
For much of the 20th century, there had been a steep decline in the amount of time parents in the United...
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Unintended Pregnancy Among U.S. Adolescents: Accounting for Sexual Activity
Lawrence B. Finer of the Guttmacher Institute stresses the need for teen pregnancy prevention programs, based on his finding that sexually...
