Foster care group homes in California are about to get a 30 percent increase in reimbursements from the state, thanks in part...
Baltimore—When Ernest Dorsey spoke last month to 20 youths during their orientation at the Westside Youth Opportunity Community Center in a forlorn...
Ronald Angel, Ark. Leo Arnone, Conn. In 2007, eleven states hired new leaders to oversee their juvenile justice systems. That’s nothing...
A threat by California to do an end-run around federal regulations that restricted funding for guardianship programs – even though the...
Few groups of people are more difficult to count than abused kids, given that both the perpetrators and the victims try to...
A proposed appropriation of $210 million for Promise Grants – the Obama administration’s program to replicate the successful Harlem Children’s Zone approach...
Bill Treanor Sara Fritz Prize-winning investigative journalist Sara Fritz will become publisher of Youth Today in April, succeeding co-founder and Publisher...
Nonprofits Last year around this time, two drug abuse prevention groups were heralding their looming merger as a perfect union. The National...
Urban Institute & Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) This series of articles reflect the effects and aftermath of...
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago This study looked at family structure and household composition of families providing kinship care,...
Child Trends This Child Trends report, based on recently released data from a national survey, addresses whether teen mothers go on...
Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) The Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS) program, established in 1999 by the Bill & Melinda Gates...
Education Sector This report focuses on a new way of determining which high schools are turning out the students best prepared...
University of New Hampshire, Sage Publications While juveniles involved in prostitution were previously viewed as adolescent runaways and “street youth” engaging...
Vera Institute of Justice Youth in the juvenile justice system with limited-English-proficient (LEP) parents have a higher chance of being prosecuted and...
Urban Institute While millions of illegal immigrants continue to be a focus of attention and debate in the United States, the...
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine This new federally funded study released last month provides the first clear evidence that abstinence-only...
National Council of La Raza & Center for Community Capital at the University of North Carolina (UNC) This report examines the...
Annie E. Casey Foundation This state-by-state database tracking the health and well-being of U.S. children and their families has been updated...
Not long after Phoenix Youth and Family Services in the Arkansas Delta started providing services to young people under the Youth...