Twelve percent – or about one in eight – of youths held in large juvenile facilities in the United States report...
Click Image for PDF of Chart The fiscal 2010 omnibus spending bill provides $100 million for competitive grants in a key mentoring...
Click Image for PDF of Chart A new $110 million appropriation for teen pregnancy prevention in the 2010 federal budget, along with...
Click Image for PDF of Chart The fiscal 2010 budget contains several noteworthy items for juvenile justice: Second Chance Act: The act,...
At his side: Joseph Radelet with Aaron Robinson around the time of Robinson’s high school graduation in 2009. Radelet has served...
If perception is reality, then Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA) is everything from an outsider in the black community...
Nonprofits After a long national search, the Oakland, Calif.-based National Council on Crime and Delinquency has chosen from within its ranks...
The International Association for National Youth Service (IANYS) This is a report on the 8th Global Conference of the International Association...
Public Agenda (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) Only 20 percent of students at two-year colleges graduate within three years and only...
Pew Charitable Trusts The rate of unemployment for college graduates ages 20-24 in 2008 was 7.6 percent; it rose to a...
Urban Institute Federal expenditures on children dropped from approximately 20 percent of domestic spending in 1960 to 15 percent in 2008....
California Endowment The California Endowment has compiled information about obesity prevention programs that work and found that the successful initiatives included after-school...
Kaiser Family Foundation The average child’s overall media consumption increased by one hour and 17 minutes every day between 2004 and...
Pew Charitable Trusts A 2009 telephone survey of 800 teens between the ages of 12 and 17, as well as a series...
Public/Private Ventures Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) draws six recommendations from its seven years of working with the Nurse-Family Partnership program in Pennsylvania....
Pew Hispanic Center Latino youth are more likely than other American youth to drop out of school, become teenage parents, and...
American Youth Policy Forum & Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention This report on Tribal Youth Programs (TYPs), which help...
Girl Scout Research Institute (GRSI) and Harris Interactive Youth today are far more committed to being responsible, valuing diversity, being accepting...
Brookings Institution and First FocusU.S. Census Bureau Two new research reports provide evidence of the impact of the recession on child...
Click image for a four-page earmark spread or click here for a searchable Excel spreadsheet The number of youth earmarks continues its...