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Newsmakers for October 2009
Doug Nelson Foundations When he walked into Annie E. Casey Foundation’s old headquarters in Greenwich, Conn., in 1990, Doug Nelson thought...
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Preventing Child Maltreatment
Princeton University/The Brookings Institution The fall 2009 entry in The Future of Children journal series explores the prevention of child maltreatment...
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Midterm Scorecard: How U.S. Senators Have Voted on Key Children and Family Issues in 2009
Vote Kids This midterm report, compiled by Vote Kids, a nonprofit organization focused on children as a political priority, focuses on...
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An Update on State Budget Cuts
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Major budget cuts occurring in at least 41 states and the District of Columbia –...
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The Timing of Termination of Parental Rights: A Balancing Act for Children’s Best Interests
Child Trends Termination of parental rights (TPR) has been an ongoing subject of discussion among judicial and child welfare professionals in...
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A Fact Sheet Reporting National, State, and City Trends in Teen Childbearing
Child Trends In 2007, the second year in a row that the U.S. teen birth date increased after a 14-year decline,...
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KIDS COUNT Indicator Brief: Reducing the Teen Birth Rate
Annie E. Casey Foundation Data collected in 2006 by the U.N. Statistics Division show teen birth rates in the United States...
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Poverty in the United States, 2008
Urban Institute Nearly 40 million Americans, including 14 million children, were living in poverty in 2008, an increase to 13.2 percent...
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Vulnerable Youth and the Transition to Adulthood
Urban Institute Eight new research briefs on youth transitions to early adulthood are available and include two unexpected findings: First, among...
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A Guide to Effective Investments in Positive Youth Development
The Finance Project This paper reviews some of the most recent research on what makes an effective youth development program and...
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Investments for Building Out-of-School-Time Systems: A Six City Study
Public/Private Ventures and The Finance Project An increase in the need for programs that occupy students during their time outside of...
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Teens and Mobile Phones over the Past Five Years
Teen Internet and American Life Project The share of American teenagers using cell phones increased from 45 percent in 2004 to...
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Individual and Social Influences on Progression to Daily Smoking During Adolescence
American Academy of Pediatrics Adolescents whose friends and parents smoke are at greater risk of progressing from merely experimenting with cigarettes...
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Ex-OJJDP administrators to gather for first time Nov. 10.
Most of the former administrators of the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) plan to gather in Washington next...
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Spending on Children Is Up, but Mandatory Programs Devour Increases
Total federal spending on children’s programs increased 10.5 percent this year over last year, but the growth is due to mandatory...
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In Information Age, College Access Still Requires That Personal Touch
Baltimore – To help America’s low-income youths navigate the often frustrating and confusing process of getting into college, youth workers and...
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Biggest AmeriCorps Program Gets Slashed
The Corporation for National and Community Service has penalized the largest AmeriCorps program in the nation, but not nearly to the...
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Success Stories Abound at Job Corps 45th Anniversary Celebration
With the U.S. Capitol as its stage, Job Corps celebrated its 45th birthday this week with Job Corps students from around...
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Report Details Waste in College Improvement Funds
A Maryland college spent nearly $80,000 in federal grant money on “numerous student trips to locations such as resorts and amusement parks,”...
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Report Makes Economic Case for Dropout Fight
The best way to stimulate the economy is to get more students to graduate from high school and go to college. That’s...
