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OJJDP Leaders Talk Money, Politics and Advocacy

The administrators meet for the first time, minutes before the forum. Standing (left to right): Robert Sweet, Shay Bilchik and Verne Speirs;...

OJJDP @ 35: Recollections

[See related article, OJJDP Leaders Talk Money, Politics and Advocacy; watch videos from the forum at http://www.youthtodayexchange.org] John Rector1977-1979Appointed by Jimmy Carter The...

Using Information from Income Tax Forms to Target Medicaid and CHIP Outreach: Preliminary Results of the Maryland Kids First Act

State Health Access Data Assistance Center The state of Maryland has started to use adjusted gross income and various data from...

The Future of Children: Preventing Child Maltreatment

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University The investigations of the families of 1.86 million U.S. children for...

Evaluating the Long-term Impacts of AmeriCorps Service on Participants

Pardee Rand Graduate SchoolThe RAND Corp. Since the establishment of AmeriCorps in 1993, more than 500,000 people have served in its...

Community Schools Improve Graduation Rates

National Association of Secondary School Principals and the Coalition for Community Schools Community schools are effective in increasing high school graduation...

Lifelines: Linking to Federal Benefits for People Exiting Corrections

Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law has released a three-volume report emphasizing the importance...

Understanding Donors’ Motivations

The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana State University This report concludes that the motivations of donors are highly correlated to level...

Social Isolation and New Technology

Pew Internet & American Life Project Research findings in 2006 found that the number of core discussion networks had declined and...

Parents Matter: The Role of Parents in Teens’ Decisions About Sex

Child Trends A new study of the relationship between parental roles and teen decisions on sex revealed that the two are...

Assessing Bullying: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Program Practitioners

Assessing Bullying: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Program Practitioners and Assessing Peer Conflict Aggressive Behaviors: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Program Practitioners...

A Bumpy, Dangerous Path to Success

Martinez: “I wanted to cry, but I was too happy.” Kauffman Scholars might have saved Rene Martinez’s life. On a Friday...

Another Kauffman Test: For Drugs

For youths enrolled in Kauffman Scholars, the road to higher education isn’t just paved with preparation for college entrance tests. It’s also...

Does Kauffman Put Too Much Emphasis on Four-Year Schools?

College access experts increasingly lament the small percentage of low-income youths entering college who achieve the more important goal: making it out...

From Family Loss, a Success Story

Eighteen-year-old Latisha Smith decided long ago that she wanted to go to college, but wasn’t sure how she could afford it. She...

OJJDP Mentoring Funds Boosted by $20 Million

The fiscal 2010 omnibus spending bill signed by President Barack Obama on Dec. 16 adds $20 million – for a total of...

Largest Budget Ever for Community Service Agency

Congress has brought change to the Obama administration’s Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS): its largest appropriation in history. The fiscal...

Connecting the Data Dots to Better Serve Disconnected Youths

Cross-system collaboration, caring adults and meaningful data analysis will help programs for disconnected youth succeed, grow and get funded, program and policy...