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A Job Big Enough for a Nonprofit and a For-Profit
Indio, Calif.—The federally funded Youth Opportunity Center (YOC) in this desert town is run by a muscular ex-ballplayer everyone calls Rock. He’s...
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Youth Today’s Best Youth Work Fellowships
You’re ready to take your skills to “the next level.” You’re aching to explore your field in depth through higher education....
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Newsmakers for September 2009
Rachel Willis Nonprofits It’s been a summer of transition at Kids Voting USA, which provides youth with education about civic issues...
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Afterschool Workforce Development Strategies: From Recruitment to Career Pathways
Children Now After-school workforce development projects that focus their outreach efforts on specific demographics, such as high school and college students,...
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Extending Foster Care to Age 21: Benefits, Costs and Opportunities for States
Chapin Hall and National Governors Association This Web conference examines the possible impact of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing...
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Volunteering in America
Corporation for National and Community Service The number of young adults (16 to 24 years old) who volunteered in 2008 rose...
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Career and Technical Education: States Have Broad Flexibility in Implementing Perkins IV
U.S. Government Accountability Office States are doing what they can to implement performance measures under a federal accountability law for career...
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Workforce Investment Act Needs Updating, Agency Says
Jobs for the Future (JFF) There’s no shortage of ideas about how to retool the Workforce Investment Act in order to...
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Trends in Child Health 1997-2006: Assessing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Diagnoses of ADHD/ADD and of Learning Disability
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Although it makes no effort to establish possible causes, and some of its findings...
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Synthesis of 10 Case Studies: Exploring Medicaid and SCHIP Enrollment Trends and Their Links to Policy and Practice
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Simplified or joint forms, the elimination of face-to-face interviews, a centralized system for eligibility processing and...
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Rite of Passage? Why Young Adults Become Uninsured and How New Policies Can HelpThe Commonwealth Fund
More than 13 million young people ages 19 to 29 lacked health insurance coverage in 2007 because of the structure of...
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America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2009
Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics An annual federal interagency report shows a few small changes in the well-being...
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School Meal Program Participation and Its Association with Dietary Patterns and Childhood Obesity
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Eat a good breakfast. That’s the bottom line on this federal study of eating...
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A Guide to Effective Investments in Positive Youth Development: Implications of Research for Financing and Sustaining Programs and Services for Youth
The Finance Project This paper reviews some of the most recent research on what makes an effective youth development program, and seeks...
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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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New Survey Blames Recession for Decline in Volunteering
More than 70 percent of Americans say they have cut back on the hours they spend volunteering and participating in civic...
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Fathering with Multiple Partners Associated with Poor Outcomes in Early Childhood
Child Trends Children whose fathers have offspring with multiple partners experience increased behavioral problems and poorer physical health early in life,...
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Rural Children Are More Likely to Live in Cohabiting-Couple Households
Carsey Institute The poor economy may have contributed to a rise in the number of rural children living with cohabitating, unmarried...
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Fathering with Multiple Partners Associated with Poor Outcomes in Early Childhood
Child Trends Children whose fathers have offspring with multiple partners experience increased behavioral problems and poorer physical health early in life,...
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Summer Youth Employment Hits 64-year Low
Despite the $1.2 billion in stimulus money the Congress set aside for summer jobs for youth, the summer youth employment rate...
