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Job Corps: Better Targeted Career Training and Improved Preenrollment Information Could Enhance Female Residential Student Recruitment and Retention

  U.S. Government Accountability Office Job Corps should confront the under-enrollment among females in its residential programs by offering career training that...

Building Blocks For Kids: Creating Intervention Systems That Support Young Children’s Healthy Development

  Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago This webcast, a one-hour recording of which is available online, focuses on how states...

Research-Based Recommendations to Improve Child Nutrition in Schools and Out-of-School Time Programs

  Child Trends Want children to eat a healthier diet? Make certain they know what a healthy diet is and expose them...

Health Care Reform for Children with Public Coverage: How Can Policymakers Maximize Gains and Prevent Harm?

  Urban Institute In examining how health care reform might affect the estimated 25 million children now covered under Medicaid or the...

Major Depressive Episode and Treatment among Adolescents

  U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Less than half of the estimated 2 million American youths who experienced a...

Youth Development Approach: Turning Crisis into Opportunity

  National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) HIV and STD health education programs that promote improved well-being are more...

Making Every Day Count: Boys & Girls Clubs’ Role in Promoting Positive Outcomes for Teens

  Public/Private Ventures This latest report on P/PV’s multi-year study of Boys & Girls Clubs finds that the more often youths participate...

CNCS Announces Learn and Serve America Grants

  Thirty-six Learn and Serve America grants – totaling almost $20 million and designed to engage students in service-learning projects that enhance...

Career and Technical Education: States Have Broad Flexibility in Implementing Perkins IV

Casey’s 2009 Kids Count Shows Improvement in Six of 10 Areas

  The 2009 Kids Count Data Book, the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s annual statistical analysis of children’s well-being released today, showed a...

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 Adoptions...

CNCS Gets Bigger Budget Hike – for Now

Casey’s 2009 Kids Count Shows Improvement in Six of 10 Areas

  The 2009 Kids Count Data Book, the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s annual statistical analysis of children’s well-being released today, showed a...

Volunteering in America

  Corporation for National and Community Service     The number of young adults (16 to 24 years old) who volunteered in 2008 rose...

Windfall

  If you run an effective college readiness program and were banking on crucial federal funding that failed to come through, do...

House Passes Labor, Health and Education Appropriations Bill

  The House of Representatives passed the appropriations bill for Labor, Health and Education Programs today 264-153, leaving intact the $1.069 billion ...

Did Cops Taser Foster Kids?

    The Illinois Office of State Guardian is suing Jefferson County  (Mount Vernon) and law enforcement officers there, alleging that a...

Life After Debt?

A growing number of low-income minority students who go to for-profit colleges are taking out and defaulting on private student loans, which...

Children’s Aid Society Announces New CEO

Children’s Aid Society (CAS), which provides a range of programs for 150,000 New York City youth each year, has hired Richard Buery...

Afterschool Workforce Development Strategies: From Recruitment to Career Pathways

  Children Now   After-school workforce development projects that focus their outreach efforts on specific demographics, like high school and college students,...