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Turning It Around
The alliance report heralds the progress made on the front of the system. Referrals to juvenile court are down 30 percent over...
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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 frequently youths participate in...
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Audit Slams Largest AmeriCorps Program
The nation’s largest and most expensive AmeriCorps program – the Teaching Fellows project at the City University of New York –...
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First Lady Plants Two New Feet at CNCS
First Lady Michelle Obama’s chief of staff, Jackie Norris, is being sent to the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) in...
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Evaluation of the YouthBuild Youth Offender Grants
The main findings on outcomes showed that a third of active participants at the 34 grantees got a GED while enrolled in...
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FDA Committee to Rule on Psych Meds for Youths
The Food and Drug Administration’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee will vote next week on whether to allow three psychotropic medications to be...
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Child Protection and Adult Crime: Using Investigator Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of Foster Care
Doyle compared the criminal outcomes of youth in foster care to those who were kept with their families, excluding from his sample...
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Connected by 25 Reports
Both reports cover youth aging out of the foster care system. Financing Housing Supports for Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care outlines...
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CNCS Announces New AmeriCorps Grants
The Corporation for National and Community Service’s announcement today of the winners of the 2009 grant competition brings the number of AmeriCorps...
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Obama’s Swoosh Shot
How did the vice president of the world’s largest shoe company – whose primary job was to calm the uproar over Nike’s...
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Growing a Workforce
Skills with teeth: Pam Fuller, 17, practices using a dental instrument in her dental assisting class at Central Educational Center. Photo: Jamaal...
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Newsmakers for June 2009
Laura Robinson Government The “Yes We Can” attitude at President Obama’s Justice Department must have resonated with Laurie Robinson. The Clinton-era...
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Obama Budget Offers Growth and Cuts
The warm hope that President Barack Obama would reinvigorate youth programs with new federal funding has met the cold reality of the...
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A Funding Offer Wins Praise, but Few Takers
From a policy perspective, nary anyone says a bad word about the guardianship assistance payments (GAPs) established by the Fostering Connections...
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935A Clash of Faith, Money and Politics
J. Robert Flores took over the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) in 2002 with a mission to push...
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A Plus for Teens Faces Subtraction
Watch the original Youth Today video, “Hard Times at Sunnyside High” Tucson, Ariz.—Every day after school during the past year, 17-year-old Veronica...
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Making Critical Decisions: A Practical Guide for Nonprofit Organizations
Roberta M. Snow, Paul H. PhillipsJossey-Bass/Wiley237 pages. $40 hardcover or e-book. For nonprofits facing “novel and critical situations,” two consultants borrow...
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Learning Around the Clock: Benefits of Expanded Learning Opportunities for Older Youth
American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) Programs that offer youth expanded learning opportunities are placed under a microscope in this report, which...
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How Federal Legislation Impacts Child Welfare Service Delivery
Child Welfare Information Gateway In an attempt at government transparency, this branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...
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Child Maltreatment 2007
U.S. Administration on Children, Youth and Families This analysis of approximately 3.2 million referrals made to the nation’s state child protective services...
