Every Child Matters Education Fund This new report shows that the United States lags behind many of the world's comparably wealthy democracies...
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — A poem on the wall of PA Child Care, a privately owned juvenile detention facility on the outskirts of...
It’s not easy to spend $1.2 billion quickly and well – as people who provide summer jobs for youth are about to...
Building support: The first lady’s visit gets a reaction from Stoneman. Photo: CNCS Five young men listened intently as they gathered around...
Earmark Samples(Click image to open full .pdf chart) Here is a sample of youth-related earmarks from fiscal 2009 appropriations legislation. The numbers next...
Nonprofits Former attorney general Alberto Gonzales may be having a hard time finding a job (according to The New York Times), but...
Visual appeal: Youths at the Village Academy speak in this YouTube video about how the economic crisis is hurting their families. In...
Real Stories, Real Teens Keith Hefner, with Development Without LimitsYouth CommunicationLeader’s Guide: $34.95, 286 pages.Anthology: $16.95, 188 pages.Full Program: $695, 20 anthologies,...
Click image for .pdf chart This chart outlines recently enacted fiscal 2009 spending levels for youth programs – everything from child nutrition...
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago This report explores campus-based support programs that seek to remove barriers that former foster youths...
National Center on Family Homelessness In the midst of an economic crisis that is forcing adults to deal with job layoffs and...
Academy for Educational Development The entire year of this journal's editions covering the youth media field is now available in one volume,...
Multiple international researchers Adolescents who spend time with their grandparents have better social skills and exhibit fewer behavior problems, according to this...
Girl Scout Research Institute The findings of this national study provide a nuanced view of girls' attitudes, aspirations and experiences regarding leadership....
Less than three months after he took office, and seven months after a large New York send-off, much of President Barack Obama’s...
Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) Many of America's nonprofits - including "safety-net" organizations that offer basic and social services to at-risk populations -...
The federal government’s vital statistics records show a second year of increase in the birth rate among U.S. teens from 2006 to...
Guidelines released today for spending the $1.2 billion provided by the federal stimulus bill for summer job programs spell out the jobs,...
Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor to President Obama and chair of the new White House Counsel on Women and Girls. Saying that...