The September issue of the NSRC's journal is devoted entirely to a series of articles that identify major flaws in abstinence-only education,...
This analysis finds that use rates for alcohol, tobacco or marijuana in the past 30 days among ninth- through 12th-grade students within...
Studies have shown that there are approximately 5.3 million incidents of interpersonal violence each year, resulting in 1,300 deaths among women. This...
This bulletin uses data from the National Household Survey of Adult Caretakers and the National Household Survey of Youth to provide information...
[Correction: Because of an editing error, a sidebar story to November’s “Tale of Two Reforms,” titled “Discontent on DMC,” referred to a...
Eisner: Looking “forward to spending time with [his] family,” as of Nov. 14. Credit: CNCS David Eisner, CEO of the Corporation for...
President Bush has signed the final two major pieces of juvenile legislation recently passed in Congress: the Protect Our Children Act, signed...
Youth in America rarely get the opportunity to ask presidential candidates questions directly, but that’s what the Presidential Youth Debate will provide....
Nearly 90 percent of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) middle and high school students were verbally harassed at school during the...
President Bush has signed the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008, one of a cluster of youth-directed bills...
This “McCain Report” widget is available at www.widgetbox.com Trying to keep up with what is being said during this election campaign...
The chance videotaping of a boot-camp foster home staffer slamming a 16-year-old to the ground and pinning him down – because the...
Almost eight decades after its founding, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation is embarking on the kind of complex, fundamental overhaul of its mission...
Click on chart to open PDF version. Before the hammer fell last year, a federal demonstration project to guide disadvantaged youth...
There is no shortage of testimonials from the juvenile justice field when it comes to the confinement strategies used by the...
Byron Garrett Nonprofits National PTA, the Chicago-based organization that uses its 54 state congresses as the liaisons between it and 26,000...
A story in our September issue, “A Push for Investments Instead of Grants,” incorrectly identified Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas as a...
Click on chart to open PDF version. Where do John McCain and Barack Obama stand on issues that affect youth? Advocacy groups...
Stepping up: Youths and youth advocates rallied at a playground in Portland to raise awareness of key issues. Photo: Children First...