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Dear Obama Claus:
Illustrations by Dean MacAdam After Barack Obama won last month’s presidential election, gatherings of youth workers and advocates took on the air...
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Strategies for Success: A Plan to Align Out-of-School Time Initiatives with High School Reform
The report recommends ways New York City after-school programs for teens can be improved, and stresses the importance of collaboration between high...
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Growing Bigger Better: Lessons from Experience Corps’ Expansion in Five Cities
Improving the literacy skills of low-income elementary students.
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Effective Practices for Engaging At-Risk Youth in Service
Population of "at-risk" youth expected to rise by 2015.
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One Dream, Two Realities: Perspectives of Parents on America’s High Schools
Only 15 percent of parents of students at low-performing schools are satisfied with their children's education, as opposed to 58 percent of...
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Three Independent Evaluations of Healthy Kids Programs Find Dramatic Gains in Well-Being of Children and Families
About 90 percent of the 60,000 children enrolled in Healthy Kids in those counties receive regular medical care in the form of...
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Charting the Way to Delinquency Prevention for Girls
Despite a rise in female juvenile arrests, violence among female youth has not increased.
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2008 “Teens and Entrepreneurship” Poll
Junior Achievement Teens are less interested in starting their own businesses than they were a year ago.
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Does Watching Sex on Television Predict Teen Pregnancy? Findings from a National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
Teens who watch a lot of sexual content on television are more likely to get pregnant or to get their partners pregnant.
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Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Initiative: Further Progress is Needed in Developing a Risk-Based Monitoring Approach to Help HHS Improve Program Oversight
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is not effectively ensuring that its grantees meet performance goals regarding the provision of...
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What Works in Programs Serving Fathers Involved in the Criminal Justice System: Lessons from Evidence-Based Evaluations
The percentage of children with a father in prison increased 58 percent between 1991 and 1999.
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Creating Postsecondary Pathways to Good Jobs for Young High School Dropouts
30 percent of all youth and 50 percent of minority youth leave public schools without diplomas.
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Sexual and Reproductive Health Behaviors among Teen and Young Adult Men: A Descriptive Portrait
Almost two-thirds of sexually experienced males ages 15 through 24 report they did not receive any reproductive health services, as opposed to...
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Condom Use and Consistency among Male Adolescents in the United States
Although seven out of 10 teen males used a condom the first time they had sex, only half used condoms consistently with...
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Household Food Security in the United States, 2007
Children in 323,000 households experienced instances of very low food security in 2007, up from 221,000 in 2006.
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The State of our Union in Crisis: Widening the Lens of Children and Families
LaMarche This keynote was given by LaMarche at Atlantic’s Annual Conference of Grantmakers for Children Youth and Families, Chicago, Ill., October 15,...
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Atlantic Philanthropies Hires New Children and Youth Director
The Atlantic Philanthropies, an international grant maker with assets of $3.3 billion, has hired Donna Lawrence to oversee its disadvantaged children and...
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Tale of Two Reforms: MacArthur’s ambitious plan spurs changes and criticism
Some of the most tangible results of Pennsylvania’s Models for Change Initiative (MFC) could fit in your briefcase. It’s just two documents....
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Tale of Two Reforms: Annie E. Casey’s JDAI aims to reduce detention. Could it spread nationwide?
The daily juvenile detention population in Santa Clara County, Calif., has fallen 53 percent since 2001. Over the same time, the daily...
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College is for Poor Kids
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