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Left on Doorstep, Teen Programs get Adopted

Click on chart to open PDF version. Before the hammer fell last year, a federal demonstration project to guide disadvantaged youth...

Mighty Missouri Model Honored by Harvard; Now What?

There is no shortage of testimonials from the juvenile justice field when it comes to the confinement strategies used by the...

Newsmakers for October 2008

Byron Garrett Nonprofits National PTA, the Chicago-based organization that uses its 54 state congresses as the liaisons between it and 26,000...

Correction

A story in our September issue, “A Push for Investments Instead of Grants,” incorrectly identified Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas as a...

McCain, Obama and Kids

Click on chart to open PDF version. Where do John McCain and Barack Obama stand on issues that affect youth? Advocacy groups...

Groups Strive to Make Youth Issues Debatable

Stepping up: Youths and youth advocates rallied at a playground in Portland to raise awareness of key issues. Photo: Children First...

Party Service

Drawing a crowd: Students at Columbia University stood outside to watch the candidates speak at the service summit. Photo: Ian Kwok/Columbia...

Coalition Pushes Community Schools Agenda

Hundreds of organizations are coming together to promote a unified national agenda for community partnerships that link schools and youth-development organizations....

National Youth Groups Unveil Agenda

The National Collaboration for Youth (NCY) last month released a legislative agenda that its members have committed themselves to pushing in...

Expanded Learning Time Gains

A new study shows that expanded learning time (ELT) programs are increasing across the country, but so far these extensions of the...

2008 Survey of Washington State Youth in Foster Care

In what is being called the most extensive single-state, direct survey of foster youth about their experiences in care, about three-quarters of...

School Enrollment in the United States: 2006

More students were in college and high school and fewer were in nursery school, kindergarten and elementary school in the United States...

Employment and Unemployment among Youth – Summer 2008

From April to July this year, the number of employed 16- to 24-year-old "youth" increased by 1.9 million, to 21 million, according...

Cases of HIV Infection and AIDS in the United States and Dependent Areas, by Race/Ethnicity, 2002-2006

More than 5,300 13- to 24-year-olds in the United States contracted HIV/AIDS in 2006, according to the CDC.

Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2007

The U.S. child poverty rate in 2007 was the highest it has been since 1998, according to the Census Bureau's most recent...

2008 International Internet Trends Study

This classification analysis of more than 3 million unique URLs worldwide by web content security vendor Optenet finds a significant increase in...

Understanding the Behavioral and Emotional Consequences of Child Abuse

Children who were abused or neglected in their early years are likely to display behavioral problems such as emotional instability, depression and...

A Developmental Perspective on College and Workplace Readiness

The researchers suggest that college and workplace readiness criteria should be expanded to include things such as healthy behaviors, avoiding risky behaviors,...

Perceived Harmfulness Predicts Non-medical Use of Prescription Drugs among College Students: Interactions with Sensation-Seeking

In this first study to describe college students' beliefs about the risks of recreational use of prescription painkillers and stimulants, researchers find...