MDRC/Network on Transitions to Adulthood While freshmen in college benefit from extra counseling, financial aid and tutoring, the benefits last only slightly...
Florida State University Living with half or stepsiblings can result in more school-related behavioral problems for youth, according to sociology professor Kathryn...
Children’s Advocacy Institute/First Star Only two states, Nevada and New Hampshire, received a grade of A in this report rating the child...
Incenter Strategies Minor youth often feel the need to know that the information they share with healthcare providers is confidential, even in...
USA Swimming Foundation Nearly 60 percent of African-American and Hispanic youth ages 6 to 16 are unable to swim – nearly twice...
Rockway Institute In what is believed to be the first study of its kind, researchers have found that many lesbian and gay...
The Eisenhower Foundation From 1968 to 2006, the child poverty rate rose from 15 percent to 17 percent, four times the rate...
First Focus Two million children’s families will lose their homes to foreclosures in 2008 and 2009, estimates First Focus – an event...
The number of state-reported fatalities of youth in residential facilities, by agency and facility type. U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Federal investigations...
A former assistant attorney general says the head of the nation’s juvenile justice agency misled her into approving millions of dollars in...
Senate Democrats last month tried new legislation and nasty words (“fatwah”) to stop the White House from limiting enrollment in the federal...
Historic Removal: FLDS women and children board a school bus to go from the YFZ Ranch to a child protective services processing...
As an industry that relies significantly on volunteers to carry out its work, the youth field knows that a lot of agencies...
Tanarae Greenman watched YouthBuild quickly grow into one of her most popular and effective programs at the Community Services Consortium in Lebanon,...
It’s almost an accepted fact of life that employees will use their office computers for some personal Internet surfing – checking sports...
Nonprofits Carter Savage, vice president of youth development services for the Atlanta-based Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA), has left that...
Public/Private Ventures Written halfway through a three-year evaluation of Boys & Girls Clubs, the report examines what it takes to get and...
The James Irvine Foundation and Public/Private Ventures This report on Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) – an eight-year, $58 million...
Youth Development Institute (YDI) YDI tracked 39 young people as they advanced from a earning a GED with the help of a...
Editorial Projects in Education Research Center Released by the America’s Promise Alliance to help launch its Dropout Prevention campaign, this report provides...