Child Trends The common perception that today’s youth are suffering due to unbearably busy schedules is a myth, this brief reports. The...
Rand Corporation The most beneficial after-school programs cost the most, writes Rand education researcher Megan Beckett. While most of the past evaluations...
National Association of Counties (NACo) While many local governments are putting more resources toward addressing the issue of youth aging out of...
White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives In lieu of an actual evaluation, this self-analysis paints a portrait – complete with...
Carnegie UK Trust From 1997 to 2007, the Trust’s Carnegie Young People Initiative in London researched and worked to combat “a world...
University of New Hampshire The media-created perception that sex offenders use trickery and physical force to molest children they meet online is...
Child Trends For youth, having fewer sexual relationships correlates with more frequent use of contraception, find researchers who surveyed 4,556 unmarried, sexually...
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine More 8- to 17-year-olds die in automobile accidents than from any other cause, and more die...
If you provide mentoring, substance abuse counseling or other services to help incarcerated juveniles re-enter society, you might soon be eligible for...
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network Click to see a larger chart. There are more than 7 million lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender...
By Erika Fitzpatrick As expected, President Bush signed into law the Second Chance Act, which authorizes $360 million over the next several...
Nonprofit organizations are facing an “unprecedented” crisis in leadership, according to a national report released jointly by CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, The Annie...
Rough start in Baltimore for Douglas Miller: “The neighbors and clients all thought I was a police officer, yet the police would...
San Jose, Calif.—On a dreary evening in January, a man walked into the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department to lodge a complaint....
Jack Kresnak Nonprofits For 34 years, Jack Kresnak used journalistic objectivity to put a public face on the complexities of city...
Just weeks after Congress enacted a fiscal 2008 appropriations law that some youth advocates viewed as short-changing many kids’ programs, they were...
First, the youth boxing club was in the Barragan family’s backyard. Next, it was in a two-car garage. And finally, and somewhat...
Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) Several publications spun off from P/PV’s recent evaluation of Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) – an eight-year,...
National Foster Parent Association (NFPA) According to the NFPA, “neither the Internal Revenue Service nor commercial tax manuals offer information on unique...
Center for American Progress This report, produced to shore up support for service programs, says they are effectively addressing a new array...