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Case of Lemonade Leaves Sour Taste

On Saturday, April 12, Christopher Ratte did his part to fulfill the Rockwellian father/son ritual by taking his 7-year-old, Leo, to watch...

Staff Education Grows, but What’s the Payoff?

Cambridge, Mass. – Do youth workers need academic credentials? That and other big questions were raised at the first Northeast Regional Higher...

Newsmakers for June 2008

Foundations Jeff Raikes The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the nation’s largest grant maker (assets: $37.3 billion), has named Jeff Raikes as...

Putting It All Together: Guiding Principles for Quality After-School Programs Serving Preteens

Public/Private Ventures Many preteens have limited access to high-quality after-school programs. This study, funded by the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health,...

Children’s Budget 2008

First Focus Since 2003, only one penny of every new non-defense dollar spent by the federal government went to programs for youth,...

A Good Start: Two-Year Effects of a Freshmen Learning Community Program at Kingsborough Community College

MDRC/Network on Transitions to Adulthood While freshmen in college benefit from extra counseling, financial aid and tutoring, the benefits last only slightly...

Low Grades, Bad Behavior? Siblings May Be to Blame

Florida State University Living with half or stepsiblings can result in more school-related behavioral problems for youth, according to sociology professor Kathryn...

State Secrecy and Child Deaths in the U.S.

Children’s Advocacy Institute/First Star Only two states, Nevada and New Hampshire, received a grade of A in this report rating the child...

State Policies Affecting the Assurance of Confidential Care for Adolescents

Incenter Strategies Minor youth often feel the need to know that the information they share with healthcare providers is confidential, even in...

Constraints on Minority Swimming Participation

USA Swimming Foundation Nearly 60 percent of African-American and Hispanic youth ages 6 to 16 are unable to swim – nearly twice...

Lesbian and Gay Youths’ Aspirations for Marriage and Raising Children

Rockway Institute In what is believed to be the first study of its kind, researchers have found that many lesbian and gay...

A Forty-Year Update of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders: Preliminary Findings

The Eisenhower Foundation From 1968 to 2006, the child poverty rate rose from 15 percent to 17 percent, four times the rate...

The Impact of the Mortgage Crisis on Children

First Focus Two million children’s families will lose their homes to foreclosures in 2008 and 2009, estimates First Focus – an event...

Residential Facilities: Improved Data and Enhanced Oversight Would Help Safeguard the Well-Being of Youth with Behavioral and Emotional Challenges

The number of state-reported fatalities of youth in residential facilities, by agency and facility type. U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Federal investigations...

Former Justice Official Says Juvenile Chief Misled Her

A former assistant attorney general says the head of the nation’s juvenile justice agency misled her into approving millions of dollars in...

SCHIP Limits: Who Holds the Cards?

Senate Democrats last month tried new legislation and nasty words (“fatwah”) to stop the White House from limiting enrollment in the federal...

Child Welfare’s Historic Headache

Historic Removal: FLDS women and children board a school bus to go from the YFZ Ranch to a child protective services processing...

Volunteer Screens Full of Holes

As an industry that relies significantly on volunteers to carry out its work, the youth field knows that a lot of agencies...

YouthBuild’s Shaky Foundation

Tanarae Greenman watched YouthBuild quickly grow into one of her most popular and effective programs at the Community Services Consortium in Lebanon,...