Georgetown University Health Policy Institution, Center for Children and Families A federal rule issued in August to limit the expansion of state...
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, California Researchers say that high school dropouts in California are three-and-a-half times as likely as high school...
Pew Internet & American Life Project, et al Scattered throughout this comprehensive report on where the public gets its information are statistics...
National Center for Education Statistics The vast majority of the 54.8 million students enrolled in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade during the 2005-2006...
MultiState Working Families Consortium This report argues for a change in government standards to better promote a family-friendly work environment, particularly in...
UCLA AIDS Institute Newly homeless youth are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior if they stay in non-family settings –...
University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center Teaching abstinence in schools has sometimes been justified on the grounds that abstaining...
Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, The Preteen Alliance Researchers who perused literature and studies about the best methods for obtaining information...
The plan doesn’t have a catchy name, but the New York-based Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF) hopes that a new “Growth...
Government Emily DeRocco left her post at the U.S. Department of Labor in January. DeRocco was the assistant secretary in charge of...
Minneapolis—When outreach worker Amanda Danielson sets out to connect with homeless and runaway youth, she does not walk into the supply room...
San Francisco—You could look at Cora Tomalinas, a delicately aging woman strolling to the stage in a winged white dress to accept...
A critical shortfall in African-American leadership at nonprofits compelled more than 100 people to meet in October at a first-ever conclave to...
Chapin Hall Center for Children Approximately 37 percent of children in foster care are African-American, despite the fact that African-American children make...
National Women’s Law Center Female dropouts earn significantly lower wages than male dropouts, are at greater risk of unemployment and are more...
National Center for Juvenile Justice The most recent in the Juvenile Court Statistics series, this report describes delinquency cases handled between 1985...
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids – New York According to this report, nearly three-quarters of the 17,500 juveniles held in New York...
U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration This report to Congress promotes the aggressive use of research-based mental health interventions, combined...
U.S. Government Accountability Office As of August, slightly more than one-quarter of the interventions listed on SAMHSA’s Registry of Evidence-based Programs and...