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Congress Probes Justice Grants
A congressional committee last month launched an investigation into whether the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) violated its...
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No Vouching for After-School Vouchers
It was billed as a congressional hearing about vouchers for after-school programs, but it was more akin to a grand jury proceeding,...
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Child Welfare’s Race Conversation
Bobo: Staff decisions are affected by “attitudes and biases that may be shaped by our class experiences.” Washington—Weeks before Barack Obama was...
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Newsmakers for April 2008
To announce changes at your agency, contact jkelly@youthtoday.org. Nonprofits Mike Caslin is leaving his post as executive vice president of the New...
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After School Programs in the 21st Century: Their Potential and What It Takes to Achieve It
Harvard Family Research Project Research tells us that participation in after-school programs improves academics, school attendance rates, punctuality, grades and scores on...
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The Over-Scheduling Myth
Child Trends The common perception that today’s youth are suffering due to unbearably busy schedules is a myth, this brief reports. The...
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Current-Generation Youth Programs: What Works, What Doesn’t and at What Cost?
Rand Corporation The most beneficial after-school programs cost the most, writes Rand education researcher Megan Beckett. While most of the past evaluations...
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Youth Aging Out of Foster Care: Identifying Strategies and Best Practices
National Association of Counties (NACo) While many local governments are putting more resources toward addressing the issue of youth aging out of...
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The President’s Faith-Based and Community Initiative: A Seven-Year Progress Report
White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives In lieu of an actual evaluation, this self-analysis paints a portrait – complete with...
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Empowering Young People
Carnegie UK Trust From 1997 to 2007, the Trust’s Carnegie Young People Initiative in London researched and worked to combat “a world...
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Online “Predators” and Their Victims: Myths, Realities, and Implications for Prevention and Treatment
University of New Hampshire The media-created perception that sex offenders use trickery and physical force to molest children they meet online is...
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The Quality of Teen Relationships Influences Decisions about Contraception
Child Trends For youth, having fewer sexual relationships correlates with more frequent use of contraception, find researchers who surveyed 4,556 unmarried, sexually...
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Risk Factors for Death Among Older Child and Teenaged Motor Vehicle Passengers
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine More 8- to 17-year-olds die in automobile accidents than from any other cause, and more die...
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New Funds to Help Offenders Start Over
If you provide mentoring, substance abuse counseling or other services to help incarcerated juveniles re-enter society, you might soon be eligible for...
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Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Parents and Their Children in Our Nation’s K-12 Schools
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network Click to see a larger chart. There are more than 7 million lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender...
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Second Chance Law: Now, It’s About the Funding
By Erika Fitzpatrick As expected, President Bush signed into law the Second Chance Act, which authorizes $360 million over the next several...
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Nonprofit Leadership Crunch
Nonprofit organizations are facing an “unprecedented” crisis in leadership, according to a national report released jointly by CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, The Annie...
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Rookie Burnout
Rough start in Baltimore for Douglas Miller: “The neighbors and clients all thought I was a police officer, yet the police would...
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Cops Call for Backup – From Social Workers
San Jose, Calif.—On a dreary evening in January, a man walked into the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department to lodge a complaint....
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Newsmakers for March 2008
Jack Kresnak Nonprofits For 34 years, Jack Kresnak used journalistic objectivity to put a public face on the complexities of city...
