Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) This policy brief by former P/PV President Gary Walker asks, “Is mentoring now a durable part of American social...
The National Human Services Assembly Despite the fact that parents are one of the most important factors in positive child and youth...
The Urban Institute With federal immigration raids on the rise, this report examines what happens to the children of adults who are...
Child Trends Although the teen birth rate reached a record low in 2004, nearly 20 percent of teen births that year were...
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation The provision of culturally competent substance abuse and mental health services calls for behavioral health providers...
Girl Scout Research Institute GSRI’s review analyzes literature from the youth development and youth leadership fields and examines lingering contrasts between youth...
One grant proposal was to improve evaluations of state juvenile justice programs. The two Justice Department reviewers loved it, each giving it...
Nonprofits DC Action for Children, a 16-year-old advocacy organization and an affiliate of Voices for America’s Children, has hired Kate Sylvester as...
As the Nobel Peace Prize in Al Gore’s trophy case will attest, being green is officially hip again. But environmental friendliness was...
Older youths who participate in after-school programs significantly improve their chances for success, but serving them effectively is one of the greatest...
In this policy brief featured in a recent issue of the journal The Future of Children, Brookings senior fellow Ron Haskins examines...
This is the 14th report in the Casey Foundation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) Pathways series on juvenile detention reform. It documents...
Residential treatment programs operating as wilderness therapy programs, boot camps and academies cite positive outcomes, but there have been numerous allegations regarding...
A clinical trial of 439 adolescents (ages 12 to 17) with major depression has found that a combination of medication and psychotherapy...
Policymakers interested in promoting healthy adult marriages need to understand how adolescent romantic relationships – particularly those of low-income youth – function,...
Montana says its 2007 YRBS shows a 45 percent drop in reported methametaphine use among high schoolers from 2005 to 2007, from...
Depression negatively affects U.S. industries through lost productivity, employee absenteeism and low morale. Each year, companies lose an estimated $30 billion to...
States must raise the rates by which they reimburse foster parents by an average of 36 percent to cover the actual costs...
The foster care financing system’s allocation of federal funds shortchanges children in need of loving, permanent families, according to this new report...
"Good help is so hard to find these days."– Jafar, in "The Return of Jafar" Let’s admit right off the bat that...