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Last Chance to Fight the President
Just weeks after Congress enacted a fiscal 2008 appropriations law that some youth advocates viewed as short-changing many kids’ programs, they were...
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The Downside of Upscale
First, the youth boxing club was in the Barragan family’s backyard. Next, it was in a two-car garage. And finally, and somewhat...
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Advancing Achievement: Findings from an Independent Evaluation of a Major After-School Initiative
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,...
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Federal Tax Benefits: Foster, Adoptive Parents and Kinship Caregivers
National Foster Parent Association (NFPA) According to the NFPA, “neither the Internal Revenue Service nor commercial tax manuals offer information on unique...
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A National Service Agenda for the Next Decade
Center for American Progress This report, produced to shore up support for service programs, says they are effectively addressing a new array...
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America’s Youth at 20: School Enrollment, Training, and Employment Transitions Between Ages 19 and 20
U.S. Department of Labor Twenty-year-old females are 20 percent more likely to be enrolled in college than are their male counterparts, says...
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The Collapse of the National Teen Job Market and the Case for an Immediate Youth Jobs Creation Program
Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University Employment rates for 16- to 19-year-olds have been declining or stagnant since 1989, and the...
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Youthful Offender Project
YouthBuild USA This report on YouthBuild’s Youthful Offender Project stresses the need for re-entry programs to prevent recidivism. Part of the U.S....
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Ten Key Findings from Responsible Fatherhood Initiatives
The Urban Institute This report examines the results of five programs initiated from the 1990s through 2000 to help low-income noncustodial fathers...
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Survey Finds Most College Freshmen Satisfied with Close Parental Involvement
Cooperative Institutional Research Program/UCLA The majority of college freshmen answering this survey reported that they had experienced the “right amount” of parental...
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Ethical Approaches to Adolescent Participation in Sexual Health Research
Journal of Adolescent Health Adolescent sexual health research studies educate youth and encourage them to practice safe sex. However, young people’s participation...
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Unnecessary Roughness? School Sports, Peer Networks and Male Adolescent Violence
American Sociological Review High school males in contact sports such as football and wrestling are at heightened risk of participating in serious...
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Black Victims of Violent Crime
Bureau of Justice Statistics Among the findings reported here, based on data gathered by the National Crime Victimization Survey and the FBI’s...
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State of the World’s Children 2008
UNICEF Each day about 26,000 children under age 5, most of whom live in developing regions, die from preventable causes. UNICEF is...
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Engaging Youth … On Their Turf: Creative Approaches to Connecting Youth through Community
Healthy Teen Network This report focuses on the importance of involving at-risk youth in positive activities in order to combat teen pregnancy,...
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Watch After-School Vouchers Get Shot Down in Congress
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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Local Schools Give Youth Workers More Class
Thinking Cap: Tyrone Jones of Our House weighs in. Photo: Matt Spangler Catonsville, Md.—Assistant Professor Lisa Boone raps a finger on the...
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A Giant Borrows its Way to Growth, and Risk
When the multi-service giant KidsPeace hired C.T. O’Donnell as CEO in 1999, he stepped into the shoes of a long-serving, beloved leader...
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Reform Plan: A New Model in Child Welfare Cases?
In a twist that could influence the resolution of other pending child welfare cases, an independent accreditation organization – the Council on...
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Mississippi Yearning
No matter how many problems your child welfare system has, you can usually take solace that you’re not in Mississippi. For years...
