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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...
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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...
