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When Girls Don’t Graduate, We All Fail
National Women’s Law Center Female dropouts earn significantly lower wages than male dropouts, are at greater risk of unemployment and are more...
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Juvenile Court Statistics 2003–2004
National Center for Juvenile Justice The most recent in the Juvenile Court Statistics series, this report describes delinquency cases handled between 1985...
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Getting Juvenile Justice Right in New York: Proven Interventions Will Cut Crime and Save Money
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids – New York According to this report, nearly three-quarters of the 17,500 juveniles held in New York...
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Promotion and Prevention in Mental Health: Strengthening Parenting and Enhancing Child Resilience
U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration This report to Congress promotes the aggressive use of research-based mental health interventions, combined...
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School Mental Health: Role of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration [SAMHSA] and Factors Affecting Service Provision
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...
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Mentoring, Policy and Politics
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...
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The Parenting Imperative: Investing in Parents So Children and Youth Succeed
The National Human Services Assembly Despite the fact that parents are one of the most important factors in positive child and youth...
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Paying the Price: The Impact of Immigration Raids on America’s Children
The Urban Institute With federal immigration raids on the rise, this report examines what happens to the children of adults who are...
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Repeat Teen Childbearing: Differences Across States and by Race and Ethnicity
Child Trends Although the teen birth rate reached a record low in 2004, nearly 20 percent of teen births that year were...
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Substance Abuse Treatment Provider Views of ‘Culture’: Implications for Behavioral Health Care in Rural Settings
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation The provision of culturally competent substance abuse and mental health services calls for behavioral health providers...
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Exploring Girls’ Leadership (2007)
Girl Scout Research Institute GSRI’s review analyzes literature from the youth development and youth leadership fields and examines lingering contrasts between youth...
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For Juvenile Justice, A Panel of One
One grant proposal was to improve evaluations of state juvenile justice programs. The two Justice Department reviewers loved it, each giving it...
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Newsmakers for December 2007-January 2008
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...
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It’s Almost Easy Being Green
As the Nobel Peace Prize in Al Gore’s trophy case will attest, being green is officially hip again. But environmental friendliness was...
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Meeting the High School Challenge: Making After-School Work for Older Students
Older youths who participate in after-school programs significantly improve their chances for success, but serving them effectively is one of the greatest...
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Fighting Poverty through Incentives and Work Mandates for Young Men
In this policy brief featured in a recent issue of the journal The Future of Children, Brookings senior fellow Ron Haskins examines...
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Pathways to Juvenile Detention Reform: Beyond Detention – System Transformation Through Juvenile Detention Reform
This is the 14th report in the Casey Foundation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) Pathways series on juvenile detention reform. It documents...
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Residential Treatment Programs: Concerns Regarding Abuse and Death in Certain Programs for Troubled Youth
Residential treatment programs operating as wilderness therapy programs, boot camps and academies cite positive outcomes, but there have been numerous allegations regarding...
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Combination Treatment Most Effective in Adolescents with Depression
A clinical trial of 439 adolescents (ages 12 to 17) with major depression has found that a combination of medication and psychotherapy...
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Adolescent Romantic Relationships as Precursors of Healthy Adult Marriages
Policymakers interested in promoting healthy adult marriages need to understand how adolescent romantic relationships – particularly those of low-income youth – function,...
