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Newsmakers for February 2008

Government Emily DeRocco left her post at the U.S. Department of Labor in January. DeRocco was the assistant secretary in charge of...

Safety in Numbers

Street Outreach Goes Suburban

Minneapolis—When outreach worker Amanda Danielson sets out to connect with homeless and runaway youth, she does not walk into the supply room...

A Volunteer’s Impact on Policy

San Francisco—You could look at Cora Tomalinas, a delicately aging woman strolling to the stage in a winged white dress to accept...

Wanted: More Black Leaders

A critical shortfall in African-American leadership at nonprofits compelled more than 100 people to meet in October at a first-ever conclave to...

Racial Disparity in Foster Care Admissions

Chapin Hall Center for Children Approximately 37 percent of children in foster care are African-American, despite the fact that African-American children make...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...