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2007 Montana Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)
Montana says its 2007 YRBS shows a 45 percent drop in reported methametaphine use among high schoolers from 2005 to 2007, from...
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Depression among Adults Employed Full-Time, by Occupational Category
Depression negatively affects U.S. industries through lost productivity, employee absenteeism and low morale. Each year, companies lose an estimated $30 billion to...
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Hitting the MARC: Establishing Foster Care Minimum Adequate Rates for Children
States must raise the rates by which they reimburse foster parents by an average of 36 percent to cover the actual costs...
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Parent Recruitment and Training: A Crucial Neglected Child Welfare Strategy
The foster care financing system’s allocation of federal funds shortchanges children in need of loving, permanent families, according to this new report...
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This Just In: Good Help is Hard to Find
"Good help is so hard to find these days."– Jafar, in "The Return of Jafar" Let’s admit right off the bat that...
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Newsmakers for November 2007
Nonprofits A key grant-making staffer at the Princeton, N.J.-based Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) will lead one of the country’s leading mentoring...
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UNICEF’s New Tricks Yield Treats
A costumed vampire reaches for the doorbell and squeals, “Trick-or-Treat!” In one hand he holds a candy bag; in the other, an...
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Lifting the Abandoned Children of Katrina
New Orleans, La.—If you run a youth program in a poor community, you probably feel that you don’t have enough resources, that...
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The Long-Term Effects of After-School Programming on Educational Adjustment and Juvenile Crime: A Study of the LA’s BEST After-School Program
The Afterschool Alliance An evaluation of LA’s BEST – the largest after-school program in Los Angeles – finds that youth who were...
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Lifelong Readers: Driving Civic Engagement
Newspaper Association of America Youth who read newspapers are more likely to volunteer, vote and be engaged in civic activities as adults,...
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The Role of Religious and Social Organizations in the Lives of Disadvantaged Youth
Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government Using the National Survey of Families and Households, this paper examines whether participation in religious and...
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Investing in Children
Urban Institute/The New America Foundation/The Partnership for America’s Economic Success Federal investment in children is likely to decline over the next 10...
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Department of Justice Conference Expenditures
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General An audit by the inspector general found that sponsors and planners for 10...
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What Happened to the Insurance Coverage of Children and Adults in 2006?
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation This analysis of new U.S. Census Bureau data on health insurance coverage examines the details behind...
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Human Trafficking of Children in the United States
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools This fact sheet describes the nature and extent of the trafficking of...
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We’ve Got a Gun? Comparing Reports of Adolescents and Their Parents about Household Firearms University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy and Practice
Guns – especially those found in youths’ own homes – are a leading cause among adolescents of injury and death to themselves...
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Red Families V. Blue Families
The George Washington University Law School/Social Science Research Network Increasing political polarization in the United States is the result of the development...
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Youth Exposure to Alcohol Advertising on Radio, 2006
Georgetown University, Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth The amount spent by the alcohol industry on radio advertising decreased by 38 percent...
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2006 National Survey on Drug Use & Health: National Results
U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Illicit drug use among youth ages 12 to 17 is at a five-year low,...
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Is There Common Ground? An Exploratory Study of the Interests and Needs of Community-Based and Faith-Based Youth Workers
National Collaboration for Youth/Search Institute Youth workers from community-based youth development settings and faith-based settings agree that it is essential that they...
