U.S. Government Accountability Office This report examines the allocation of funds in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), focusing on spending...
Justice Policy Institute Pretrial detention of youth before they are found delinquent is commonly misapplied and can lead to future delinquent behavior,...
Pew Internet & American Life Project This survey of American youths online, ages 12 to 17, finds that 55 percent use online...
The National Academies This report summarizes presentations and discussions from a workshop where participants from various disciplines gathered to explore how the...
International Journal of Law, Policy, and the Family More than three decades after Roe v. Wade, there is little constitutional wiggle room...
The National Center for Youth Law/Children’s Rights Improving the Child Welfare Workforce (Click image for larger chart.) The percentage of professionals surveyed...
Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago Using a sample of young adults aging out of foster care and a nationally...
UNICEF’s Innocenti Research Centre The United States scored near the bottom in a UNICEF report released last month that ranked the well-being...
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine Using data from a 2005 telephone survey of nearly 1,500 American youth ages 10 to 17...
You’d think an organization that was serving tens of thousands of kids and had become a household name wouldn’t feel “vulnerable.” But...
Youth issues are expected to get greater attention under the Democratic Congress that will be seated in January. As a result of...
Surge. Spike. A gathering storm. All of the above have been used in media coverage to describe trends in the most recent...
Nonprofits Last summer, it looked as if the nation’s main suicide prevention hotline, 1-800-SUICIDE, was about to fade away. The U.S. Substance...
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
Drug courts. Truancy courts. Girls’ courts. Mental health courts. Believing that traditional juvenile courts aren’t enough, juvenile justice reformers have created a...
Providence, R.I.—It’s lunchtime at Samuel W. Bridgham Middle School. Wednesday’s menu consists of beef and macaroni, garlic bread, apples and chocolate milk....
As head of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, Dan Macallair has repeatedly given city officials scientific data that juvenile curfews...
Nonprofits Judy Nee officially became the first person to serve as the board president and CEO of the 18-year-old, Boston-based National AfterSchool...
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
As a symbol of the wrong way to do things, the razor wire-enclosed Oak Hill Youth Center in Laurel, Md., has long...