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Newsmakers for October 2007
Nonprofits The National Human Services Assembly (NHSA) hired Karen Heller Key to serve as vice president of programs for both the assembly...
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Pork Comes Flying Back
Once again, writing to your local congressman literally pays off. After being all but banned in a purported wave of concern over...
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Newsmakers for September 2007
Feds President Bush has nominated Diane Rath to take over for the departed Wade Horn as assistant secretary for family support at...
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Choices, Changes and Challenges: Curriculum and Instruction in the NCLB Era
Center on Education Policy Nearly two-thirds of U.S. school districts report that since the implementation of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) during...
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African American Children in Foster Care: Additional HHS Assistance Needed to Help States Reduce the Proportion in Care
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Asked to analyze the major factors behind the disproportionately high number of African-American children in foster care,...
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What We Know Now that We Didn’t Know Then about the Criminal Justice System’s Involvement in Families with Whom Child Welfare Agencies Have Contact
Center for Social Policy and Research, Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago In the decade since the...
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Rite of Passage? Why Young Adults Become Uninsured and How New Policies Can Help
The Commonwealth Fund More than 13 million adults ages 19 to 29 lacked health insurance coverage in 2005, according to this report....
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Prospective Associations of Co-Rumination With Friendship and Emotional Adjustment: Considering the Socioemotional Trade-Offs of Co-Rumination
Developmental Psychology, Vol. 43, No. 4 Three psychologists at the University of Missouri-Columbia conducted this study into the effects of co-ruminating, or...
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The Effectiveness of Universal School-Based Programs for the Prevention of Violent and Aggressive Behavior
The Task Force on Community Preventive Services For two years beginning in 2004, the task force conducted reviews of 53 published scientific...
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Amplifiers of Developmental and Negative Experiences in Organized Activities
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign This study evaluated four sets of factors thought to affect adolescents’ developmental (positive)...
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The Quality of School-Age Child Care in After-School Settings
Child and Early Education Research Connections Although research indicates that regular participation in high-quality after-school programs yields many positive developmental benefits for...
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HHS Actions Would Help States Prepare Youth in the Foster Care System for Independent Living
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) In assessing the implementation of the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999 (FCIA), which doubled federal funding...
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Core Principles for Engaging Young People in Community Change
The Forum for Youth Investment (FYI) These eight principles for engaging youth as partners in community change can help organizations and communities...
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Under One Roof: Primary Care Models that Work for Adolescents
Incenter Strategies/MCH Policy Research Center This report describes an interdisciplinary model of physical, behavioral and reproductive health care operating in a hospital-based...
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Trauma Among Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: Critical Issues and New Directions
National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice In the juvenile justice system, the prevalence of youth exposed to trauma is believed...
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Recommendations for WIA Reauthorization Legislation: Title I Youth Provisions
Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) At a time when increased attention is being paid to the fact that nearly one...
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Part-Timers: More Gain Than Pain
Charleston, W.Va.—Missy Miller happily serves as membership manager here at the Charleston Family YMCA, but she still plans a career in crime....
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Prevention Cures Fiscal Pain
Photo: Photo courtesy of SAY San Diego—It took just a few days for Michael Carr to learn the cold realities of working...
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Newsmakers for August 2007
Jill Schumann Nonprofits Changes are afoot at the Washington-based, 70-member National Human Services Assembly (NHSA) as Chairwoman Roxanne Spillett and Vice Chairman...
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California’s Afterschool Expansion
William T. Grant Foundation This very readable report, written by consultant and former journalist Joseph Ames, details how California implemented the largest...
