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A Forty-Year Update of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders: Preliminary Findings
The Eisenhower Foundation From 1968 to 2006, the child poverty rate rose from 15 percent to 17 percent, four times the rate...
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The Impact of the Mortgage Crisis on Children
First Focus Two million children’s families will lose their homes to foreclosures in 2008 and 2009, estimates First Focus – an event...
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Residential Facilities: Improved Data and Enhanced Oversight Would Help Safeguard the Well-Being of Youth with Behavioral and Emotional Challenges
The number of state-reported fatalities of youth in residential facilities, by agency and facility type. U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Federal investigations...
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Former Justice Official Says Juvenile Chief Misled Her
A former assistant attorney general says the head of the nation’s juvenile justice agency misled her into approving millions of dollars in...
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SCHIP Limits: Who Holds the Cards?
Senate Democrats last month tried new legislation and nasty words (“fatwah”) to stop the White House from limiting enrollment in the federal...
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Child Welfare’s Historic Headache
Historic Removal: FLDS women and children board a school bus to go from the YFZ Ranch to a child protective services processing...
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Volunteer Screens Full of Holes
As an industry that relies significantly on volunteers to carry out its work, the youth field knows that a lot of agencies...
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YouthBuild’s Shaky Foundation
Tanarae Greenman watched YouthBuild quickly grow into one of her most popular and effective programs at the Community Services Consortium in Lebanon,...
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Web Watch at Work
It’s almost an accepted fact of life that employees will use their office computers for some personal Internet surfing – checking sports...
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Newsmakers for May 2008
Nonprofits Carter Savage, vice president of youth development services for the Atlanta-based Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA), has left that...
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More Time for Teens: Understanding Teen Participation – Frequency, Intensity and Duration – In Boys & Girls Clubs
Public/Private Ventures Written halfway through a three-year evaluation of Boys & Girls Clubs, the report examines what it takes to get and...
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What Matters, What Works: Advancing Achievement After School
The James Irvine Foundation and Public/Private Ventures This report on Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) – an eight-year, $58 million...
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Building A Better Bridge: Helping Young Adults Enter and Succeed in College
Youth Development Institute (YDI) YDI tracked 39 young people as they advanced from a earning a GED with the help of a...
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Cities in Crisis: A Special Analytic Report on High School Graduation
Editorial Projects in Education Research Center Released by the America’s Promise Alliance to help launch its Dropout Prevention campaign, this report provides...
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Disconnected Youth: Federal Action Could Address Some of the Challenges Faced by Local Programs That Reconnect Youth to Education and Employment
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Studies show that youths disconnected from school and jobs are more likely to engage in crime, become...
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The Role of the Courts in Improving the Lives of Children and Families
California Blue Ribbon Commission on Children in Foster Care California has overburdened its courts and the child welfare workers who oversee the...
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Third Party Policy and Practice Review, Denver Department of Human Services
Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) and Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) The recent abuse-related deaths of local children “known to the...
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Health Insurance: Most College Students Are Covered through Employer-Sponsored Plans, and Some Colleges and States Are Taking Steps to Increase Coverage
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Many college students struggle to obtain health insurance because they lose their dependent coverage under their parents’...
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Adolescents with Metabolic Syndrome Have a History of Low Fitness and Physical Activity Levels
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC) Physically inactive youth are between five and six times as likely as active youth to...
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Youth Courts: An Empirical Update and Analysis of Future Organizational and Research Needs
Hamilton Fish Institute on School and Community Violence Third in a series of reports funded by the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice...
