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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...
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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...
