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The NIH MRI Study of Normal Brain Development
National Institutes of Health (NIH)/Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society The first findings from the NIH’s large MRI Study of Normal Brain...
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Interactive Food & Beverage Marketing: Targeting Children and Youth in the Digital Age
Center for Digital Democracy and the Berkeley Media Studies Group Food and beverage companies are using cell phones, instant messaging, video games,...
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An Action Plan for Behavioral Health Workforce Development Strengthening Professional Identity: Challenges of the Addictions Treatment Workforce
U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration These two resources can help mental health and substance abuse professionals organize and strengthen...
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Focal Point: Traumatic Stress/Child Welfare
Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children’s Mental Health The winter 2007 edition of the semiannual magazine Focal Point highlights...
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The Collective Leadership Framework: A Workbook for Cultivating and Sustaining Community Change
W.K. Kellogg Foundation/Kellogg Leadership for Community Change KLCC acknowledges that “conventional approaches to training leaders often overlook important community voices.” To ensure...
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Identifying Immigrant Families Involved with Child Welfare Systems
The Urban Institute More than one-fifth of all U.S. children have at least one immigrant parent, according to figures from the Urban...
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Substance Abuse Interventions for Young Offenders
Juvenile and Family Court Journal The article looks at the early success indicators of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Reclaiming Futures initiative...
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2007 Report: Child and Youth Well-Being Index, 1975-2005
The Foundation for Child Development (FCD) Following an upward trend that peaked in the early 2000s, improvements in the quality of life...
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Restraints that Kill
Keymar, Md.—The setting is pastoral: a 120-acre estate in central Maryland, where Preakness and Kentucky Derby winners were once raised. But the...
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Abstinence Ed’s Nightmare
“I am really pissed off!” That’s Althea McMillan, who runs an abstinence-only education program in Miami, virtually shouting back at a wave...
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ICE’d Out
Crackdowns on Illegal Immigrants: Administrative arrests by fiscal year As federal immigration authorities raided a New Bedford, Mass., manufacturing plant in March,...
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Loss of Faith
Strickland: New governor examines Ohio’s faith-based operations. Photo: Office of the Governor of Ohio To get a hint of how the nation’s...
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Newsmakers for May 2007
Horn Government Wade Horn stepped down last month as head of the U.S. Administration for Children and Families (ACF), and it’s...
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Assessing the Well-Being of Adolescents: Guides for Out-of School Time Program Practitioners
Child Trends Three new Research-to-Results briefs from the nonprofit Child Trends offer research-based advice and assistance to after-school practitioners charged with looking...
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Measuring Youth Program Quality: A Guide to Assessment Tools
Forum for Youth Investment (FYI) Given the “size and diversity of the youth-serving sector,” FYI notes, “it is unrealistic to expect that...
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Afterschool for the Global Age
Asia and International Studies in the Schools This report presents the findings from a national meeting convened by the Asia Society and...
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School Engagement and Youth Who Run Away from Care: The Need for Cross-System Collaboration
Chapin Hall Center for Children Chapin Hall researchers give voice to youth who have run away from their foster care placements and...
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Religious Service Attendance and Civic Engagement among 15- to 25-Year-Olds
The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) Nearly four in 10 young people between ages 20 and...
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Education Actions May Help Improve Implementation and Evaluation of Supplemental Educational Services
U.S. Government Accountability Office The No Child Left Behind Act requires school districts with failing schools that receive Title I funds to...
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Kids Share 2007: How Children Fare in the Federal Budget
Urban Institute From 1960 to 2006, spending on youth by more than 100 major federal programs shifted “from broad-based programs to programs...
