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Newsmakers for June 2007
Nonprofits Eckerd Youth Alternatives, a major provider of services to troubled youth, recently filled two of its top spots. David Dennis was...
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Time for Reform: Support Relatives in Providing Foster Care and Permanent Families for Children
Kids Are Waiting Children in out-of-home placements with relatives tend to be as safe as, or safer than, children placed with unrelated...
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Effect of Deployment on the Occurrence of Child Maltreatment in Military and Nonmilitary Families
American Journal of Epidemiology A time-series analysis by researchers at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and the Research Triangle...
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Additional Federal Action Could Help States Address Challenges in Providing Services to Children and Families
U.S. Government Accountability Office Despite substantial federal and state investment, states have had difficulty ensuring the safety, well-being and permanency of children...
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The Health Benefits of Volunteering: A Review of Recent Research
Corporation for National Service By helping others, volunteers appear to help themselves live longer, function at higher levels and reduce depression, says...
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Key Facts on Corporate Foundations
Foundation Center Giving by the nation’s more than 2,600 grant-making corporate foundations rose an estimated 6 percent in 2006, to a record...
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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...
