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A Guide to Successful Public-Private Partnerships for Youth Programs
The Finance Project/The Innovation Center Drawing from the wisdom and experiences of successful partnerships at the national, state and local levels, this...
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Forgone Health Care among U.S. Adolescents: Associations between Risk Characteristics and Confidentiality Concern
University of California, San Francisco/Journal of Adolescent Health Approximately one-quarter of middle and high school students say they can’t remember having had...
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The Consequences Aren’t Minor: The Impact of Trying Youth as Adults and Strategies for Reform
Justice Policy Institute Incarcerating youths as adults does not reduce crime and disproportionately affects youth of color, according to this study, released...
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Performance Measurement: Getting Results
The Urban Institute The Urban Institute Press has released a second edition of its step-by-step explanation of how to obtain and analyze...
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Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children: A Fifth Follow-up Review of Industry Practices in the Motion Picture, Music Recording & Electronic Game Industries
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) The FTC’s latest report to Congress gives the movie, music and video-game industries a mixed review for their...
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The State of Black America 2007: Portrait of the Black Male
National Urban League This year’s annual Equality Index – a statistical measurement of disparities between blacks and whites in the areas of...
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State Estimates of Substance Use from the 2004-2005 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health
U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) This annual national survey provides state-level rates for 23 measures of substance use...
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Leveling the Path to Participation: Volunteering and Civic Engagement among Youth from Disadvantaged Circumstances
Corporation for National and Community Service Teens from low-income backgrounds who volunteer become empowered and are more likely to become politically engaged,...
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Can Nonprofits and Schools Share Power?
Henriquez-McArdle has helped South Brooklyn Community High School evolve into a model for curtailing dropouts. Photo: Nura Qureshi Brooklyn, N.Y.—For four years,...
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‘A Swift Kick in the Pants’
Youth at a TYC assessment unit. Photo: Michael Ainsworth/Dallas Morning News The most stunning aspect of the sex abuse scandal rocking the...
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Newsmakers for April 2007
Nonprofits Andy Munoz is the newest leader at the Academy for Educational Development’s Center for Youth Development and Policy Research. After a...
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Is Kinship Care Good for Kids?
Center for Law and Social Policy More than 2.5 million children are being raised by relatives – mostly grandparents – because their...
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Voices of Students on Engagement: A Report on the 2006 High School Survey of Student Engagement
Indiana University This survey of students in 110 high schools in 26 states aims to illustrate how intellectually engaged high school students...
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Tool Kit for Creating Your Own Truancy Reduction Program
U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention This online toolkit covers such topics as the extent of truancy, its causes and...
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Adolescent Risk Behaviorsand Religion: Findings from a National Study
University of Pennsylvania Based on a national random sample of 2,004 youths, ages 11 to 18, the study finds that youth perceive...
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Medicaid: Health Promotionand Disease Prevention for School Readiness
The Commonwealth Fund Comprehensive well-child health services, such as those covered by Medicaid, play a critical role in preparing children for school...
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2006 State Juvenile Justice Legislation
The National Juvenile Defender Center This detailed report examines juvenile justice legislation by issue and by state, and allows users to compare...
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Drug Abuse Warning Network, 2005: National Estimates of Drug-Related Emergency Department Visits
U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) SAMHSA’s Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) system provides data on emergency hospital visits involving...
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Teens and Prescription Drugs: An Analysis of Recent Trends on the Emerging Drug Threat
Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) This report combines data from national studies and published reports to show trends in illegal...
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FY 2008 Federal Drug Budget: Prevention Funding Continues to Decline
Carnevale Associates Spending on federal anti-drug programs will decline under the Bush administration’s 2008 proposed drug-control budget – reflecting a decline in...
