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Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration The agencies behind this report...
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Understanding the 4-H Workforce: Staffing, Structures and Salaries
4-H Center for Youth Development This intriguing internal look at a youth work force provides baseline data about 4-H staffing structures and...
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Portrait of the American Youth Worker
You start working with kids as a single 20-something, full of passion for making a difference. By your mid-30s, many of you...
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Are Justice Funds Up For Grabs?
The reality of tight budgets in a time of war has rendered youth advocates fairly quiet on budget battles in recent years,...
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Newsmakers for March 2007
Nonprofits The D.C.-based Child Welfare League of America has hired Christine James-Brown to replace outgoing CEO Shay Bilchik, who leaves the organization...
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One-in-Five Kids Participate in After-School Programs at Faith-Based Facilities, Outpacing More Traditional After-School Settings
Junior Achievement Worldwide This survey of 1,200 teens found that nearly 18 percent say they participate in after-school programs at churches, temples...
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Standards of Practice for Attorneys Representing Parents in Abuse and Neglect Cases
ABA Center on Children and the Law A committee of practicing attorneys and child welfare professionals from jurisdictions throughout the country compiled...
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Comparative Views on the Role and Effect of Faith in Social Services
Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy (Rockefeller Institute of Government) This set of case studies compares faith-based and secular providers of...
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Cost-Effective Investments in Children
The Brookings Institution This report identifies four areas of investment in children and uses cost-benefit ratios to argue for greater federal funding...
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Children’s Health Insurance: State Experiences in Implementing SCHIP and Considerations for Reauthorization
U.S. Government Accountability Office This report examines the allocation of funds in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), focusing on spending...
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The Dangers of Detention: The Impact of Incarcerating Youth in Detention and Other Secure Facilities
Justice Policy Institute Pretrial detention of youth before they are found delinquent is commonly misapplied and can lead to future delinquent behavior,...
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Social Networking Websites and Teens: An Overview
Pew Internet & American Life Project This survey of American youths online, ages 12 to 17, finds that 55 percent use online...
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Preventing Teen Motor Crashes: Contributions from the Behavioral and Social Sciences: Workshop Report
The National Academies This report summarizes presentations and discussions from a workshop where participants from various disciplines gathered to explore how the...
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Regulating Teenage Abortion in the United States: Politics and Policy
International Journal of Law, Policy, and the Family More than three decades after Roe v. Wade, there is little constitutional wiggle room...
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Improving the Child Welfare Workforce: Lessons Learned from Class Action Litigation
The National Center for Youth Law/Children’s Rights Improving the Child Welfare Workforce (Click image for larger chart.) The percentage of professionals surveyed...
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Offending During Late Adolescence: How Do Youth Aging Out of Care Compare with Their Peers?
Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago Using a sample of young adults aging out of foster care and a nationally...
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Report Card 7: Child Poverty in Perspective
UNICEF’s Innocenti Research Centre The United States scored near the bottom in a UNICEF report released last month that ranked the well-being...
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Survey Identifies Teen Online Behaviors Associated With Online Interpersonal Victimization
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine Using data from a 2005 telephone survey of nearly 1,500 American youth ages 10 to 17...
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The Study that Ignited (or Diluted) Mentoring
You’d think an organization that was serving tens of thousands of kids and had become a household name wouldn’t feel “vulnerable.” But...
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Will Musical Chairs Create a Different Tune?
Youth issues are expected to get greater attention under the Democratic Congress that will be seated in January. As a result of...
