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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...
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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...
