Youth Today
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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...
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Youth Crime Ripple
Surge. Spike. A gathering storm. All of the above have been used in media coverage to describe trends in the most recent...
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Newsmakers for December 2006 – January 2007
Nonprofits Last summer, it looked as if the nation’s main suicide prevention hotline, 1-800-SUICIDE, was about to fade away. The U.S. Substance...
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Report Roundup for December 2006 – January 2007
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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As Specialty Courts Spread, the Jury Stays Out
Drug courts. Truancy courts. Girls’ courts. Mental health courts. Believing that traditional juvenile courts aren’t enough, juvenile justice reformers have created a...
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After-School Magnets
Providence, R.I.—It’s lunchtime at Samuel W. Bridgham Middle School. Wednesday’s menu consists of beef and macaroni, garlic bread, apples and chocolate milk....
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Curfews and Crime
As head of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, Dan Macallair has repeatedly given city officials scientific data that juvenile curfews...
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Newsmakers for November 2006
Nonprofits Judy Nee officially became the first person to serve as the board president and CEO of the 18-year-old, Boston-based National AfterSchool...
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Report Roundup for November 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Sure They Talk, But Can They Walk?
As a symbol of the wrong way to do things, the razor wire-enclosed Oak Hill Youth Center in Laurel, Md., has long...
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The High Passion and Low Pay of Youth Work
Youth work has never been a promising career path for people whose life goals include driving their Beemer to their beach house....
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Newsmakers for October 2006
Nonprofits Mark Russell is the new executive director at Kids Enjoy Exercise Now USA (KEEN), a D.C.-based nonprofit that provides free one-on-one...
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Report Roundup for October 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Hope Springs from Katrina’s Rubble
New Orleans, La. — Dolores Whitfield returned to her battered shotgun home, one of the rectangular domiciles that were invented here, shortly...
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Storm Opens Doors to ‘change the things we did wrong’
Simon Gonsoulin and David Bell saw different things happening in juvenile justice before Katrina came ashore. But ask either how the storm...
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Devastated Agency Strains To Shift Toward Preservation
For decades, Marketa Gautreau railed against the quality of service provided to Louisiana’s abused and neglected children as CEO of Prevent Child...
