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Report Roundup for December 2002 – January 2003
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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The Youth Vote: Why Bother?
Maybe trying to get more young people to vote isn’t worth the trouble. Blasphemy? Certainly to the tens of millions of American...
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Digital Divide Disappears … Or Maybe Not
Tacoma, Wash.—It’s early afternoon at the Pierce County Boys & Girls Club, where youth worker Ron Andrade sits in a back room...
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Calif. Voters Pump Up After-School Spending
Proponents of after-school programming will be watching California to see if a voter-mandated spending increase will help kids as its supporters envision,...
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Canada’s Youth in Care: Caring for Each Other
Ottawa, Canada—The meeting starts in the wood-paneled boardroom of Ottawa’s Children’s Aid Society. The stylish decor isn’t totally lost on the eight...
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Congressional Gridlock Raises Anxiety at Youth Agencies
In a good year, Martha de Acosta knows exactly how much money to expect from the federal government. This is not a...
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Newsmakers for November 2002
Nonprofits After 35 years, Center for Community Change (CCC) Director Andy Mott has left the organization to pursue other personal interests in...
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High School After School: Oxymoron or Opportunity?
The idea of “high school after-school programming” is an oxymoron if one’s image of after-school activities involves 11-year-olds munching snacks, getting help...
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Children and Youth Funding Update
Foundations in the United States “have targeted increasing shares of their giving to the needs of children and youth” over the past...
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Nonfamily Abducted Children: National Estimates and Characteristics
Drawing from data compiled in the 1999 National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Thrownaway Children, the authors break down the...
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In Our Backyard: How 3 L.A. Neighborhoods Affect Kids’ Lives
Study authors Anne R. Pebley and Mary E. Vaiana set out to answer the question of how a neighborhood can affect the...
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The Vast Majority of Federally Eligible Children Did Not Receive Child Care Assistance in FY 2000
This report found that only about 14 percent of children eligible for the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) and...
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Five Things Everyone Should Know about S-CHIP
This report examines the impact of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) and what can be done to improve its effectiveness....
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Child Labor: Labor Can Strengthen Its Efforts to Protect Children Who Work
The U.S. Department of Labor does not adequately enforce child labor laws, in part because it does not sufficiently guide or train...
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Like Now: Changing the Future Today With Youth Advisory Boards
Designed as an introduction to youth advisory boards, this report explains why the Kauffman Foundation started one and “what we’ve learned in...
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Ignorance Only: HIV/AIDS, Human Rights and Federally Funded Abstinence-Only Programs in the United States
Focusing on Texas, which has a significant number of abstinence-only sex ed programs, the researchers contend that those programs endanger the health...
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Service-Learning Sits in School
In the only state that makes every youth perform “service” in order to graduate from high school, the concept of service has...
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Youth Media Crank Up the Volume
Chicago—With summer waning, traffic blocked off and kids and adults milling about, Ayanna Freeman appears on a TV monitor in the middle...
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Faith-Based Drive Sputters
Congress is not likely to enact legislation this session that would make it easier for faith-based organizations to compete for federal grants...
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Criminal Records Checks: National Agencies Click on Fast, Cheap Methods for Screening Volunteers
Several developments in the past few months have suddenly made it possible for any youth-serving nonprofit to quickly find out if any...
