The New York City Department of Health used data from the 2015 New York City Youth Risk Behavior Survey and findings from focus groups to craft this report highlighting the disproportionate mental health stressors LGBTQ youth experience in school. These include higher rates of bullying and harassment, higher rates of living away from parents or guardians, and increased rates of depression, self-harm and suicidal tendencies. The report also details the common sources of support commonly sought by LGBTQ youth to improve their mental and physical well-being.
Student Loan Repayment
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) takes a comprehensive look at how student loan borrowers and their repayment progress has changed over the past 14 years.
Unrealized Impact: The Case for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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This report released by NewSchools Venture Fund highlights the stark lack of diversity in education leadership across the country and the detrimental effects this has on the educational achievement of a student body which is growing more racially and ethnically diverse every year. Greater levels of teacher and leader diversity in the education sector are shown to result in improved academic performance and fewer disciplinary problems. "Unrealized Impact" is the most comprehensive study done on this issue and makes the case for a number of different reforms and initiatives to address it and improve the hiring, retention and advancement of minorities in education leadership positions.
Unlocking Youth: Legal Strategies to End Solitary Confinement in Juvenile Facilities
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The Juvenile Law Center recently released this new report which outlines the counterproductive nature and the great harm caused by the solitary confinement of youth in the juvenile justice system. The report then focuses on giving a number of policy, practice and advocacy recommendations to help bring about the end of the use of solitary confinement for youth across the nation.
2017 Home Visiting Yearbook
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This new report from the National Home Visiting Resource Center brings together comprehensive data on the current state of childhood home visiting across the nation. It shows how these home visiting programs, designed to help children and their families thrive, have been effectively implemented on the federal, state and county levels. While this is great news, the report also outlines how many more children and families in need could benefit from the proper utilization of these available programs.
Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood
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This groundbreaking new study recently released by the Georgetown University Law Center uses comprehensive survey data to show how the perception of black girls by the majority of the public differs from that of their peers. The results show, among many other worrying findings, that black girls are perceived as being older, less in need of nurturing, less in need of protection, and that they know more about adult topics at a younger age. The report shows how these perceptions have profound implications for how black girls are treated in the education and juvenile justice systems relative to their peers of other ethnicities.
Rethinking Credential Requirements in Early Education
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New America takes a look at the current state of education and skills requirements for early childhood educators. Currently many view these workers as "babysitters by another name" who don't necessarily need higher education and professional training like what is required for educators of older youth. This report argues against this misconception and lays out a framework for the proper education and training of this vulnerable workforce.
2017 KIDS COUNT Data Book
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The latest edition of the annual KIDS COUNT Data Book from the Annie E. Casey Foundation provides a comprehensive snapshot of the welfare of America's children and families, ranking each state's policy results. It shows that, despite the overall recovery from the Great Recession, the proportion of children living in high-poverty areas has risen. Additionally, while high school graduation rates have generally gone up nationwide, academic proficiency in several key subject areas has actually declined. Children's healthcare access has been a success story though, with the United States reaching a record figure of 95% of children having health insurance. The report concludes with a number of recommendations in all of these areas to reverse some worrying trends and improve on the gains in others.
Growing Up LGBT in America
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The Human Rights Campaign conducted exhaustive surveys of the largest known sample of LGBT youth ever (over 10,000) from across the country to produce this report summarizing and explaining the key difficulties these youth face as the grow up in their varied families and communities.
Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2016
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The latest edition of this annual report by the National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics examines the occurrence and nature of crime in schools and universities across the nation using a variety of robust data sources.
Implementing Evidence-Based Juvenile Justice Reforms
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The Urban Institute summarizes and analyzes the effectiveness of the implementation of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Juvenile Justice Reform and Reinvestment Initiative in three demonstration sites in Delaware, Iowa and Wisconsin.