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Towards a New Model of Success for Disconnected Youth
Youth Development Institute (YDI) This report serves as a guide for forming partnerships between community-based organizations and colleges that want to...
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How Colleges and Universities Are Improving Degree Completion
Southern Regional Education Board Amid growing concern over lackluster college completion rates in the United States, this report takes a look...
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Programs and Policies to Assist High School Dropouts in the Transition to Adulthood
Princeton University and the Brookings Institution This selection among nine articles in this latest publication of The Future of Children...
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Children’s Receipt of Health Care Services and Family Health Insurance Patterns
Annals of Family Medicine This report examines the relationship between parents’ health care coverage and the coverage, or lack thereof, of...
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The Multi-site Evaluation of the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative
Urban Institute This is an evaluation of the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI), which since 2003 has funded 69...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among Young Adults
Child Trends This report categorizes the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among 18- to 26-year-olds and also provides insight into...
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Adolescent Smoking and Maternal Risk Factors
U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Mothers who smoke cigarettes and/or have had a major depressive episode (MDE) in...
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Early Course of Nicotine Dependence in Adolescent Smokers
American Academy of Pediatrics While there was already evidence of a correlation between the onset of nicotine dependence symptoms and long-term...
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Parental R-Rated Movie Restriction and Early-Onset Alcohol Use
Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs Parents who allow their children to view R-rated movies are increasing the likelihood that...
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What’s Going on with Young People Today? The Long and Twisting Path to Adulthood
Richard A. Settersten Jr. and Barbara Ray; The Future of Children This report takes a look at what its researchers call...
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How Colleges and Universities Are Improving Degree Completion
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Amid growing concern over lackluster college completion rates in the United States, this report takes a look...
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Enhancing Quality in Afterschool Programs: Fifth-Year Report on a Process Evaluation of Prime Time Palm Beach County, Inc.
This is the fifth-year report of an evaluation of Prime Time Palm Beach County, an intermediary whose role is to improve...
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Federal Expenditures on Elementary-Age Children in 2008
This report is one in a series that addresses federal spending on children, broken down into three age groups: infants and...
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The Impact of Immigration Enforcement on Child Welfare
This report frames the immigration policy debate as a child welfare issue, outlining various ways children and their families are affected...
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Survey of Entering Student Engagement, Benchmarking & Benchmarks: Effective Practice with Entering Students
This report supports “benchmarking” as a way for community colleges to measure how well they are making sure the students who...
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Fostering Effective Grassroots Partnerships: Lessons from Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
This brief outlines key themes and guidelines based on several Mathematica studies of faith-based and community organizations and initiatives, which have...
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Millennial Donors: A Study of Millennial Giving and Engagement Habits
Millennials, or Generation Y, represent a growing population of donors in the nonprofit field. This report examines the giving, volunteering and...
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Foundation Growths and Giving Estimates
The 2009 decline in giving by foundations was the largest on record, with the more than 75,000 grant-making U.S. foundations reducing...
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The Return of the Multi-Generational Family Household
This Pew Research Center report summarizes changes in family living situations over time, noting the rise in multi-generational households and discussing...
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Shaping a Healthier Generation: Healthy Kids, Healthy America State Profiles of Progress
This report on the National Governors Association’s Healthy Kids, Healthy America grant program profiles progress made by states on children’s obesity...
