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2009 Camp 2 Grow Impact Report
American Camp Association A program to teach leadership skills through environmental issues and activities at summer camps is a positive experience...
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Millennials: A Portrait of Generation Next. Confident. Connected. Open to Change.
Pew Research Center This new report reflects the Pew Research Center’s effort to capture the nature of the nation’s newest generation:...
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The National Survey on Drug Use and Health Report: Substance Use among Black Adults
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) This new national survey shows that alcohol use and abuse by African-American adults...
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A New Era of Partnerships: Report of Recommendations to the President
President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships This far-reaching reports calls for new types of partnerships – not just those involving...
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A Look Back at the Adoption and Safe Families Act
Urban Institute & Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) This series of articles reflect the effects and aftermath of...
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What Are the Important Differences Among Kinship Foster Families?
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago This study looked at family structure and household composition of families providing kinship care,...
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Diploma Attainment Among Teen Mothers
Child Trends This Child Trends report, based on recently released data from a national survey, addresses whether teen mothers go on...
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Expanding Access and Opportunity: The Impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program
Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) The Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS) program, established in 1999 by the Bill & Melinda Gates...
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College- and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
Education Sector This report focuses on a new way of determining which high schools are turning out the students best prepared...
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Conceptualizing Juvenile Prostitution as Child Maltreatment: Findings from the National Juvenile Prostitution Study
University of New Hampshire, Sage Publications While juveniles involved in prostitution were previously viewed as adolescent runaways and “street youth” engaging...
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If Parents Don’t Speak English Well, Will Their Kids Get Locked Up?
Vera Institute of Justice Youth in the juvenile justice system with limited-English-proficient (LEP) parents have a higher chance of being prosecuted and...
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Facing Our Future: Children in the Aftermath of Immigration Enforcement
Urban Institute While millions of illegal immigrants continue to be a focus of attention and debate in the United States, the...
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Efficacy of a Theory-Based Abstinence-Only Intervention Over 24 Months: A Randomized Controlled Trial With Young Adolescents
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine This new federally funded study released last month provides the first clear evidence that abstinence-only...
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The Foreclosure Generation: The Long-Term Impact of the Housing Crisis on Latino Children and Families
National Council of La Raza & Center for Community Capital at the University of North Carolina (UNC) This report examines the...
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Kids Count Data Center
Annie E. Casey Foundation This state-by-state database tracking the health and well-being of U.S. children and their families has been updated...
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8th Global Conference, National Youth Service: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
The International Association for National Youth Service (IANYS) This is a report on the 8th Global Conference of the International Association...
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With Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them: Myths and Realities About Why So Many Students Fail to Finish College
Public Agenda (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) Only 20 percent of students at two-year colleges graduate within three years and only...
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Student Debt and the Class of 2008
Pew Charitable Trusts The rate of unemployment for college graduates ages 20-24 in 2008 was 7.6 percent; it rose to a...
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Kids’ Share: An Analysis of Federal Expenditures on Children Through 2008
Urban Institute Federal expenditures on children dropped from approximately 20 percent of domestic spending in 1960 to 15 percent in 2008....
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Success Stories From the California Endowment’s Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs
California Endowment The California Endowment has compiled information about obesity prevention programs that work and found that the successful initiatives included after-school...
