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Trends in the Diagnosis of Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents: 1999-2007

Academy of Pediatrics Childhood obesity has emerged in recent years as a serious problem in America, receiving widespread media coverage. According to...

Learning Science in Informal Environments: People, Places and Pursuits

Patient Teenagers? A Comparison of the Sexual Behavior of Virginity Pledgers and Matched Non-Pledgers

Matched Comparison of Children in Kinship Care and Foster Care on Child Welfare Outcomes

Colorado State University This study compared permanency, safety and stability outcomes for 318 "matched" pairs of children placed in either kinship care...

Unclaimed Children Revisited: The Status of Children’s Mental Health Policy in the United States

National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) This report examines whether the "explosion of knowledge" that occurred over the past quarter century...

State of America’s Children 2008

Children's Defense Fund (CDF) This annual, comprehensive statistical review of key child data shows "epidemic numbers of children at risk" according to...

Using Family Group Conferencing to Assist Immigrant Children and Families in the Child Welfare System

American Humane Association This paper considers key factors in using Family Group Conferenceing with citizen children whose families traverse American borders and/or...

Progress Report on the Shared Youth Vision Partnership

The Shared Vision Partnership provides no money but helps states figure out how to maximize resources going toward youth populations. For example,...

Family Rejection as a Predictor of Negative Health Outcomes in White and Latino Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young Adults

César E. Chávez Institute, San Francisco State University/University of Utah Rejection by their families translates into significantly poorer physical and mental health...

The Economic Crisis Hits Home

First Focus/National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth The nation's school districts are experiencing an upsurge in the number...

Adolescent Health Services: Missing Opportunities

National Research Council/Institute of Medicine (NRC/IOM) Adolescents receive health services from a fragmented system that's poorly designed to meet their needs, according...

Sex and Tech: Results from a Survey of Teens and Young Adults

The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy/CosmoGirl.com About one in five teens say they have electronically sent, or posted online,...

Expanding Options: State Financing of Education Pathways for Struggling Students and Out-of-School Youth

National Youth Employment Coalition The report looks at how three "leader" states, Indiana, Massachusetts and North Carolina, are accessing public funds for...

Educationally/Insufficient? An Analysis of the Availability & Educational Quality of Children’s E/I Programming

Children Now Commercial television broadcasters are required by law to air a minimum of three hours of children's educational/instructional (EI) programming per...

Relationships, Rigor, and Readiness: Strategies for Improving High Schools

MDRC Even though many of the high school reforms taking shape today might be promising and based on sound research principles, "little...

Strategies for Success: A Plan to Align Out-of-School Time Initiatives with High School Reform

The report recommends ways New York City after-school programs for teens can be improved, and stresses the importance of collaboration between high...

Growing Bigger Better: Lessons from Experience Corps’ Expansion in Five Cities

Improving the literacy skills of low-income elementary students.

Effective Practices for Engaging At-Risk Youth in Service

Population of "at-risk" youth expected to rise by 2015.

One Dream, Two Realities: Perspectives of Parents on America’s High Schools

Only 15 percent of parents of students at low-performing schools are satisfied with their children's education, as opposed to 58 percent of...

Three Independent Evaluations of Healthy Kids Programs Find Dramatic Gains in Well-Being of Children and Families

About 90 percent of the 60,000 children enrolled in Healthy Kids in those counties receive regular medical care in the form of...