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Charting the Way to Delinquency Prevention for Girls
Despite a rise in female juvenile arrests, violence among female youth has not increased.
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2008 “Teens and Entrepreneurship” Poll
Junior Achievement Teens are less interested in starting their own businesses than they were a year ago.
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Does Watching Sex on Television Predict Teen Pregnancy? Findings from a National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
Teens who watch a lot of sexual content on television are more likely to get pregnant or to get their partners pregnant.
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Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Initiative: Further Progress is Needed in Developing a Risk-Based Monitoring Approach to Help HHS Improve Program Oversight
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is not effectively ensuring that its grantees meet performance goals regarding the provision of...
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What Works in Programs Serving Fathers Involved in the Criminal Justice System: Lessons from Evidence-Based Evaluations
The percentage of children with a father in prison increased 58 percent between 1991 and 1999.
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Creating Postsecondary Pathways to Good Jobs for Young High School Dropouts
30 percent of all youth and 50 percent of minority youth leave public schools without diplomas.
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Sexual and Reproductive Health Behaviors among Teen and Young Adult Men: A Descriptive Portrait
Almost two-thirds of sexually experienced males ages 15 through 24 report they did not receive any reproductive health services, as opposed to...
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Condom Use and Consistency among Male Adolescents in the United States
Although seven out of 10 teen males used a condom the first time they had sex, only half used condoms consistently with...
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Household Food Security in the United States, 2007
Children in 323,000 households experienced instances of very low food security in 2007, up from 221,000 in 2006.
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The Evaluation of Enhanced Academic Instruction in After-School Programs: Findings After the First Year of Implementation
This mid-way evaluation study examines whether two structured, academic-focused after-school programs in reading and math could lead to better academic outcomes for...
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Public Funding for Comprehensive After-School Programs, 1998-2008
NYU scholars calculated how much the city, state and federal governments spent on after-school programs in New York City from 1998 to...
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Evaluation of the Life Skills Training Program, Los Angeles County, California
This Life Skills Training (LST) program evaluation finds "no reason to believe that LST had a significant positive impact on any of...
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America’s Health Starts with Healthy Children: How Do States Compare?
The report is the first to rank states on infant mortality and children's health status based on key social factors.
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Capitalizing on Volunteers’ Skills; Volunteering by Occupation in America
According to this study done in support of A Billion + Change - a national campaign to raise $1 billion worth of...
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Teens, Video Games and Civics
The study debunks the myth of the stereotypical teen gamer as anti-social and unproductive.
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Supporting Research to Improve the Lives of Young People (2007 Annual Report)
In addition to providing the requisite yearly information on its staff, programs and grant making, this annual report offers insight into one...
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Sexuality Research and Social Policy – Volume 5, Number 3
The September issue of the NSRC's journal is devoted entirely to a series of articles that identify major flaws in abstinence-only education,...
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Interim Drug Free Communities (DFC) Program Evaluation Findings Report
This analysis finds that use rates for alcohol, tobacco or marijuana in the past 30 days among ninth- through 12th-grade students within...
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Interpersonal and Physical Dating Violence among Teens
Studies have shown that there are approximately 5.3 million incidents of interpersonal violence each year, resulting in 1,300 deaths among women. This...
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Sexually Assaulted Children: National Estimates and Characteristics
This bulletin uses data from the National Household Survey of Adult Caretakers and the National Household Survey of Youth to provide information...
