Boston College Law School Faculty Papers Partly due to the number of student free speech cases involving digital media, courts are struggling...
Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute Noting the significantly higher risk of medical and psychological issues for children adopted from the child welfare...
Children’s Hospital Boston Prenatal exposure to drugs, alcohol and tobacco continues to affect the brain into early adolescence, say researchers who used...
Every Child Matters Education Fund The well-being of children in different states can vary greatly, finds this report, which ranks states on...
Harvard Family Research Project Research tells us that participation in after-school programs improves academics, school attendance rates, punctuality, grades and scores on...
Child Trends The common perception that today’s youth are suffering due to unbearably busy schedules is a myth, this brief reports. The...
Rand Corporation The most beneficial after-school programs cost the most, writes Rand education researcher Megan Beckett. While most of the past evaluations...
National Association of Counties (NACo) While many local governments are putting more resources toward addressing the issue of youth aging out of...
White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives In lieu of an actual evaluation, this self-analysis paints a portrait – complete with...
Carnegie UK Trust From 1997 to 2007, the Trust’s Carnegie Young People Initiative in London researched and worked to combat “a world...
University of New Hampshire The media-created perception that sex offenders use trickery and physical force to molest children they meet online is...
Child Trends For youth, having fewer sexual relationships correlates with more frequent use of contraception, find researchers who surveyed 4,556 unmarried, sexually...
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine More 8- to 17-year-olds die in automobile accidents than from any other cause, and more die...
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network Click to see a larger chart. There are more than 7 million lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender...
Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) Several publications spun off from P/PV’s recent evaluation of Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) – an eight-year,...
National Foster Parent Association (NFPA) According to the NFPA, “neither the Internal Revenue Service nor commercial tax manuals offer information on unique...
Center for American Progress This report, produced to shore up support for service programs, says they are effectively addressing a new array...
U.S. Department of Labor Twenty-year-old females are 20 percent more likely to be enrolled in college than are their male counterparts, says...
Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University Employment rates for 16- to 19-year-olds have been declining or stagnant since 1989, and the...
YouthBuild USA This report on YouthBuild’s Youthful Offender Project stresses the need for re-entry programs to prevent recidivism. Part of the U.S....