This is the 14th report in the Casey Foundation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) Pathways series on juvenile detention reform. It documents...
Residential treatment programs operating as wilderness therapy programs, boot camps and academies cite positive outcomes, but there have been numerous allegations regarding...
A clinical trial of 439 adolescents (ages 12 to 17) with major depression has found that a combination of medication and psychotherapy...
Policymakers interested in promoting healthy adult marriages need to understand how adolescent romantic relationships – particularly those of low-income youth – function,...
Montana says its 2007 YRBS shows a 45 percent drop in reported methametaphine use among high schoolers from 2005 to 2007, from...
Depression negatively affects U.S. industries through lost productivity, employee absenteeism and low morale. Each year, companies lose an estimated $30 billion to...
States must raise the rates by which they reimburse foster parents by an average of 36 percent to cover the actual costs...
The foster care financing system’s allocation of federal funds shortchanges children in need of loving, permanent families, according to this new report...
The Afterschool Alliance An evaluation of LA’s BEST – the largest after-school program in Los Angeles – finds that youth who were...
Newspaper Association of America Youth who read newspapers are more likely to volunteer, vote and be engaged in civic activities as adults,...
Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government Using the National Survey of Families and Households, this paper examines whether participation in religious and...
Urban Institute/The New America Foundation/The Partnership for America’s Economic Success Federal investment in children is likely to decline over the next 10...
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General An audit by the inspector general found that sponsors and planners for 10...
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation This analysis of new U.S. Census Bureau data on health insurance coverage examines the details behind...
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools This fact sheet describes the nature and extent of the trafficking of...
Guns – especially those found in youths’ own homes – are a leading cause among adolescents of injury and death to themselves...
The George Washington University Law School/Social Science Research Network Increasing political polarization in the United States is the result of the development...
Georgetown University, Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth The amount spent by the alcohol industry on radio advertising decreased by 38 percent...
U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Illicit drug use among youth ages 12 to 17 is at a five-year low,...
National Collaboration for Youth/Search Institute Youth workers from community-based youth development settings and faith-based settings agree that it is essential that they...