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...
Center on Education Policy Nearly two-thirds of U.S. school districts report that since the implementation of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) during...
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Asked to analyze the major factors behind the disproportionately high number of African-American children in foster care,...
Center for Social Policy and Research, Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago In the decade since the...
The Commonwealth Fund More than 13 million adults ages 19 to 29 lacked health insurance coverage in 2005, according to this report....
Developmental Psychology, Vol. 43, No. 4 Three psychologists at the University of Missouri-Columbia conducted this study into the effects of co-ruminating, or...
The Task Force on Community Preventive Services For two years beginning in 2004, the task force conducted reviews of 53 published scientific...