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Substance Abuse Treatment Provider Views of ‘Culture’: Implications for Behavioral Health Care in Rural Settings
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation The provision of culturally competent substance abuse and mental health services calls for behavioral health providers...
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Exploring Girls’ Leadership (2007)
Girl Scout Research Institute GSRI’s review analyzes literature from the youth development and youth leadership fields and examines lingering contrasts between youth...
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Meeting the High School Challenge: Making After-School Work for Older Students
Older youths who participate in after-school programs significantly improve their chances for success, but serving them effectively is one of the greatest...
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Fighting Poverty through Incentives and Work Mandates for Young Men
In this policy brief featured in a recent issue of the journal The Future of Children, Brookings senior fellow Ron Haskins examines...
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Pathways to Juvenile Detention Reform: Beyond Detention – System Transformation Through Juvenile Detention Reform
This is the 14th report in the Casey Foundation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) Pathways series on juvenile detention reform. It documents...
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Residential Treatment Programs: Concerns Regarding Abuse and Death in Certain Programs for Troubled Youth
Residential treatment programs operating as wilderness therapy programs, boot camps and academies cite positive outcomes, but there have been numerous allegations regarding...
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Combination Treatment Most Effective in Adolescents with Depression
A clinical trial of 439 adolescents (ages 12 to 17) with major depression has found that a combination of medication and psychotherapy...
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Adolescent Romantic Relationships as Precursors of Healthy Adult Marriages
Policymakers interested in promoting healthy adult marriages need to understand how adolescent romantic relationships – particularly those of low-income youth – function,...
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2007 Montana Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)
Montana says its 2007 YRBS shows a 45 percent drop in reported methametaphine use among high schoolers from 2005 to 2007, from...
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Depression among Adults Employed Full-Time, by Occupational Category
Depression negatively affects U.S. industries through lost productivity, employee absenteeism and low morale. Each year, companies lose an estimated $30 billion to...
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Hitting the MARC: Establishing Foster Care Minimum Adequate Rates for Children
States must raise the rates by which they reimburse foster parents by an average of 36 percent to cover the actual costs...
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Parent Recruitment and Training: A Crucial Neglected Child Welfare Strategy
The foster care financing system’s allocation of federal funds shortchanges children in need of loving, permanent families, according to this new report...
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The Long-Term Effects of After-School Programming on Educational Adjustment and Juvenile Crime: A Study of the LA’s BEST After-School Program
The Afterschool Alliance An evaluation of LA’s BEST – the largest after-school program in Los Angeles – finds that youth who were...
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Lifelong Readers: Driving Civic Engagement
Newspaper Association of America Youth who read newspapers are more likely to volunteer, vote and be engaged in civic activities as adults,...
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The Role of Religious and Social Organizations in the Lives of Disadvantaged Youth
Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government Using the National Survey of Families and Households, this paper examines whether participation in religious and...
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Investing in Children
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...
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Department of Justice Conference Expenditures
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General An audit by the inspector general found that sponsors and planners for 10...
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What Happened to the Insurance Coverage of Children and Adults in 2006?
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation This analysis of new U.S. Census Bureau data on health insurance coverage examines the details behind...
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Human Trafficking of Children in the United States
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools This fact sheet describes the nature and extent of the trafficking of...
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We’ve Got a Gun? Comparing Reports of Adolescents and Their Parents about Household Firearms University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy and Practice
Guns – especially those found in youths’ own homes – are a leading cause among adolescents of injury and death to themselves...
