Youth Today

Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2007

National Center for Education Statistics The vast majority of the 54.8 million students enrolled in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade during the 2005-2006...

Family Values at Work

MultiState Working Families Consortium This report argues for a change in government standards to better promote a family-friendly work environment, particularly in...

Predictors of Sexual Risk Behaviors among Newly Homeless Youth

UCLA AIDS Institute Newly homeless youth are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior if they stay in non-family settings –...

The Effect of Sexual Abstinence on Educational Attainment

University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center Teaching abstinence in schools has sometimes been justified on the grounds that abstaining...

Collecting Data from Children Ages 9-13

Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, The Preteen Alliance Researchers who perused literature and studies about the best methods for obtaining information...

Safety in Numbers

Racial Disparity in Foster Care Admissions

Chapin Hall Center for Children Approximately 37 percent of children in foster care are African-American, despite the fact that African-American children make...

When Girls Don’t Graduate, We All Fail

National Women’s Law Center Female dropouts earn significantly lower wages than male dropouts, are at greater risk of unemployment and are more...

Juvenile Court Statistics 2003–2004

National Center for Juvenile Justice The most recent in the Juvenile Court Statistics series, this report describes delinquency cases handled between 1985...

Getting Juvenile Justice Right in New York: Proven Interventions Will Cut Crime and Save Money

Fight Crime: Invest in Kids – New York According to this report, nearly three-quarters of the 17,500 juveniles held in New York...

Promotion and Prevention in Mental Health: Strengthening Parenting and Enhancing Child Resilience

U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration This report to Congress promotes the aggressive use of research-based mental health interventions, combined...

School Mental Health: Role of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration [SAMHSA] and Factors Affecting Service Provision

U.S. Government Accountability Office As of August, slightly more than one-quarter of the interventions listed on SAMHSA’s Registry of Evidence-based Programs and...

Mentoring, Policy and Politics

Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) This policy brief by former P/PV President Gary Walker asks, “Is mentoring now a durable part of American social...

The Parenting Imperative: Investing in Parents So Children and Youth Succeed

The National Human Services Assembly Despite the fact that parents are one of the most important factors in positive child and youth...

Paying the Price: The Impact of Immigration Raids on America’s Children

The Urban Institute With federal immigration raids on the rise, this report examines what happens to the children of adults who are...

Repeat Teen Childbearing: Differences Across States and by Race and Ethnicity

Child Trends Although the teen birth rate reached a record low in 2004, nearly 20 percent of teen births that year were...

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...

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...

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...