Youth Today

Reflections on the Crime Decline: Lessons for the Future?

Researchers say that the declines in violent crime and homicides since the early 1970s have bottomed out in the waning economy, and...

3rd Annual Uhlich Children’s Home Teen Gun Survey

Whites and Hispanics among the 1,026 teens in this survey were quickest to attribute gun violence to parental behavior and violent entertainment,...

What Keeps Children in Foster Care from Succeeding in School?

The report lays out the significantly low academic achievement level of the average foster child and finds that academic performance is often...

Public High School Dropouts and Completers

The report reviews high school dropout rates and the percentage of students who complete high school in four years for 37 states.

Juvenile Gun Courts: Promoting Accountability and Providing Treatment

The Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grants Program bulletin provides plans for a juvenile gun court for handling nonviolent crimes committed by youths...

Multiple Choices After School: Findings from the Extended-Service Schools Initiative

The research in this report, conducted by Public/Private Ventures and the Manpower Demonstration Research Corp., examines Extended-Service Schools (EES), school-based programs that...

Arts Programs for Juvenile Offenders in Detention and Corrections: A Guide to Promising Practices

This report details the strengths and weaknesses of six juvenile offender arts outreach programs that were part of joint efforts by the...

Teenagers At Greatest Risk For Crime Victimization

This data-filled report shows that teenagers are twice as likely as any other age group to be victims of violent crime.

BEST Strengthens Youth Worker Practice

This report details the implementation of the BEST Initiative, launched in 1996 to help local communities establish comprehensive youth development programs.

Opening Doors: Students’ Perspectives on Juggling Work, Family and College

Continuing education at a community college has the potential to dramatically increase a student’s marketable skills, yet few students complete these additional...

Getting Out the Youth Vote in Local Elections: Results from Six Door-to-Door Canvassing Experiments

According to this report, young voters are more susceptible to personal contact through canvassing than are older voters. Researchers studied the efficacy...

Youth & Violence: Students Speak Out for a More Civil Society

This report culminates three years of research based on asking youth to help solve youth violence issues. Among the varied responses were...

Helping Teens Develop Healthy Social Skills and Relationships: What the Research Shows about Navigating Adolescence

This report critically examines the importance of building and maintaining strong social skills through relationships during the teenage years.

Media Literacy: An Alternative to Censorship

This analysis champions the notion that the most constructive way for youth to make selective and informed decisions about the media is...

In This Generation: Sexual & Reproductive Health Policies for a Youthful World

This report uses input from global sexual and reproductive health programs to create approaches for promoting positive youth decision-making on sexual matters.

When It’s Your Own Child: Some Surprising Views from Parents about Special Ed

This report highlights the responses of a national random sampling of parents with special-needs children and is timely in light of the...

How Welfare and Work Policies for Parents Affect Adolescents

This report uses data collected in studies of parents involved in 16 welfare and employment programs to demonstrate some shortcomings of the...

Tobacco Industry Youth Smoking Prevention Programs: Protecting the Industry and Hurting Tobacco Control

Examinations of tobacco documents show that the aim of youth initiatives by tobacco companies is self-serving and potentially detrimental to smoking prevention...