Youth Today

Interacting Effects of Depression and Tobacco Advertising Receptivity on Adolescent Smoking

This analysis of media receptivity finds that adolescents who suffer from feelings of depression are more likely to be affected by tobacco...

Role Models, Ethnic Identity, and Health Risk Behaviors in Urban Adolescents

A youth's role model often shares his or her gender and/or race, according to this survey conducted in Los Angeles.

Learning In Deed: The Power of Service-Learning for American Schools

At a time when students are increasingly disengaged from academics, they are becoming more involved in volunteer and community service activities, according...

Illicit Drug Policies: Selected Laws from the 50 States

A valuable and convenient reference for anyone involved in drug policy, the data reveal a significant variance of drug abuse policy from...

Technology Applications in the Behavioral Health & Social Service Fields

This report is based on a poll of 5,000 behavioral health and social service industry employees to assess the level of information...

Beyond Access: A Foundation Guide to Ending the Organizational Divide

While foundation grant-making for information technology (IT) continues to grow, strategies for improving the distribution and effectiveness of that money need to...

Are We Protecting Our Children?

In the campaign’s annual report card on laws to protect children from gun violence, 28 states earned grades of “D” or “F.”...

Coverage in Context: How Thoroughly the News Media Report Five Key Children’s Issues

News coverage of children is dominated by quick crime and violence stories with little context, according to the study by the center,...

Youth Worker Indicted

Robert Miraglia, a New Jersey community youth worker at the Essex County Office of Alcoholism, Drug Abuse and Addiction Services, was charged...

Cybercafe Crackdown

The Garden Grove, Calif., city council last month imposed new restrictions on cybercafes, which cater largely to youth and young adults, after...

Addiction Treatment Rises

The number of 12- to 17-year-olds admitted to substance abuse treatment rose 20 percent between 1994 and 1999, according to a report...

Discrimination Settlement

The Adams Mark Hotel chain has agreed to pay a total of $1.1 million to black guests and several black colleges to settle...

Vatican and Molesters

The Vatican has disseminated new rules for secret church-run courts to try priests facing allegations of molesting children. The letter, sent to...

More Church Bad News

A jury last month convicted former Boston-area priest John Geoghan of molesting a 10-year-old boy. More than 130 people have accused Geoghan,...

America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2001

Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics This annual statistical snapshot indicates several encouraging changes in the condition...

Beyond the Two-Parent Family: How Teenagers Fare in Cohabiting Couple and Blended Families

The Urban Institute As the number of unmarried couples with children continues to increase, most teenagers living in cohabiting families are better...

Less Cost, More Safety: Guiding Lights for Reform in Juvenile Justice

Identifying challenges faced by youth workers in juvenile justice programs, the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) recognized programs that achieve “notable successes...

Lessons from the Street and Unequal Protection: Corrupted Democracy

The White House Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives was launched in the hope that “spiritual approaches can succeed where secular...

First Installment of National Strategy for Suicide Prevention Unveiled: Goals and Objectives for Public, Private Sectors

United States Surgeon General Surgeon General David Satcher, flanked by leaders of the public and private suicide prevention community, unveiled his report...

Legacy First Look Report 6: Youth Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke

This report, from the tobacco education foundation created by the national Master Settlement Agreement with the major tobacco companies, says more than...