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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Critical Choices: Making Drug Policy at the State Level Drug Strategies
This report outlines the needs and roles that state governments must play in reducing the demand for drugs through treatment and prevention...
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With One Voice: America’s Adults and Teens Sound Off About Teen Pregnancy, and Halfway There: A Prescription for Continued Progress in Preventing Teen Pregnancy
By Amy Bracken The vast majority of U.S. adults and teens believe that teens should not be sexually active but those who...
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2001 KIDS COUNT Data Book: State Profiles of Child Well-Being
By Amy Bracken In some regards, teens are doing better in almost all of the 50 states and the District of Columbia....
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A National Youth Development Agenda: Public Policy Positions of the National Collaboration for Youth
By Amy Bracken This publication outlines the positions and policy recommendations agreed upon by the D.C.-based National Collaboration’s 39 member organizations. The...
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Justice by Gender: The Lack of Appropriate Prevention, Division and Treatment Alternatives for Girls in the Juvenile Justice System
By Amy Bracken While juvenile crime has been on the decline since 1994, the number of girls in the juvenile justice system...
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Prospecting Among the Poor: Welfare Privatization
By Bill Berkowitz Applied Research Center The California-based Applied Research Center has been one of the most aggressive opponents of welfare reform, saying...
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Zero Tolerance, Zero Evidence: An Analysis of School Disciplinary Practice
By Russell Skiba Indiana Education Policy Center This report explores the effects and side-effects of extreme punishment – usually suspension or expulsion...
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State of the Air 2001
American Lung Association This report gives a failing grade in air quality to communities that are home to 30 million children...
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Untapped Potential: State Earned Income Credits and Child Poverty Reduction
By Amy Bracken This research brief says the federal Earned Income Credit (EIC) lifts 2.5 million children out of poverty, and...
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Less Cost, More Safety: Guiding Lights for Reform in Juvenile Justice
American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) Following up on AYPF’s June 2000 report, “Less Hype, More Help: Reducing Juvenile Crime, What Works –...
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Crossroads: New Directions in Social Policy American Public Human Services Association
“The Bush administration and the 107th Congress are presented with a compelling opportunity,” this report begins, “to eliminate outmoded federal rules and...
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The Sexual Victimization of College Women National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice
This report gives the results of the National College Women Sexual Victimization Survey, conducted by the National Institute of Justice in the...
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Fatherhood and Television: An Evaluation of Fatherhood Portrayals on Prime Time Television
To determine what messages about fatherhood children are likely to find on television, the NFI reviewed every prime time television show on...
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An Investigation of Philadelphia’s Youth Aid Panel: A Community-based Diversion Program for First-time Youthful Offenders
Nina Chernoff and Bernardine Watson Public/Private Ventures This report shows that Philadelphia’s Youth Aid Panel (YAP) initiative, established by the city’s District...
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National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families, State and Community Substudy
This report, prepared by Abt Associates for HHS, finds that because of the strong economy, more parents working and more left-over TANF...
