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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...
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New Rules, New Roles: Preparing All Young People for a Changing World
This report profiles six successful programs in career exploration and preparation for young people. Youth and youth-serving institutions today, the report says,...
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Handle With Care: Serving the Mental Health of Young Offenders Coalition for Juvenile Justice 2000 Annual Report
Between 50 percent and 75 percent of incarcerated youth have “diagnosable” mental health disorders, and few juvenile detention facilities are properly equipped...
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Health Coverage for Legal Immigrant Children: New Census Data Highlights Importance of Restoring Medicaid and SCHIP Coverage
Leighton Ku and Shannon Blaney Center on Budget and Policy Priorities To examine changes in immigrants’ health insurance coverage, the report’s authors...
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Report on State Implementation of the Gun-Free Schools Act: School Year 1998-99
U.S. Department of Education “The information contained in this report should be interpreted with caution,” say the authors. In addition to questionable...
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School-Based Surveillance of Violence, Injury, and Disciplinary Actions
Paul Kingery and Aaron Alford Hamilton Fish Institute This report uses surveys of students to cast doubt on the validity of data...
