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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...
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Snapshots of America’s Families II
The Urban Institute Between 1997 and 1999, the proportion of U.S. children with highly aggravated (“frustrated and stressed”) parents increased, says the...
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Child Health USA 2000
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) This report shows both good and bad trends in the health status and service...
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Evaluation of Community Schools: An Early Look
Joy DryfoosCoalition for Community Schools Of the 49 community school initiatives that submitted self-evaluations for this study, 36 reported academic gains...
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Are Teens in Low-Income and Welfare Families Working Too Much?
Robert Lerman The Urban Institute This study uses data from the Urban Institute’s National Survey of American Families (NSAF) to see how...
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America’s Child Care Crisis: A Crime Prevention Tragedy
This report synthesizes five new studies of varying size and focus, all showing a strong correlation between quality educational child care and...
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Substance Abuse Treatment in Adult and Juvenile Correctional Facilities: Findings from the Uniform Facility Data Set, 1997 Survey of Correctional Facilities
This report presents the findings from a survey of all adult and juvenile correctional facilities nationwide regarding substance abuse treatment service provided...
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Mentoring School-Age Children: Relationship Development in Community-Based and School-Based Programs
Mentoring helps improve youths’ grades, school attendance and family relationships, and helps prevent alcohol and drug initiation, says this report financed by...
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Teens and Their Parents in the 21st Century: An Examination of Trends in Teen Behavior and the Role of Parental Involvement
This report by a White House advisory body uses statistical evidence to back up intuition: that greater parental involvement reduces a teen’s...
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Reducing the Risk: Connections That Make a Difference in the Lives of Youth
Who has the most emotional stress? Older teens, rural youth, welfare recipients and Native American youth. Who is most at risk for...
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Yearbook 2000: The State of America’s Children
There is one institution that we can depend on being there for our young people, says Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president...
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Safe & Smart: Research and Guidelines for Children’s Use of the Internet
With financial support from Microsoft Corporation and Children’s Television Workshop (creators of “Sesame Street”), and with guidance from the latter, the National...
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Gun Control in the United States: A Comparative Survey of State Firearm Laws
Eighteen U.S. states have no minimum age for possession of rifles and shotguns, says a new report by the Open Society Institute...
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Protection as Prevention: Contraception for Sexually Active Teens
This report bears relatively good tidings about U.S. teen pregnancy: Teen sexual activity, pregnancy and birth rates have all declined since 1990....
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Adolescents in Public Health Insurance Programs: Medicaid and CHIP
Of the 3.7 million American adolescents, ages 13 through 18, who are uninsured, more than 2.3 million are eligible for – but...
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National Job Corps Study: The Short-Term Impacts of Job Corps on Participants’ Employment and Related Outcomes
Job Corps graduates earn higher wages and are less likely to have run-ins with the criminal justice system than eligible nonparticipants, according...
