Youth Today
Research
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Do-it-Yourself Data
Bottom Line A nonprofit service agency creates an ongoing evaluation system that is operated in-house, and uses the data to improve...
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A Guide to Effective Investments in Positive Youth Development: Implications of Research for Financing and Sustaining Programs and Services for Youth
The Finance Project This paper reviews some of the most recent research on what makes an effective youth development program, and seeks...
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Teen Births Rise Again – What Does it Mean?
The federal government’s vital statistics records show a second year of increase in the birth rate among U.S. teens from 2006 to...
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Successful Transition to Adolescence Begins at Home
Program: Strong African American Families (SAAF) Organization: Center for Family Research, University of Georgia Type of Evaluation: Researchers examined whether this intervention,...
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Supporting Research to Improve the Lives of Young People (2007 Annual Report)
In addition to providing the requisite yearly information on its staff, programs and grant making, this annual report offers insight into one...
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Feedback: Letters, E-mails and Web Postings
Career Ladder Opportunities Thanks for the article on Hector Fabio Urrea in September (“Climbing Career Ladders”). There are numerous ways that...
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Campie Named Director of NCJJ
Patricia Campie is the new director at the Pittsburgh-based National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ), a division of the National Council of...
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Evaluations Made Fun and Easy
Rogers: “This is very much directing our programming.” Photo: Sherwood Forest Camp Evaluations don’t have to be rigid and stodgy in order...
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Violence by Teenage Girls: Trends and Context
Girls Study Group/U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency PreventionAvailable at http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/218905.pdf Despite widespread media reports that today’s girls have gone “wild”...
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2008 KIDS COUNT Databook
Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF)Available at http://www.kidscount.org/datacenter/databook.jsp The 19th KIDS COUNT Data Book continues the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s annual state-by-state tracking...
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Study Sings Praises of Youth Theater
Sperling: “The University of Michigan is saying this! I’m not crazy!” Photo: Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit While the growing demand to...
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Can AFCARS be Rescued?
Children and Family Research Center/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Available at http://cfrcwww.social.uiuc.edu/pubs/Pdf.files/CAN_AFCARS_BE_RESCUED_final.pdf. The way states submit data to the federal Adoption and...
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Coming of Age: Employment Outcomes for Youth Who Age Out of Foster Care Through Their Middle Twenties
Urban InstituteAvailable at http://www.urban.org/publications/1001174.html. Studies of former foster youth who age out care find that they generally experience high unemployment, unstable employment...
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Abstinence-Only and Comprehensive Sex Education and the Initiation of Sexual Activity and Teen Pregnancy
University of Washington, Seattle Available at http://www.planetwire.org/files.fcgi/7689_Ab_Only_Ed_Kohler_.pdf Yet another study has confirmed that abstinence-only programs have a minimal effect on risky sexual...
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Youth in Foster Care With Adult Mentors During Adolescence Have Improved Adult Outcomes
University of Washington, Seattle/University of Illinois, Chicago Available at http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/121/2/e246 Despite this study’s title, its researchers make a clear distinction between adult...
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Voices from the Street: A Survey of Homeless Youth by their Peers
California Research BureauAvailable at http://www.library.ca.gov/crb/08/08-004.pdf Although estimates vary widely, the most recent data provided to Congress suggest that, at any given time,...
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National Certification Exam for Child and Youth Care Workers: Preliminary Results of a Validation Study
Association for Child and Youth Care Practice (ACYCP) Forthcoming in the Journal of Child and Youth Care Work In February, the ACYCP...
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Ethical Approaches to Adolescent Participation in Sexual Health Research
Journal of Adolescent Health Adolescent sexual health research studies educate youth and encourage them to practice safe sex. However, young people’s participation...
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How Risky Are Social Networking Sites?
Internet Solutions for Kids and the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire Available in Pediatrics at http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/121/2/e350...
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Teens Who Work Are More Likely to Smoke
RAND Available at http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/2008/RAND_RB9321.pdf Public health campaigns to reduce teen smoking have shown positive results in recent years, particularly those that are...
