Youth Today
Research
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Grant Helps Feds Use Evidence about Programs
In a “top-down” effort to improve the quality and use of scientific evidence in policy areas that affect youth, the W.T. Grant...
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The Power of Babble
“All evidence suggests that narcissism is more common in recent generations,” San Diego State University psychologist Jean Twenge declares in her popular,...
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Collecting Data from Children Ages 9-13
Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, The Preteen Alliance Researchers who perused literature and studies about the best methods for obtaining information...
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New Evidence on the Monetary Value of Saving a High-Risk Youth
Vanderbilt University – Owen Graduate School of Management and City University of New York – John Jay College of Criminal JusticeAvailable at...
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An Analysis of Racial/Ethnic Disproportionality and Disparity at the National, State, and County Levels
WestatPublished by the Casey-CSSP Alliance for Racial Equity in Child WelfareAvailable at www.casey.org/Resources/Publications. This report makes several important new contributions to the...
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Social Programs That Work
www.evidencebasedprograms.org Here the scientists who make up the nonprofit Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy summarize the findings of well-designed randomized control trials that...
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What Does Gay Mean? A Survey of Latino Parents’ Perspectives on Bullying, Sexual Orientation and Prejudice
Mental Health America Executive summary available at http://mentalhealthamerica.net/download.cfm?DownloadFile=AAA548B0-1372-4D20-C827D1B06C3F9730 Despite the fact that 95 percent of Latino parents believe that their teens should...
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More than Homework, a Snack and Basketball: Afterschool Programs as an Oasis of Hope for Black Parents in Four Cities
The Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) Available at http://www.baeo.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/mottSummary.pdf Black parents have a deep understanding of the need for high-quality after-school...
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Suicide Trends Among Youths and Young Adults 10-24 Years – United States, 1990-2004
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5635a2.htm The CDC rang lots of alarms last month in reporting that suicides by youth...
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Gang Wars: The Failure of Enforcement Tactics and the Need for Effective Public Safety Strategies
Justice Policy Institute www.justicepolicy.org/reports_jl/7-10-07_gangs/GangsFullReport2.pdf When it comes to reducing gang-related crime and preventing youth from taking part, social programs that offer jobs,...
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2007 Kids Count Data Book
Annie E. Casey Foundation www.kidscount.org/sld/databook.jsp The release of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s annual Kids Count Data Book in late July again...
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Assessment of Self-Injurious Thoughts Using a Behavioral Test?
American Journal of Psychiatry/Harvard University Abstract at http://www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/164/5/820. Mindful of the fact that youth who intentionally injure themselves are often unable or...
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Adolescent First Sex and Subsequent Mental Health
American Journal of Sociology/University of Minnesota Available at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?AJS090213PDF. The 1996 Welfare Reform Act and its reauthorization in 2002 provided for federal...
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Depression and the Initiation of Alcohol and Other Drug Use among Youths Aged 12 to 17
U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Available at http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k7/newUserDepression/newUserDepression.cfm. It’s one of the “chicken or egg” paradoxes of youth...
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Quality Time After School: What Instructors Can Do to Enhance Learning
Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) Available at http://www.ppv.org/ppv/publications/assets/213_publication.pdf. Youth workers may be scrambling to keep up with the avalanche of recent research on the...
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Household Firearm Ownership and Rates of Suicide Across the 50 United States
The Journal of Trauma, Vol. 62, Issue 4, April 2007 Abstract available at http://www.jtrauma.com/pt/re/jtrauma/abstract.00005373-200704000-00031.htm. For some people, the conclusion reached by this...
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Come and Get It: Free Evaluations
RICHMAN: “We as academics are quick to say, ‘You should do this,’ when we don’t understand” what nonprofits are “up against.” What...
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Participation in Youth Programs as a Catalyst for Negotiation of Family Autonomy with Connection
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Available at http://web.aces.uiuc.edu/youthdev/Documents/LarsonPearceSullivanJarrett2006.pdf For decades, researchers believed that conflict was a necessary ingredient for teens to establish...
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Attitudes of U.S. Voters Toward Youth Crime and the Justice System
National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD)Available at www.nccd-crc.org/nccd/pubs/zogby_feb07.pdf A little over a decade ago, nearly every state began responding to rising...
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth: An Epidemic of Homelessness
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute and the National Coalition for the Homeless Available at: http://www.thetaskforce.org/reports_and_research/homeless_youth It’s a statistic that...
