Youth Today
Research
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Annual Summary of Vital Statistics: 2005
Pediatrics, Vol. 119 No. 2, February 2007, pgs. 345-360 Abstract available at: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/119/2/345 A small media frenzy erupted last month over the...
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A Data Shortage Yields Unplanned Lessons
When the researchers responsible for evaluating the federal Title V Community Prevention Grants Program realized that virtually none of the program’s grantees...
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The Study that Ignited (or Diluted) Mentoring
You’d think an organization that was serving tens of thousands of kids and had become a household name wouldn’t feel “vulnerable.” But...
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Research of Note for December 2006 – January 2007
Child Welfare: Improving Social Service Program, Training and Technical Assistance Information Would Help Address Long-standing Service-Level and Workforce ChallengesU.S. Government Accountability Office...
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Getting It Together for Abused Kids
The number of child advocacy centers (CACs) in the United States today is 12 times as high as it was 12 years...
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Curfews and Crime
As head of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, Dan Macallair has repeatedly given city officials scientific data that juvenile curfews...
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Research of Note for November 2006
Rebuilding Families, Reclaiming Lives: State Obligations to Children in Foster Care and Their Incarcerated Parents The Brennan Center for Justice at New...
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Youth Reseach Debate
Response to Youth Research: Duh! By Mark Redmond The woman who heads our education center here at Spectrum Youth and Family Services...
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Uh-Oh: What to do When a Study Shows Nothing?
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) got some good news last month: Drug use is down for the...
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Research of Note for October 2006
Capturing Promising Practices in Recruitment and Retention of Frontline Youth WorkersCornerstones for Kids/National Collaboration for YouthAvailable free at www.nassembly.org/nydic/documents/CompletePublication.pdf. The Human Services...
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Don’t Deify Graduation Rates
The buzz about improving the high school graduation rate is becoming a roar. Governors’ children’s cabinets are picking this as the leading...
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Anti-Gun Programs: Where’s the Bang?
Recent reports about an alleged surge in youth violence have officials in cities throughout the country looking for ways to clamp down...
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Research of Note for September 2006
The annual National Institute of Justice (NIJ) conference in July convened researchers whose work is funded by the U.S. Department of Justice’s...
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Group Youth Work: Does it Hurt?
To parents and youth workers, a ground-breaking research article published in 1999 simply provided scientific backing for what they see all the...
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Research of Note for July-August 2006
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance — United States, 2005 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)Available online at http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5505a1.htm ...
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Research of Note for June 2006
What Are Kids Getting Into These Days? Demographic Differences in Youth Out-of-School Time Participation Harvard Family Research ProjectAvailable at www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/content/projects/afterschool/resources/demographic.pdf When...
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Everybody Talks about Evidence, but…
Evidence-based practices and programs (EBPs) are all the buzz these days: The phrase seems to be popping up with increasing frequency in...
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The Pitch for High Fidelity
Denver, Colo. — When Robert Barnoski saw the first outcome data from his evaluation of Functional Family Therapy in early 2002, he...
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Research of Note for May 2006
Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National ReportU.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention/National Center for Juvenile JusticeAvailable at http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ojstatbb/nr2006/index.html ...
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Service-Learning: What Have We Learned?
Youth volunteerism is being celebrated around the country in commemoration of National Service Day this month, but Andrew Furco recalls the resistance...
