Youth Today
Research
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Research of Note for April 2006
America’s Youth at 18: School Enrollment and Employment Transitions Between Ages 17 and 18 Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor...
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Lessons from a Letdown
When youth-serving programs and their funders make their evaluations transparent, the entire field benefits from the lessons learned – even when...
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Research of Note for March 2006
Feasibility of Screening Adolescents for Suicide Risk in "Real-World" High School Settings PIRE Chapel Hill CenterAbstract available at www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/96/2/282 In September...
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Measuring Effectiveness in the Real World
In a field of research seemingly obsessed with developing, cataloging and replicating evidence-based program models, one study has found a unique...
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Research of Note for February 2006
The Association Between Parent, Family and Peer Religiosity and Teenagers’ Sexual Experience and Contraceptive Use Child Trends/The National Campaign to Prevent...
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Research of December 2005-January 2006
Analysis of Predictors of Participation in Out-of-School Time Activities Harvard Family Research Project/Harvard UniversityAvailable at www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/ost_findings.html. Ask teens why they’re not doing...
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Research of Note of November 2005
Foster Children May Be Paying A Price For Attorneys’ Overwhelming Student Loan DebtChildren’s Law Center of Los Angeles (CLC) and the Pew...
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Research of Note from October 2005
Declines in Youth Drug Use Don’t Tell the Full Story The 2004 National Survey on Drug Use and HealthU.S. Substance Abuse and...
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Research of Note for September 2005
Old Myth: The Rise in Girls’ Violence An Assessment of Recent Trends in Girls’ Violence Using Diverse Longitudinal Sources: Is the Gender...
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Getting Evaluated – and Noticed
It’s a common and much complained-about paradox: How can nonprofit youth-serving agencies pay for the rigorous evaluations that funders require, when no...
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Research of Note of July 2005
Firearm Violence Exposure and Serious Violent Behavior University of Michigan/Science magazineAbstract available free at www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/308/5726/1239a, or contact American Association for the Advancement...
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A Tale of Two Studies
The recently released final report on Mathematica’s study of after-school programs (“When Schools Stay Open Late: The National Evaluation of the 21st...
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Research of Note from June 2005
Violence Among Rural Youth Violence and Rural Teens: Teen Violence, Drug Use, and School-Based Prevention Services in Rural AmericaRural Health Research Center,...
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Research of Note from May 2005
Growth of Youth-Serving Organizations The Bridgespan Group Available free online at www.bridgespangroup.org/growthstudy. “What happens when a youth-serving organization attempts to grow larger...
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Research of Note for April 2005
Foster Care Runaways Youth Who Run Away from Substitute Care Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago vailable free online at...
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Research of Note for March 2005
Immigrant Kids, Married Parents and Poverty The Health and Well-Being of Young Children of Immigrants The Urban Institute Available free at www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=311139 ...
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Research of Note for February 2005
The percentage of American eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders who reported using illicit drugs in the previous 12 months continued a gradual decline...
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Research of Note for December 2004-January 2005
Preventing Violence and Related Health-Risking Social Behaviors in Adolescents National Institutes of Health State-of-the-Science Conference Statement Available free at http://consensus.nih.gov/ta/023/023youthviolenceHTMLstatement.htm. “Scare tactics”...
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Research of Note for November 2004
Are the ‘Best’ Drug Treatment Programs Effective? Quality of Highly Regarded Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment ProgramsRosalind Brannigan, M.P.H.; Bruce Schakman, Ph.D.; Mathea...
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Research of Note for October 2004
Girls and Aches, Pains and Fatigue Headache, Stomachache, Backache, and Morning Fatigue Among Adolescent Girls in the United StatesReem Ghandour, M.P.A.; Mary...
