Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Ryan Plantz
Ryan Plantz Eagle Rock School and Professional Development Center/Public Allies Estes Park, Colo.(970) 586-0600 http://www.eaglerockschool.org Age: 25. Salary: Stipend of about...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Awards for March 2010
Corps Foundation Annual Awards Alejandro Lopez William Brandt By: The Corps Foundation Contact: Sarah Stankorb (202) 737-6272, sstankorb@corpsnetwork.org, http://www.corpsnetwork.org. Syd Howe Lifetime...
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Opinion
They Won’t Stay Outside Forever: Black Young Men and Unemployment
On Saturday, Jan. 30, Washington, D.C., got its second snowstorm in six weeks. Not nearly as big as the first (only...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Time to Pay for Hazardous Youth Work
William Harvey Jr., a youth outreach worker for the city of Boston, was recently honored by the city and his union....
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
We Deserve Better Sex Ed
By Meklit Gebre-Mariam, 16L.A. YOUTH, LOS ANGELES I took health class two years ago in the summer and I’m not sure...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The “Talk”: Are Schools Doing It Right?
By Anonymous, 17 NEW YOUTH CONNECTIONS, NEW YORK Have your parents ever tried to give you “the talk”? My dad tried...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Targeting All Parents
Nearly 15 years ago, first lady Hillary Clinton popularized the old African proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child.”...
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A Look Back at the Adoption and Safe Families Act
Urban Institute & Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) This series of articles reflect the effects and aftermath of...
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What Are the Important Differences Among Kinship Foster Families?
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago This study looked at family structure and household composition of families providing kinship care,...
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Diploma Attainment Among Teen Mothers
Child Trends This Child Trends report, based on recently released data from a national survey, addresses whether teen mothers go on...
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Expanding Access and Opportunity: The Impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program
Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) The Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS) program, established in 1999 by the Bill & Melinda Gates...
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College- and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
Education Sector This report focuses on a new way of determining which high schools are turning out the students best prepared...
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Conceptualizing Juvenile Prostitution as Child Maltreatment: Findings from the National Juvenile Prostitution Study
University of New Hampshire, Sage Publications While juveniles involved in prostitution were previously viewed as adolescent runaways and “street youth” engaging...
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If Parents Don’t Speak English Well, Will Their Kids Get Locked Up?
Vera Institute of Justice Youth in the juvenile justice system with limited-English-proficient (LEP) parents have a higher chance of being prosecuted and...
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Facing Our Future: Children in the Aftermath of Immigration Enforcement
Urban Institute While millions of illegal immigrants continue to be a focus of attention and debate in the United States, the...
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Efficacy of a Theory-Based Abstinence-Only Intervention Over 24 Months: A Randomized Controlled Trial With Young Adolescents
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine This new federally funded study released last month provides the first clear evidence that abstinence-only...
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The Foreclosure Generation: The Long-Term Impact of the Housing Crisis on Latino Children and Families
National Council of La Raza & Center for Community Capital at the University of North Carolina (UNC) This report examines the...
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Kids Count Data Center
Annie E. Casey Foundation This state-by-state database tracking the health and well-being of U.S. children and their families has been updated...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
What One YO Achieved, and How It (Sort of) Continues
Not long after Phoenix Youth and Family Services in the Arkansas Delta started providing services to young people under the Youth...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Shout It Out: The Voices Project Movie
Bess O’BrienKingdom County Productions90 minutes. DVD, two study guides, one CD soundtrack: $150. Based on interviews with a thousand Vermont teenagers...
