Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
I No Longer Feel Worthless
By Tanya L., 14LA Youth, Los Angeles I was born with a physical disability. Three of the fingers on my left...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Teasing Drove Me to Desperation
By AnonymousNew Youth Connections, New York One day in fifth grade, a boy came and sat next to me in the...
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Using Information from Income Tax Forms to Target Medicaid and CHIP Outreach: Preliminary Results of the Maryland Kids First Act
State Health Access Data Assistance Center The state of Maryland has started to use adjusted gross income and various data from...
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The Future of Children: Preventing Child Maltreatment
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University The investigations of the families of 1.86 million U.S. children for...
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Evaluating the Long-term Impacts of AmeriCorps Service on Participants
Pardee Rand Graduate SchoolThe RAND Corp. Since the establishment of AmeriCorps in 1993, more than 500,000 people have served in its...
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Community Schools Improve Graduation Rates
National Association of Secondary School Principals and the Coalition for Community Schools Community schools are effective in increasing high school graduation...
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Lifelines: Linking to Federal Benefits for People Exiting Corrections
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law has released a three-volume report emphasizing the importance...
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Understanding Donors’ Motivations
The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana State University This report concludes that the motivations of donors are highly correlated to level...
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Social Isolation and New Technology
Pew Internet & American Life Project Research findings in 2006 found that the number of core discussion networks had declined and...
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Parents Matter: The Role of Parents in Teens’ Decisions About Sex
Child Trends A new study of the relationship between parental roles and teen decisions on sex revealed that the two are...
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Assessing Bullying: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Program Practitioners
Assessing Bullying: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Program Practitioners and Assessing Peer Conflict Aggressive Behaviors: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Program Practitioners...
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Financial Aid Help Boosts Enrollment
Columnist Dick Mendel Even in the midst of the great recession, tuition at public four-year universities rose 6.5 percent nationwide this year,...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Classroom
Sonu ThakurUNICEFhttp://www.unicef.org 1 minute. Free online video. This winner of UNICEF’s video contest for young people marks the 20th anniversary of...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Building a Bridge: Stories about Connections between Parents and Foster Parents
Edited by Nora McCarthyRise Magazine133 pages. $18.95. Can foster parents and child welfare professionals collaborate with the parents of children in...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Youth Participatory Evaluation: Strategies for Engaging Young People
Kim Sabo FloresJossey-Bass/Wiley181 pages. $45. Most youth workers understand youth participation as young people’s involvement in planning and leading their own...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The American Muslim Teenager’s Handbook
Dilara Hafiz, Yasmine Hafiz, Imran HafizGinee Seo Books/Atheneum/Simon & Schuster168 pages. $11.99 paperback. In her local Phoenix bookstore, Yasmine Hafiz noticed...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Global Youth Justice LLC
http://www.globalyouthjustice.org This is the home page for a group that pushes for the expansion of teen courts, which are juvenile justice programs...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Go To Service Learning
http://www.gotoservicelearning.org K-12 teachers can search for lesson plans focused on service learning and submit lesson plans of their own on this site,...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
American Legacy Foundation
http://www.legacyforhealth.org The American Legacy Foundation has changed its online presence by revamping its website – identifying itself as Legacy: For longer healthier...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
My Impact
http://www.myimpact.org This new website by two Washington, D.C., college students – Chris Golden of American University and Nick Troiano of Georgetown University...
