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JPI to States: Ignore Adam Walsh Act

JJ Today reported over the summer about some serious implications of states coming into compliance with the Adam Walsh Act, which was...

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There are well-known criteria that often go into the decision to keep a juvenile in a detention center or commitment facility. Two...

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Strategies for Success: A Plan to Align Out-of-School Time Initiatives with High School Reform

The report recommends ways New York City after-school programs for teens can be improved, and stresses the importance of collaboration between high...

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Growing Bigger Better: Lessons from Experience Corps’ Expansion in Five Cities

Improving the literacy skills of low-income elementary students.

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Effective Practices for Engaging At-Risk Youth in Service

Population of "at-risk" youth expected to rise by 2015.

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One Dream, Two Realities: Perspectives of Parents on America’s High Schools

Only 15 percent of parents of students at low-performing schools are satisfied with their children's education, as opposed to 58 percent of...

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Three Independent Evaluations of Healthy Kids Programs Find Dramatic Gains in Well-Being of Children and Families

About 90 percent of the 60,000 children enrolled in Healthy Kids in those counties receive regular medical care in the form of...

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Charting the Way to Delinquency Prevention for Girls

Despite a rise in female juvenile arrests, violence among female youth has not increased.

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2008 “Teens and Entrepreneurship” Poll

Junior Achievement Teens are less interested in starting their own businesses than they were a year ago.

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Does Watching Sex on Television Predict Teen Pregnancy? Findings from a National Longitudinal Survey of Youth

Teens who watch a lot of sexual content on television are more likely to get pregnant or to get their partners pregnant.

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Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Initiative: Further Progress is Needed in Developing a Risk-Based Monitoring Approach to Help HHS Improve Program Oversight

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is not effectively ensuring that its grantees meet performance goals regarding the provision of...

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What Works in Programs Serving Fathers Involved in the Criminal Justice System: Lessons from Evidence-Based Evaluations

The percentage of children with a father in prison increased 58 percent between 1991 and 1999.

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Creating Postsecondary Pathways to Good Jobs for Young High School Dropouts

30 percent of all youth and 50 percent of minority youth leave public schools without diplomas.

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Sexual and Reproductive Health Behaviors among Teen and Young Adult Men: A Descriptive Portrait

Almost two-thirds of sexually experienced males ages 15 through 24 report they did not receive any reproductive health services, as opposed to...

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Condom Use and Consistency among Male Adolescents in the United States

Although seven out of 10 teen males used a condom the first time they had sex, only half used condoms consistently with...

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Household Food Security in the United States, 2007

Children in 323,000 households experienced instances of very low food security in 2007, up from 221,000 in 2006.

Feedback on DMC, JJ Reform Stories

We received several letters about a package on juvenile justice reform that appeared in our print edition (“A Tale of Two Reforms,”...

Weekly Notes-Nov. 21

***The National Council in Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) released this report, which analyzes the federal gang bills introduced by Sen. Dianne Feinstein...

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The State of our Union in Crisis: Widening the Lens of Children and Families

LaMarche This keynote was given by LaMarche at Atlantic’s Annual Conference of Grantmakers for Children Youth and Families, Chicago, Ill., October 15,...