The William T. Grant Foundation has awarded grants to four research teams for youth-related projects. The teams selected, listed by the head...
The Atlantic Philanthropies has announced that it will provide $2.3 million to Foundations Inc. for its Center for Afterschool Education. The Moorestown,...
A new study shows that expanded learning time (ELT) programs are increasing across the country, but so far these extensions of the...
Click on the cover to read a PDF version of the entire book online. Why Now? A few years ago, when Scout’s...
In what is being called the most extensive single-state, direct survey of foster youth about their experiences in care, about three-quarters of...
More students were in college and high school and fewer were in nursery school, kindergarten and elementary school in the United States...
From April to July this year, the number of employed 16- to 24-year-old "youth" increased by 1.9 million, to 21 million, according...
More than 5,300 13- to 24-year-olds in the United States contracted HIV/AIDS in 2006, according to the CDC.
The U.S. child poverty rate in 2007 was the highest it has been since 1998, according to the Census Bureau's most recent...
This classification analysis of more than 3 million unique URLs worldwide by web content security vendor Optenet finds a significant increase in...
Children who were abused or neglected in their early years are likely to display behavioral problems such as emotional instability, depression and...
The researchers suggest that college and workplace readiness criteria should be expanded to include things such as healthy behaviors, avoiding risky behaviors,...
In this first study to describe college students' beliefs about the risks of recreational use of prescription painkillers and stimulants, researchers find...
Current illicit drug use among youth ages 12 to 17 is continuing to decline, according to this 2007 survey.
In 2007, the Next Generation Youth Work Coalition launched its Clear Policies for Career Pathways initiative to identify efforts under way across...
Nebraski legislators are considering changing the state’s recently enacted “safe haven” law designed to save newborns after some unexpected results: parents abandoning...
After 14 years leading the Oakland, Calif.-based National Council on Crime and Delinquency, President Barry Krisberg is leaving the organization. “I’m passing...
Indianapolis The second and final full day of sessions at the JDAI conference just wrapped up (the first day is just an...
Indianapolis JJ Today is on the road this week in Indy, where the Annie E. Casey Foundation has allowed us to skulk...
The Council on Accreditation (COA) – an independent organization based in New York – last month released quality standards for after-school programs...