Youth Today
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After-School Programs and Academics: Implications for Policy, Practice, and Research
Should after-school programs focus on academics, even to the point of becoming an extension of the regular school day? That’s the question...
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Social Citizens
The CASE Foundation Between 1989 and 2005 teenage volunteerism more than doubled, and now members of the Millennial Generation are using new...
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Schools that Work
Center for an Urban Future Most people believe that attending a normal high school is the only way to get to college,...
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Tobacco Settlement Revenue – Recent State Actions and Opportunities for Youth Programs
The Finance Project To pursue tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) funds as a potential financing source for youth programs, it is necessary...
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Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance – United States, 2007
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Today’s high school students are significantly less likely to engage in various risky health...
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Community Collaboratives Addressing Youth Gangs: Interim Findings from the Gang Reduction Program
Preliminary evaluations of the Gang Reduction Program (GRP) – a $10 million, multi-year federal initiative to reduce gang crime in Los Angeles,...
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Unaccompanied Children in the United States
Vera Institute of Justice Each year, thousands of children are separated from their parents after deportation proceedings, but volunteer legal services for...
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Pathways from Family Religiosity to Adolescent Sexual Activity and Contraceptive Use
Teens from religious families wait longer before having sex, due to cohesive family environments and positive peer networks, according to Child Trend’s...
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Abstinence Education: Assessing the Evidence
Almost 7,000 teenagers become sexually active every day, and with that comes an increased risk of sexually transmitted diseases, lower academic achievement...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Evaluations Made Fun and Easy
Rogers: “This is very much directing our programming.” Photo: Sherwood Forest Camp Evaluations don’t have to be rigid and stodgy in order...
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Research
Violence by Teenage Girls: Trends and Context
Girls Study Group/U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency PreventionAvailable at http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/218905.pdf Despite widespread media reports that today’s girls have gone “wild”...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
Ta-Nehisi CoatesSpiegel & Grau/Random House227 pages. $22.95. This brilliant memoir reflects on the challenges faced by two African-American brothers growing up. Ta-Nehisi...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals
Stephanie Brill, Rachel PepperCleis Press252 pages. $16.95. This groundbreaking guide can change our perception of the male/female social order. As co-founder of...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Parrotfish
Ellen WittlingerSimon & Schuster294 pages. $16.99. On the Monday after Thanksgiving of junior year, Angela trades a bra for an Ace bandage...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Real People: Legal But Dangerous: OTC and Rx Drugs
Sunburst Media22 minutes. DVD/VHS packaged together, $129.95. In a roundtable discussion, eleven high school students reveal common practices among peers who abuse...
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Helping Youths Find their Purpose
Bill Damon is a man with a purpose. It is to help overindulged and narcissistic, drifting youth find theirs – thereby ending...
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New Center for Girls in Juvenile System
The Jesse Ball DuPont Fund has awarded $500,000 to the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) of Oakland, Calif., to develop...
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Grants
Grants Awarded for August 2008
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Seattle, Wash.(206) 709-3100http://www.gatesfoundation.org • National Network for Youth, Seattle, $7,489 for general support. • United Way of...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Afterschool Lesson Plan Database
http://www.sedl.org/afterschool/lessonplans More than 100 sample lesson plans for after-school practitioners are available on this site, presented by the National Partnership for Quality...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The National Center for Adoption Law and Policy
http://www.law.capital.edu/adoption The center seeks to improve child protection and adoption policies through education, advocacy and research. It offers a weekly roundup of...
