Youth Today
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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...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
TeenGrowth
http://www.teengrowth.com This site offers youth a secure environment in which to search for, request and receive health care information on alcohol, drugs,...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Campaign for Youth Justice
http://www.youtube.com/jjreform The Campaign for Youth Justice, which fights the incarceration of youth in adult prisons, has launched its own channel on YouTube....
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Cultivating Readers
http://www.famlit.org/site/c.gtJWJdMQIsE/b.3485129 This online magazine from the National Center for Family Literacy gives parents and youth workers strategies to promote reading and make...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Family Guide
http://family.samhsa.gov The U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration produces this website for parents, focusing on mental health and the abuse...
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Research
2008 KIDS COUNT Databook
Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF)Available at http://www.kidscount.org/datacenter/databook.jsp The 19th KIDS COUNT Data Book continues the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s annual state-by-state tracking...
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► Reports
Exploring Associations between Nonresident Father Involvement and Child Welfare Case Outcomes
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) The study investigates whether the involvement of a nonresidentfather affects permanency outcomes for children...
