Youth Today
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A Good Start: Two-Year Effects of a Freshmen Learning Community Program at Kingsborough Community College
MDRC/Network on Transitions to Adulthood While freshmen in college benefit from extra counseling, financial aid and tutoring, the benefits last only slightly...
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Low Grades, Bad Behavior? Siblings May Be to Blame
Florida State University Living with half or stepsiblings can result in more school-related behavioral problems for youth, according to sociology professor Kathryn...
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State Secrecy and Child Deaths in the U.S.
Children’s Advocacy Institute/First Star Only two states, Nevada and New Hampshire, received a grade of A in this report rating the child...
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State Policies Affecting the Assurance of Confidential Care for Adolescents
Incenter Strategies Minor youth often feel the need to know that the information they share with healthcare providers is confidential, even in...
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Constraints on Minority Swimming Participation
USA Swimming Foundation Nearly 60 percent of African-American and Hispanic youth ages 6 to 16 are unable to swim – nearly twice...
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Lesbian and Gay Youths’ Aspirations for Marriage and Raising Children
Rockway Institute In what is believed to be the first study of its kind, researchers have found that many lesbian and gay...
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A Forty-Year Update of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders: Preliminary Findings
The Eisenhower Foundation From 1968 to 2006, the child poverty rate rose from 15 percent to 17 percent, four times the rate...
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The Impact of the Mortgage Crisis on Children
First Focus Two million children’s families will lose their homes to foreclosures in 2008 and 2009, estimates First Focus – an event...
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Residential Facilities: Improved Data and Enhanced Oversight Would Help Safeguard the Well-Being of Youth with Behavioral and Emotional Challenges
The number of state-reported fatalities of youth in residential facilities, by agency and facility type. U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Federal investigations...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Study Sings Praises of Youth Theater
Sperling: “The University of Michigan is saying this! I’m not crazy!” Photo: Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit While the growing demand to...
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Research
Can AFCARS be Rescued?
Children and Family Research Center/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Available at http://cfrcwww.social.uiuc.edu/pubs/Pdf.files/CAN_AFCARS_BE_RESCUED_final.pdf. The way states submit data to the federal Adoption and...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Fostering Hope: Restoring Shattered Lives
Produced by Ralph CunninghamVista Film & VideoDVD, 57:50 minutes. $19.95. With the highest rate of foster care cases in Oregon, Marion County...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Youth to Power: How Today’s Young Voters are Building Tomorrow’s Progressive Majority
Michael ConneryIg Publishing203 pages. $14.95. As the 2008 presidential election looms, political activist Connery strives to dispel the myth that young voters...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Character Chronicles
Live Wire Media 6 DVDs or Videos, 25 minutes each, with facilitator’s guide. $69.95 each, $359.50 full series. Based on the “Six...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Great Group Games: 175 Boredom-Busting, Zero-Prep Team Builders for All Ages
Susan Ragsdale, Ann SaylorSearch Institute Press225 pages. $16.95. This rich, well-organized collection of games for groups of all kinds (ages 12 and...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
American Grants and Loans Directory
Canada Books400 pages. $149.95, CD $69.95. This 2008 Canadian publication covers more than 1,500 U.S. government financial programs, subsidies, scholarships, grants and...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Letter 2 a Teen: Becoming the Best I Can Be
Robin CoxSelf-Published60 pages. $23. This appealing workbook serves as pep talk, mentor and diary, offering teens a tool for life planning. Drawings,...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Crystal Fear, Crystal Clear
Eva WundermanSpeed Productions/Fanlight Productions45 minutes. VHS $199; DVD $229. Rentals available. Wunderman’s documentary follows the lives of three young methamphetamine users and...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Boot Camp
Residential CARETodd StrasserSimon & Schuster238 pages. $15.99. Talk about fiction ripped from the news pages: Fifteen-year-old Garrett can’t believe that his parents...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
OMB Watch’s Regulatory Resource Center
http://www.ombwatch.org/regs The U.S. Office of Management and Budget Watch recently launched this new sub-site to help citizens get involved in federal regulatory...
