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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...

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My First Paycheck

http://www.myfirstpaycheck.com Created by a 16-year-old high school sophomore and her brother, this job-posting site offers employment advice, an interactive tool that builds...

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Child Welfare Information Gateway

http://www.childwelfare.gov This federal government service, which provides information and resources to help protect children and families, recently made its website more user-friendly....

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Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity

http://www.spotlightonpoverty.org Launched last fall by several foundations, including the Annie E. Casey and Eos foundations, this site addresses poverty issues in the...

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Classroom Inc.

http://www.classroominc.org Seeks to improve the academic skills of middle school and high school students with computer simulations that place them in managerial...

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YouthLink Online

http://www.hispaniclink.org/youthlink/about.htm This site, hosted by the Hispanic Link Journalism Foundation, publishes articles, poems, personal stories, plays and art work of English- and...

Grants

Grants Awarded for June 2008

Ford FoundationNew York(212) 573-5000www.fordfound.org • Bank Street College of Education, New York, $100,000 to develop curricula and assessments for issues including critical...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

More SSI Money for Disabled Youth

A new federal regulation should make it easier to get more money for families trying to secure Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Make College Pay for Youth Workers

In response to the cover story in February [“Local Schools Give Youth Workers More Class”]: You noted that youth workers who enroll...

Opinion

After-School Data Old, Discredited

Your readers would have been well-served if your brief article on the RAND Corp.’s recent paper on afterschool programs (“Current-Generation Youth Programs:...

Opinion