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A New Low in Official Betrayal

Admit it: Most of us in the youth field owe our jobs to appalling government and institutional dereliction. The abject failure of...

Opinion

Building the Case for Entrepreneur Ed

A group of educators, advocates and donors has been meeting under the auspices of the Youth Entrepreneurship Strategy Group (YESG) to ponder...

Opinion

Federal Child Welfare Test Fails Children

Last year, I had my first experience with the federal Child and Family Services Review (CFSR), which many people in child welfare...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

A Cure for Tedium

Vox, Atlanta Sitting in class one day, scribbling endless notes, I started to daydream. I imagined myself at the park with the...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

The Xerox Complex

Vox, Atlanta “This has to be a crime,” I thought to myself bitterly. “Two inches. … Two inches is the limit, and...

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After School Programs in the 21st Century: Their Potential and What It Takes to Achieve It

Harvard Family Research Project Research tells us that participation in after-school programs improves academics, school attendance rates, punctuality, grades and scores on...

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The Over-Scheduling Myth

Child Trends The common perception that today’s youth are suffering due to unbearably busy schedules is a myth, this brief reports. The...

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Current-Generation Youth Programs: What Works, What Doesn’t and at What Cost?

Rand Corporation The most beneficial after-school programs cost the most, writes Rand education researcher Megan Beckett. While most of the past evaluations...

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Youth Aging Out of Foster Care: Identifying Strategies and Best Practices

National Association of Counties (NACo) While many local governments are putting more resources toward addressing the issue of youth aging out of...

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The President’s Faith-Based and Community Initiative: A Seven-Year Progress Report

White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives In lieu of an actual evaluation, this self-analysis paints a portrait – complete with...

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Empowering Young People

Carnegie UK Trust From 1997 to 2007, the Trust’s Carnegie Young People Initiative in London researched and worked to combat “a world...

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Online “Predators” and Their Victims: Myths, Realities, and Implications for Prevention and Treatment

University of New Hampshire The media-created perception that sex offenders use trickery and physical force to molest children they meet online is...

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The Quality of Teen Relationships Influences Decisions about Contraception

Child Trends For youth, having fewer sexual relationships correlates with more frequent use of contraception, find researchers who surveyed 4,556 unmarried, sexually...

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Risk Factors for Death Among Older Child and Teenaged Motor Vehicle Passengers

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine More 8- to 17-year-olds die in automobile accidents than from any other cause, and more die...

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Home-Grown Success

Wolner: “We’ve had some pretty powerful people that have gotten behind it.” Photo: Barron County Restorative Justice Program Location, location, location. Is...

Research

Voices from the Street: A Survey of Homeless Youth by their Peers

California Research BureauAvailable at http://www.library.ca.gov/crb/08/08-004.pdf Although estimates vary widely, the most recent data provided to Congress suggest that, at any given time,...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

National Certification Exam for Child and Youth Care Workers: Preliminary Results of a Validation Study

Association for Child and Youth Care Practice (ACYCP) Forthcoming in the Journal of Child and Youth Care Work In February, the ACYCP...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Global GraffitiWall

Tamara Sniad, Claudia Weisburd, Joana Davis-DíazCenter for Afterschool Education/Foundations76 pages. $24.95. This partner to GraffitiWall contains international-themed activities that build geography and...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Please Stop Laughing at Us … One Survivor’s Extraordinary Quest to Prevent School Bullying

Jodee BlancoBenBella Books/Independent Publishers Group443 pages. $14.95. In this sequel to Please Stop Laughing at Me, her best-selling memoir about being bullied...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier