Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Awards for March 2008
CWLA National Conference Awards For: Individuals who have worked to improve the lives of children and families. By: Child Welfare League of...
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Opinion
Youth Development and the Common Good
Nothing rankles me more than poverty and our American tradition of ignoring it. For kids, poverty is the ultimate risk factor. While...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Superintendents of Learning
Superintendents rock! I’ve never started a column like this before, certainly not one about school administrators – the people with whom youth...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Teens at Work: My First Job
VOX, Atlanta When I turned 15, it seemed like everyone my age had money – except me. On Mondays at school, I...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Teens at Work: Paycheck for a Cause
New Youth Connections, New York I first learned the distinction between a Democrat and a Republican in second grade, when my teacher...
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Advancing Achievement: Findings from an Independent Evaluation of a Major After-School Initiative
Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) Several publications spun off from P/PV’s recent evaluation of Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) – an eight-year,...
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Federal Tax Benefits: Foster, Adoptive Parents and Kinship Caregivers
National Foster Parent Association (NFPA) According to the NFPA, “neither the Internal Revenue Service nor commercial tax manuals offer information on unique...
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A National Service Agenda for the Next Decade
Center for American Progress This report, produced to shore up support for service programs, says they are effectively addressing a new array...
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America’s Youth at 20: School Enrollment, Training, and Employment Transitions Between Ages 19 and 20
U.S. Department of Labor Twenty-year-old females are 20 percent more likely to be enrolled in college than are their male counterparts, says...
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The Collapse of the National Teen Job Market and the Case for an Immediate Youth Jobs Creation Program
Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University Employment rates for 16- to 19-year-olds have been declining or stagnant since 1989, and the...
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Youthful Offender Project
YouthBuild USA This report on YouthBuild’s Youthful Offender Project stresses the need for re-entry programs to prevent recidivism. Part of the U.S....
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Ten Key Findings from Responsible Fatherhood Initiatives
The Urban Institute This report examines the results of five programs initiated from the 1990s through 2000 to help low-income noncustodial fathers...
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Survey Finds Most College Freshmen Satisfied with Close Parental Involvement
Cooperative Institutional Research Program/UCLA The majority of college freshmen answering this survey reported that they had experienced the “right amount” of parental...
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Ethical Approaches to Adolescent Participation in Sexual Health Research
Journal of Adolescent Health Adolescent sexual health research studies educate youth and encourage them to practice safe sex. However, young people’s participation...
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Unnecessary Roughness? School Sports, Peer Networks and Male Adolescent Violence
American Sociological Review High school males in contact sports such as football and wrestling are at heightened risk of participating in serious...
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Black Victims of Violent Crime
Bureau of Justice Statistics Among the findings reported here, based on data gathered by the National Crime Victimization Survey and the FBI’s...
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State of the World’s Children 2008
UNICEF Each day about 26,000 children under age 5, most of whom live in developing regions, die from preventable causes. UNICEF is...
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Engaging Youth … On Their Turf: Creative Approaches to Connecting Youth through Community
Healthy Teen Network This report focuses on the importance of involving at-risk youth in positive activities in order to combat teen pregnancy,...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Picture of Success
Healthy lines: This graphic of the network in Santa Cruz in 2006 shows many agencies, with arrows indicating helpful interactions among them....
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Research
How Risky Are Social Networking Sites?
Internet Solutions for Kids and the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire Available in Pediatrics at http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/121/2/e350...
