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Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Should Foster Kids Give DNA Samples?

Daytona Beach (Fla.) News-Journal Investigators routinely take fingerprints and photographs of children being removed from abusive or neglectful parents, but a task...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Army’s High School Recruits Earn Now to Serve Later

The Dallas Morning News The Army’s new Future Soldier Training program is paying high school seniors $1,000 a month from the time...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

500 R.I. Teens Fall Into ‘Gap’ as Adults

The Providence (R.I.) Journal More than 500 17-year-olds are making their way through Rhode Island’s adult justice system because they had the...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Redefining What It Means to Be Black in America

National Public Radio (NPR) Author and NPR senior correspondent Juan Williams says that “one of the most damaging forces tearing at young...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Winning Pays Off for Top Coaches

The Birmingham (Ala.) News This investigative report finds that many of Alabama’s high school football coaches are receiving perks once reserved for...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Many Youths Fearful in Their City

The Boston Globe Violent crime has soared in the Boston neighborhoods of Dorchester, Mattapan and Roxbury in recent years. In 2006, 42...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Tackling Tobacco

While smoking has decreased significantly among youth since the funding of anti-tobacco programs through the Master Settlement Agreement in 1998, data from...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Natasha Cross – Engaging Youth Entrepreneurs for Change

Natasha Cross Founder Engaging Youth Entrepreneurs for Change Baltimore, Md. (443) 768-1604 http://www.eyeforchange.org Age: 24 Salary: $45,000 About EYE for Change: The...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Awards for December 2007

For: Teachers and administrators at alternative schoo Louise Tally, Simon Youth Foundation Teacher of the Year, and Terrie Suica-Reed, Administrator of the...

Opinion

Creativity, Spirituality and Youth Work: Claiming the Territory

Embedded in the pages of the October Youth Today were two pieces that are worth revisiting so that they can be connected....

Opinion

I’m Darth Vader? Steinberg’s Latest Drama

Note: This is a response to a guest column last month by Laurence Steinberg of Temple University, who accused Males of exaggerating...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

How to Retain Youth Workers

The article in November regarding the work force crisis [“This Just In: Good Help is Hard to Find”] raises interesting points about...

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Racial Disparity in Foster Care Admissions

Chapin Hall Center for Children Approximately 37 percent of children in foster care are African-American, despite the fact that African-American children make...

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When Girls Don’t Graduate, We All Fail

National Women’s Law Center Female dropouts earn significantly lower wages than male dropouts, are at greater risk of unemployment and are more...

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Juvenile Court Statistics 2003–2004

National Center for Juvenile Justice The most recent in the Juvenile Court Statistics series, this report describes delinquency cases handled between 1985...

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Getting Juvenile Justice Right in New York: Proven Interventions Will Cut Crime and Save Money

Fight Crime: Invest in Kids – New York According to this report, nearly three-quarters of the 17,500 juveniles held in New York...

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Promotion and Prevention in Mental Health: Strengthening Parenting and Enhancing Child Resilience

U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration This report to Congress promotes the aggressive use of research-based mental health interventions, combined...

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School Mental Health: Role of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration [SAMHSA] and Factors Affecting Service Provision

U.S. Government Accountability Office As of August, slightly more than one-quarter of the interventions listed on SAMHSA’s Registry of Evidence-based Programs and...

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