Youth Today
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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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Mentoring, Policy and Politics
Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) This policy brief by former P/PV President Gary Walker asks, “Is mentoring now a durable part of American social...
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The Parenting Imperative: Investing in Parents So Children and Youth Succeed
The National Human Services Assembly Despite the fact that parents are one of the most important factors in positive child and youth...
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Paying the Price: The Impact of Immigration Raids on America’s Children
The Urban Institute With federal immigration raids on the rise, this report examines what happens to the children of adults who are...
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Repeat Teen Childbearing: Differences Across States and by Race and Ethnicity
Child Trends Although the teen birth rate reached a record low in 2004, nearly 20 percent of teen births that year were...
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Substance Abuse Treatment Provider Views of ‘Culture’: Implications for Behavioral Health Care in Rural Settings
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation The provision of culturally competent substance abuse and mental health services calls for behavioral health providers...
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Exploring Girls’ Leadership (2007)
Girl Scout Research Institute GSRI’s review analyzes literature from the youth development and youth leadership fields and examines lingering contrasts between youth...
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Research
What Does Gay Mean? A Survey of Latino Parents’ Perspectives on Bullying, Sexual Orientation and Prejudice
Mental Health America Executive summary available at http://mentalhealthamerica.net/download.cfm?DownloadFile=AAA548B0-1372-4D20-C827D1B06C3F9730 Despite the fact that 95 percent of Latino parents believe that their teens should...
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Research
More than Homework, a Snack and Basketball: Afterschool Programs as an Oasis of Hope for Black Parents in Four Cities
The Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) Available at http://www.baeo.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/mottSummary.pdf Black parents have a deep understanding of the need for high-quality after-school...
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Opinion
Wexler’s Impact Helps Kids
I had been anxiously awaiting your article on the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform [November], as I have so much admiration...
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Opinion
Wrong Take on Gays in the Scouts
By positioning the Boys Scouts of America’s attitude toward gay scout leaders as a “minority” opinion on “social mores,” and including Jen...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Afterschool Matters: Creative Programs That Connect Youth Development and Student Achievement
Edited by Sara Hill Corwin Press 144 pages. $25.95. Seven experts in programs geared toward struggling children present essays on how to...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Afterschool Advantage
Edited by Terry Peterson and Sybil Fix Center for Afterschool and Community Education 72 pages. Free. This collection of writing by national...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
In Their Parents’ Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees
Rita J. Simon, Rhonda M. Roorda Columbia University Press 240 pages. $24.50. Simon and Roorda interviewed 16 sets of parents who adopted...
