Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Web Watch for November 2007
Child Welfare Adoption Learning Partnerswww.adoptionlearningpartners.org/courses/overview.cfmTwo new online courses at this site aim to educate prospective adoptive parents about a variety of...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Well-Being of Measuring Well-Being
Since the social indicators movement began in the 1970s, there has been explosive growth in efforts to measure the quality of people’s...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Pubs and Videos for November 2007
AFTER SCHOOL Afterschool Style in Practice:25 Skill-Building Meetings for StaffTamara Sniad, Claudia Weisburd, Sarah MelloCenter for Afterschool and Community Education/Foundations Inc.182 pages....
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Flood of Federal Grants Released
Amy Nakamoto, executive director of DC Scores – an after-school program in Washington – figured there was "no way" she’d win a...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Grants Awarded for November 2007
Following are selected federal grantees from lists released at the end of the fiscal year. More will be add to our site...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
YouthBuild Grants Up, Slightly
YouthBuild programs must wait out another funding cycle to see if a long-hoped-for budget increase will come through in the new fiscal...
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Meeting the High School Challenge: Making After-School Work for Older Students
Older youths who participate in after-school programs significantly improve their chances for success, but serving them effectively is one of the greatest...
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Fighting Poverty through Incentives and Work Mandates for Young Men
In this policy brief featured in a recent issue of the journal The Future of Children, Brookings senior fellow Ron Haskins examines...
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Pathways to Juvenile Detention Reform: Beyond Detention – System Transformation Through Juvenile Detention Reform
This is the 14th report in the Casey Foundation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) Pathways series on juvenile detention reform. It documents...
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Residential Treatment Programs: Concerns Regarding Abuse and Death in Certain Programs for Troubled Youth
Residential treatment programs operating as wilderness therapy programs, boot camps and academies cite positive outcomes, but there have been numerous allegations regarding...
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Combination Treatment Most Effective in Adolescents with Depression
A clinical trial of 439 adolescents (ages 12 to 17) with major depression has found that a combination of medication and psychotherapy...
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Adolescent Romantic Relationships as Precursors of Healthy Adult Marriages
Policymakers interested in promoting healthy adult marriages need to understand how adolescent romantic relationships – particularly those of low-income youth – function,...
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2007 Montana Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)
Montana says its 2007 YRBS shows a 45 percent drop in reported methametaphine use among high schoolers from 2005 to 2007, from...
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Depression among Adults Employed Full-Time, by Occupational Category
Depression negatively affects U.S. industries through lost productivity, employee absenteeism and low morale. Each year, companies lose an estimated $30 billion to...
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Hitting the MARC: Establishing Foster Care Minimum Adequate Rates for Children
States must raise the rates by which they reimburse foster parents by an average of 36 percent to cover the actual costs...
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Parent Recruitment and Training: A Crucial Neglected Child Welfare Strategy
The foster care financing system’s allocation of federal funds shortchanges children in need of loving, permanent families, according to this new report...
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Opinion
Youth Facts vs. Writer’s Fiction
In his writings for Youth Today and other media outlets, Mike Males has taken on a laudable mission: combating erroneous stereotypes of...
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Opinion
Agencies Worth Saving
Don Mathis, CEOCommunity Action PartnershipWashington, D.C. Thank you for John Kelly’s "Youth Work Snapshot" on the TRI-CAP Teen Wellness Centers in Jasper,...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
This Just In: Good Help is Hard to Find
"Good help is so hard to find these days."– Jafar, in "The Return of Jafar" Let’s admit right off the bat that...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Tobacco Sales Down
Sales of tobacco to underage youth hit an all-time low last year, according to data released last month by the U.S. Substance...
