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Lifelong Readers: Driving Civic Engagement

Newspaper Association of America Youth who read newspapers are more likely to volunteer, vote and be engaged in civic activities as adults,...

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The Role of Religious and Social Organizations in the Lives of Disadvantaged Youth

Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government Using the National Survey of Families and Households, this paper examines whether participation in religious and...

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Investing in Children

Urban Institute/The New America Foundation/The Partnership for America’s Economic Success Federal investment in children is likely to decline over the next 10...

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Department of Justice Conference Expenditures

U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General An audit by the inspector general found that sponsors and planners for 10...

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What Happened to the Insurance Coverage of Children and Adults in 2006?

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation This analysis of new U.S. Census Bureau data on health insurance coverage examines the details behind...

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Human Trafficking of Children in the United States

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools This fact sheet describes the nature and extent of the trafficking of...

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We’ve Got a Gun? Comparing Reports of Adolescents and Their Parents about Household Firearms University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy and Practice

Guns – especially those found in youths’ own homes – are a leading cause among adolescents of injury and death to themselves...

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Red Families V. Blue Families

The George Washington University Law School/Social Science Research Network Increasing political polarization in the United States is the result of the development...

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Youth Exposure to Alcohol Advertising on Radio, 2006

Georgetown University, Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth The amount spent by the alcohol industry on radio advertising decreased by 38 percent...

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2006 National Survey on Drug Use & Health: National Results

U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Illicit drug use among youth ages 12 to 17 is at a five-year low,...

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Is There Common Ground? An Exploratory Study of the Interests and Needs of Community-Based and Faith-Based Youth Workers

National Collaboration for Youth/Search Institute Youth workers from community-based youth development settings and faith-based settings agree that it is essential that they...

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Talking about Youth Transitions

Youth Transition Funders Group54 pages. Free online. A helpful resource for youth advocates seeking advice on how to reach important audiences with...

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The Principal’s Guide to Afterschool Programs

Anne Turnbaugh Lockwood Corwin Press 144 pages. $24.95. More and more schools are getting involved in the after-school industry, which was previously...

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Small Schools and Urban Youth

Gilberto Conchas and Louie Rodriguez Corwin Press 168 pages. $24.95. The small-school revolution tends to be discussed primarily by its technical issues,...

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UP: Devotions for Faith that Connects

Tim Baker and Jenn Doucette Revell 192 pages. $11.99. Talk is cheap when it comes to living in Christ’s image, Baker and...

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Families in Need of Critical Assistance

Jessica Kendall American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law 130 pages. $19.99. Kendall makes recommendations for progressive reforms in state...

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How to Reach and Teach All Children Through Balanced Literacy

Sandra Rief and Julie Heimburge Jossey Bass 352 pages. $29.95 This handbook combines phonics lessons with what its authors describe as a...

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Play Therapy with Children in Crisis

Edited by Nancy Boyd Webb Guilford 489 pages. $48. Seven years ago, Webb published Play Therapy, which was widely adopted among clinicians...

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Can We Talk about Race?

Beverly Daniel Tatum Beacon Press 160 pages. $22.95. Tatum, president of historically black Spelman College in Atlanta, presents four essays that get...

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