Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Young and Out on the Field
The Los Angeles Times Young gay athletes are finding it easier to come out of the closet to what was once a...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Youth Voices in Juvenile Justice Reform
When Shay Bilchik thinks about the potential of involving adjudicated youth in juvenile justice reform, he recalls the impact of foster children...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Bolder Options
Shaping relationships: Mentor Katie Elden runs with her mentee, Tajh’et Horne. Photo: Photo courtesy of Bolder Options Minneapolis (612) 379-BOLD www.bolderoptions.org Objective:...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Chris Gross
Program CoordinatorBoys Hope Girls Hope of New OrleansNew Orleans, La.(504) 484-7744www.boyshopegirlshope.org/locations/neworleans/home.html Gross and Glenn, a Boys Hope resident. Photo: Photo courtesy of...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Awards for September 2007
Kathy Cloninger ABA Child Advocacy Award For: Dinstinguished service for children by members of the American Bar Association (ABA). By: ABA Young...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Pork Potpourri
For numismatists, 1943 is a year to remember – every penny minted that year was made of zinc. So, too, fiscal 2007...
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Research
Gang Wars: The Failure of Enforcement Tactics and the Need for Effective Public Safety Strategies
Justice Policy Institute www.justicepolicy.org/reports_jl/7-10-07_gangs/GangsFullReport2.pdf When it comes to reducing gang-related crime and preventing youth from taking part, social programs that offer jobs,...
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Choices, Changes and Challenges: Curriculum and Instruction in the NCLB Era
Center on Education Policy Nearly two-thirds of U.S. school districts report that since the implementation of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) during...
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African American Children in Foster Care: Additional HHS Assistance Needed to Help States Reduce the Proportion in Care
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Asked to analyze the major factors behind the disproportionately high number of African-American children in foster care,...
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What We Know Now that We Didn’t Know Then about the Criminal Justice System’s Involvement in Families with Whom Child Welfare Agencies Have Contact
Center for Social Policy and Research, Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago In the decade since the...
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Rite of Passage? Why Young Adults Become Uninsured and How New Policies Can Help
The Commonwealth Fund More than 13 million adults ages 19 to 29 lacked health insurance coverage in 2005, according to this report....
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Prospective Associations of Co-Rumination With Friendship and Emotional Adjustment: Considering the Socioemotional Trade-Offs of Co-Rumination
Developmental Psychology, Vol. 43, No. 4 Three psychologists at the University of Missouri-Columbia conducted this study into the effects of co-ruminating, or...
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The Effectiveness of Universal School-Based Programs for the Prevention of Violent and Aggressive Behavior
The Task Force on Community Preventive Services For two years beginning in 2004, the task force conducted reviews of 53 published scientific...
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Amplifiers of Developmental and Negative Experiences in Organized Activities
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign This study evaluated four sets of factors thought to affect adolescents’ developmental (positive)...
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Opinion
The New Black-on-Black Racism
When it comes to slurring young African-Americans as promiscuous, violent, and stupid, influential African-American leaders and commentators make radio clown Don Imus...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Not Déjà Vu All Over Again
A smart person once observed that opportunity resides at the intersection of need and capacity. I thought of this adage recently as...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
What About Hip-Hop?
New Youth Connections, New York The firing of radio personality Don Imus for referring to the Rutgers University women’s basketball team as...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Words Can Hurt in Any Language
New Youth Connections, New York When I heard that radio host Don Imus had used the terms “nappy-headed ho’s” to refer to...
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Research
2007 Kids Count Data Book
Annie E. Casey Foundation www.kidscount.org/sld/databook.jsp The release of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s annual Kids Count Data Book in late July again...
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The Quality of School-Age Child Care in After-School Settings
Child and Early Education Research Connections Although research indicates that regular participation in high-quality after-school programs yields many positive developmental benefits for...
