Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Money Madness and Butler Service
Flores: The attorney general’s butler, and the national juvenile justice field’s maximum minimum leader. Thank you, Jack Abramoff and your congressional pals...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Kids Get Money-Smart
The Washington Post A growing number of parents are realizing the importance of teaching children financial responsibility, and a variety of programs,...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
More Kids Raiding Medicine Cabinets to Get High
The Herald (Everett, Wash.) More communities are trying to confront prescription drug abuse among teens. Teens have relatively easy access to prescription...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
www.aecf.org The foundation’s new and improved website provides easier access to “information about Casey’s work, approach to philanthropy and lessons learned about...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Ending the Silent Epidemic
www.silentepidemic.org Launched as part of a new national movement to curtail the number of high school dropouts, this site offers resources to...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Lingle Directory
www.lingledirectory.org This directory profiles alternative, privately owned juvenile residential facilities for youth at risk of confinement in prisons, jails and detention centers....
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Various Media Rating Sites
Youth workers interested in learning more about the films, video games, music and television shows capturing the attention of teens can use...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Tools for Mentoring Adolescents
www.mentoringworks.org/Training_Institute_Tools_and_Resources.html The Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota and the Search Institute have partnered to create this set of free tools to support and...
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Time for Reform: Aging Out and On Their Own
Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative/Kids Are Waiting This report presents the latest state-by-state data on the number of youth who have aged...
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Dropout Risk Factors and Exemplary Programs
Communities in Schools/National Center for Dropout Prevention The evidence compiled in this study shows that dropping out of school is almost always...
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Gender Similarities and Differences in the Association Between Risk and Protective Factors and Self-Reported Serious Delinquency
Prevention Science (June, 2007) This study of more than 7,800 high school sophomores from seven states found that boys reported higher levels...
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Federal Resources on Missing and Exploited Children
Federal Agency Task Force for Missing and Exploited Children The fifth edition of this federal directory compiles a list of agencies and...
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Dating Violence, Sexual Violence, and Suicide Attempts Among Urban Teenagers
Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine The report examines the relationship between dating violence, lifetime sexual assault and suicide attempts. Researchers found...
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Cigarette Preference Among Youth
American youth continue to show strong preferences for specific cigarette brands – Marlboros, Newports and Camels – according to this survey of...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Failure to Copy Right
Martinez: “The community colleges still won’t take the type of people that CET will take.” Replicating successful program models remains one of...
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Research
Assessment of Self-Injurious Thoughts Using a Behavioral Test?
American Journal of Psychiatry/Harvard University Abstract at http://www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/164/5/820. Mindful of the fact that youth who intentionally injure themselves are often unable or...
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Research
Adolescent First Sex and Subsequent Mental Health
American Journal of Sociology/University of Minnesota Available at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?AJS090213PDF. The 1996 Welfare Reform Act and its reauthorization in 2002 provided for federal...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Who Cares for Our Children: The Child Care Crisis in the Other America
Valerie Polakow Teachers College Press 240 pages, $19.95. A careful, provocative analysis of the heartbreaking trials of low-income families in need of...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
College Rules! How to Study, Survive, and Succeed in College
Sherrie Nist-Olejnik, Ph.D., and Jodi Patrick Holschuh, Ph.D. Ten Speed Press 304 pages, $14.95. One of the biggest challenges as a student...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Cool Colleges for the Hyper-Intelligent, Self-Directed, Late Blooming, and Just Plain Different
Donald Asher Ten Speed Press 287 pages, $21.95. A Princeton Review for the average teenage space cadet. As the title would indicate,...
