Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
School’s Caring Helps Students Beat Odds
The Boston Globe Boston International High, created in 2003 to educate recent immigrants, graduated its first class in June, and all 35...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Clearinghouse on Expanding and Sustaining Youth Programs and Policies
www.financeproject.org/irc/youth/index.asp This new, growing database launched by The Finance Project and The Forum for Youth Investment contains nearly 400 searchable resources to...
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California’s Afterschool Expansion
William T. Grant Foundation This very readable report, written by consultant and former journalist Joseph Ames, details how California implemented the largest...
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Improving Attendance and Retention in Out-of-School Time Programs
Child Trends Few benefits can be gained from out-of-school programs without the active, consistent participation of youth. This brief provides ideas for...
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A Response to No One Ever Asked Us: A Review of Children’s Experiences in Out-of-Home Care
Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal (Vol. 24, No. 1) In order to better understand children’s perspectives on out-of-home care, the researchers...
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Diplomas Count: Ready for What? Preparing for College, Careers and Life After High School
Editorial Projects in Education Research Center/Education Week Today’s high school graduates will need at least some college education in order to land...
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Maternal Work Hours and Adolescents’ School Outcomes Among Low-Income Families in Four Urban Counties
National Poverty Center Using data from interviews with 1,700 single mothers of adolescents who went from welfare to full-time work, researchers found...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Keeping Siblings Together in Foster Care
Best practice theories hold that foster children should maintain contact with their biological parents unless there’s strong reason not to. Until recently,...
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STEP-UP
Minneapolis, Minn. (612) 455-1530 Working on It: Local business volunteers conduct mock interviews to help Minneapolis teens obtain summer jobs and...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Summer O’Malley
Summer O’Malley Leader G.E.M. Living Classrooms Foundation (410) 685-0295 www.gemmaryland.org Age: 31. Salary: $13 per hour. About the Program: G.E.M. (Girls Empowerment...
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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...
