Youth Today
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Help Your Youth Workers Succeed
What do your youth workers need to succeed? Search Institute and the National Collaboration for Youth recently surveyed more than 1,000 youth...
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Opinion
The Ugly Reality of Restraints
As a one-time youth worker who worked with youth in an adjudicated residential setting in southern Michigan, I am dismayed by the...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
School Daze
Represent, New York There I was on the train to visit City-As-School for the first time. It was an alternative school for...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
My Escape from High School
New Youth Connections, New York When I think about all the years I spent sitting in class, what stands out is an...
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News
Time for Reform: Support Relatives in Providing Foster Care and Permanent Families for Children
Kids Are Waiting Children in out-of-home placements with relatives tend to be as safe as, or safer than, children placed with unrelated...
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News
Effect of Deployment on the Occurrence of Child Maltreatment in Military and Nonmilitary Families
American Journal of Epidemiology A time-series analysis by researchers at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and the Research Triangle...
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News
Additional Federal Action Could Help States Address Challenges in Providing Services to Children and Families
U.S. Government Accountability Office Despite substantial federal and state investment, states have had difficulty ensuring the safety, well-being and permanency of children...
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The Health Benefits of Volunteering: A Review of Recent Research
Corporation for National Service By helping others, volunteers appear to help themselves live longer, function at higher levels and reduce depression, says...
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Key Facts on Corporate Foundations
Foundation Center Giving by the nation’s more than 2,600 grant-making corporate foundations rose an estimated 6 percent in 2006, to a record...
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The NIH MRI Study of Normal Brain Development
National Institutes of Health (NIH)/Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society The first findings from the NIH’s large MRI Study of Normal Brain...
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Interactive Food & Beverage Marketing: Targeting Children and Youth in the Digital Age
Center for Digital Democracy and the Berkeley Media Studies Group Food and beverage companies are using cell phones, instant messaging, video games,...
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An Action Plan for Behavioral Health Workforce Development Strengthening Professional Identity: Challenges of the Addictions Treatment Workforce
U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration These two resources can help mental health and substance abuse professionals organize and strengthen...
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Focal Point: Traumatic Stress/Child Welfare
Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children’s Mental Health The winter 2007 edition of the semiannual magazine Focal Point highlights...
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The Collective Leadership Framework: A Workbook for Cultivating and Sustaining Community Change
W.K. Kellogg Foundation/Kellogg Leadership for Community Change KLCC acknowledges that “conventional approaches to training leaders often overlook important community voices.” To ensure...
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News
Identifying Immigrant Families Involved with Child Welfare Systems
The Urban Institute More than one-fifth of all U.S. children have at least one immigrant parent, according to figures from the Urban...
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News
Substance Abuse Interventions for Young Offenders
Juvenile and Family Court Journal The article looks at the early success indicators of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Reclaiming Futures initiative...
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News
2007 Report: Child and Youth Well-Being Index, 1975-2005
The Foundation for Child Development (FCD) Following an upward trend that peaked in the early 2000s, improvements in the quality of life...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
OJJDP’s Missing Link
Let’s say your program jumps on the evidence-based bandwagon and spends lots of time and money to develop a high-tech performance measurement...
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Research
Depression and the Initiation of Alcohol and Other Drug Use among Youths Aged 12 to 17
U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Available at http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k7/newUserDepression/newUserDepression.cfm. It’s one of the “chicken or egg” paradoxes of youth...
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Research
Quality Time After School: What Instructors Can Do to Enhance Learning
Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) Available at http://www.ppv.org/ppv/publications/assets/213_publication.pdf. Youth workers may be scrambling to keep up with the avalanche of recent research on the...
