Youth Today
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► Reports
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...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Cyber.rules: What You Really Need to Know About the Internet
Joanie Farley Gillispie and Jayne Gackenbach W.W. Norton & Co. 272 pages. $23.95. The Internet has massively changed the way we identify...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Service Without Guns
Donald Eberly and Reuven Gal Lulu Self Publishing (ID 231571) 196 pages. Free to download; $25 in print. Fostering a culture of...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Repairing the Harm: Restorative Justice
Newist 30 minutes. $149. A great resource for anyone who wishes to advocate a rehabilitative approach to reaching young offenders. The video...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Comes the Darkness, Comes the Light
Vanessa Vega American Management Association 220 pages. $21.95. A look at the dangerous world of self-cutting, a way of suppressing serious emotional...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Darkness Calls
The Healthy Aboriginal Network 42 pages. $5.35. (Bulk prices available.) A terrific artistic rendering of a struggle faced by many Native American...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Don’t Stress Out About It: Stress Management for Teens
Aquarius 45 minutes. $145. A simple presentation about the stresses that teens routinely deal with, such as weight gain, home strife and...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
When Nothing Matters Anymore: A Survival Guide for Depressed Teens
Bev Cobain Free Spirit 145 pages. $14.95. If there is a “light” way to broach the subjects of depression and suicide, Cobain...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Changes
CRU Institute 30 minutes. $95. “I want to do something with my life. That has nothing to do with me being black,”...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
What Kids Really Want to Ask: Using Movies to Start Meaningful Conversations
Rhonda Richardson and A. Margaret Pevec VanderWyk & Burnham 200 pages. $12.95. How was school? Who are you hanging out with? Adults...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Ripple Kids
www.ripplekids.com By publicizing the good works of kids across the nation, the nonprofit Ripple Kids hopes to inspire and empower other youth...
