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Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Mentoring Foster Parents

Over the course of a decade, Rosie Starks served as a foster parent to four children. For the past three years, she’s...

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Camping.OUT

Getting campy: Girls use the costume closet to get dressed up for a camp activity. Photo: Philip Reames Triangle FoundationDetroit, Mich.(313) 537-7000...

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My Job – Cristina Chapman

Reaping what they sow: Chapman and boys on the Brooklyn farm. Farm EducatorAdded Value/Food ChangeBrooklyn, N.Y.(718) 855-5531Age: 27Salary: $40,000. About the Organizations:...

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Awards for May 2007

Children and Family Fellowships For: Outstanding administrators, nonprofit leaders and community development professionals who have shown dedication to helping disadvantaged children...

Opinion

The Child Welfare/Juvenile Justice Link

Your article in the April issue, “A Swift Kick in the Pants,” described chronic sexual molestation of boys in a Texas juvenile...

Opinion

Youth Behave Well; Now What?

I was very pleased to see John Kelly’s “Youth Crime Mystery” article in the March issue. We see too few critical and...

Opinion

Make Sure Children’s Cabinets Matter

All of a sudden, it seems, time is on everyone’s mind. In New York state, for example, the governor is challenging schools...

Opinion

Time to Consider

In late March, the Rhode Island Foster Parents Association staged call-ins to the legislature to oppose budget cuts for youth services in...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Getting Ghetto

By Fred Wagenhauser, 21Represent, New York I’m white, I live in the projects, I can rap, and all my life I’ve made...

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Assessing the Well-Being of Adolescents: Guides for Out-of School Time Program Practitioners

Child Trends Three new Research-to-Results briefs from the nonprofit Child Trends offer research-based advice and assistance to after-school practitioners charged with looking...

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Measuring Youth Program Quality: A Guide to Assessment Tools

Forum for Youth Investment (FYI) Given the “size and diversity of the youth-serving sector,” FYI notes, “it is unrealistic to expect that...

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Afterschool for the Global Age

Asia and International Studies in the Schools This report presents the findings from a national meeting convened by the Asia Society and...

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School Engagement and Youth Who Run Away from Care: The Need for Cross-System Collaboration

Chapin Hall Center for Children Chapin Hall researchers give voice to youth who have run away from their foster care placements and...

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Religious Service Attendance and Civic Engagement among 15- to 25-Year-Olds

The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) Nearly four in 10 young people between ages 20 and...

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Education Actions May Help Improve Implementation and Evaluation of Supplemental Educational Services

U.S. Government Accountability Office The No Child Left Behind Act requires school districts with failing schools that receive Title I funds to...

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Kids Share 2007: How Children Fare in the Federal Budget

Urban Institute From 1960 to 2006, spending on youth by more than 100 major federal programs shifted “from broad-based programs to programs...

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A Guide to Successful Public-Private Partnerships for Youth Programs

The Finance Project/The Innovation Center Drawing from the wisdom and experiences of successful partnerships at the national, state and local levels, this...

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Forgone Health Care among U.S. Adolescents: Associations between Risk Characteristics and Confidentiality Concern

University of California, San Francisco/Journal of Adolescent Health Approximately one-quarter of middle and high school students say they can’t remember having had...

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The Consequences Aren’t Minor: The Impact of Trying Youth as Adults and Strategies for Reform

Justice Policy Institute Incarcerating youths as adults does not reduce crime and disproportionately affects youth of color, according to this study, released...

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