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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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Performance Measurement: Getting Results

The Urban Institute The Urban Institute Press has released a second edition of its step-by-step explanation of how to obtain and analyze...

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Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children: A Fifth Follow-up Review of Industry Practices in the Motion Picture, Music Recording & Electronic Game Industries

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) The FTC’s latest report to Congress gives the movie, music and video-game industries a mixed review for their...

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The State of Black America 2007: Portrait of the Black Male

National Urban League This year’s annual Equality Index – a statistical measurement of disparities between blacks and whites in the areas of...

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State Estimates of Substance Use from the 2004-2005 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health

U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) This annual national survey provides state-level rates for 23 measures of substance use...

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Leveling the Path to Participation: Volunteering and Civic Engagement among Youth from Disadvantaged Circumstances

Corporation for National and Community Service Teens from low-income backgrounds who volunteer become empowered and are more likely to become politically engaged,...

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In the Mood for Evidence

When Michael Young attended the first Abstinence Education Evaluation Conference in 2005, it “was almost like a pep rally for abstinence,” he...

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Household Firearm Ownership and Rates of Suicide Across the 50 United States

The Journal of Trauma, Vol. 62, Issue 4, April 2007 Abstract available at http://www.jtrauma.com/pt/re/jtrauma/abstract.00005373-200704000-00031.htm. For some people, the conclusion reached by this...

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Homework Time Action Pack

Center for Afterschool & Community Education $120. A multimedia package designed for after-school providers to integrate into a daily program that includes...

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Funding Social Change from the Inside Out

Ronald ClementStudy Center Press72 pages. $9.95. As the sun sets on the Haigh-Scatena Foundation – a grant maker for social advocacy that...

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Adolescent Sexuality: A Historical Handbook and Guide

Edited by Carolyn CoccaPraeger Publishers188 pages. $59.95. An in-depth look at the historical progression and culture of adolescent sexuality. The first section...

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