Youth Today
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News
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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News
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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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
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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Research
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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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
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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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
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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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
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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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Resources: Publications, Videos and More for May 2007
Come Out and Win: Organizing Yourself, Your Community, and Your World Sue Hyde Beacon Press 156 pages. $13. A must-have for...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Out Law: What LGBT Youth Should Know about Their Legal Rights
Lisa KeenBeacon Press153 pages. $13. This guide for LGBT youth outlines their legal rights in simple, comprehensive language, explaining how specific laws...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Hush: Moving from Silence to Healing after Childhood Sexual Abuse
Nicole Braddock Bromley208 pages. $12.99. A book written for both young abuse victims and the adults who care about them, in...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kids’ Inner Wildness
Chris MercoglianoBeacon Press201 pages. $24.95. A guide on how to allow children to safely experience “authentic” childhoods. The beginning chapters analyze how,...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Raise Them Up: The Real Deal on Reaching Unreachable Kids
Kareem Moody, with Anitra BuddSearch Institute 111 pages. $9.95. A how-to guide for youth workers on dealing with kids who are especially...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Essential Guide to Talking with Teens
Jean Sunde PetersonFree Spirit Publishing282 pages. $29.95. A compilation of discussion topics for youth workers who lead small group discussions. The introduction...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Child Advocacy 360
Vowing to “engage, enrage or motivate” people to take action against child abuse and neglect, this independent, nonprofit news service uses video,...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Philadelphia Children’s Commission
A model site for putting a youth spin on local information. Postings include the city’s “Children’s Budget,” its Children’s and Community Report...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Kids Are Waiting
The Kids Are Waiting campaign was set up with support by the Pew Charitable Trusts to promote the findings of The Pew...
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Nineline
Through this electronic version of its counseling hotline, (800) 999-9999, the nonprofit Covenant House tries to help youth in crisis over families,...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Learn to Mentor
This online course offers everything needed to “fully prepare you to be a mentor,” says its founder, The National Mentoring Partnership. The...
