Youth Today
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Opinion
Goodbye, “The O.C.”
Yes, it was two-thirds yuppie soap, but Fox television’s “The O.C.” illustrated a slice of teenage life with an irony that’s refreshing...
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Opinion
How We’ve Let TV Hurt Girls
Fifteen years ago, I became director of an 18-acre residential treatment center in Westchester County, N.Y. The place was in lousy condition...
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Opinion
The Foster Care-Industrial Complex Makes Its Move
Every ideology has its blind spots. For conservatives, it tends to be polluters, oil companies and the military-industrial complex. For my fellow...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Coloring Outside the Lines
New Youth Connections, New York (All names have been changed.) I didn’t think much about race until seventh grade, when I...
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Opinion
Letters to the Editor for April 2007
How Mentoring Got Diluted The December/January article, “The Study that Ignited (or Diluted) Mentoring,” is very important and factual, especially as described...
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News
Is Kinship Care Good for Kids?
Center for Law and Social Policy More than 2.5 million children are being raised by relatives – mostly grandparents – because their...
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News
Voices of Students on Engagement: A Report on the 2006 High School Survey of Student Engagement
Indiana University This survey of students in 110 high schools in 26 states aims to illustrate how intellectually engaged high school students...
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News
Tool Kit for Creating Your Own Truancy Reduction Program
U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention This online toolkit covers such topics as the extent of truancy, its causes and...
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News
Adolescent Risk Behaviorsand Religion: Findings from a National Study
University of Pennsylvania Based on a national random sample of 2,004 youths, ages 11 to 18, the study finds that youth perceive...
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News
Medicaid: Health Promotionand Disease Prevention for School Readiness
The Commonwealth Fund Comprehensive well-child health services, such as those covered by Medicaid, play a critical role in preparing children for school...
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News
2006 State Juvenile Justice Legislation
The National Juvenile Defender Center This detailed report examines juvenile justice legislation by issue and by state, and allows users to compare...
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News
Drug Abuse Warning Network, 2005: National Estimates of Drug-Related Emergency Department Visits
U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) SAMHSA’s Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) system provides data on emergency hospital visits involving...
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News
Teens and Prescription Drugs: An Analysis of Recent Trends on the Emerging Drug Threat
Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) This report combines data from national studies and published reports to show trends in illegal...
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News
FY 2008 Federal Drug Budget: Prevention Funding Continues to Decline
Carnevale Associates Spending on federal anti-drug programs will decline under the Bush administration’s 2008 proposed drug-control budget – reflecting a decline in...
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News
Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration The agencies behind this report...
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News
Understanding the 4-H Workforce: Staffing, Structures and Salaries
4-H Center for Youth Development This intriguing internal look at a youth work force provides baseline data about 4-H staffing structures and...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Come and Get It: Free Evaluations
RICHMAN: “We as academics are quick to say, ‘You should do this,’ when we don’t understand” what nonprofits are “up against.” What...
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Research
Participation in Youth Programs as a Catalyst for Negotiation of Family Autonomy with Connection
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Available at http://web.aces.uiuc.edu/youthdev/Documents/LarsonPearceSullivanJarrett2006.pdf For decades, researchers believed that conflict was a necessary ingredient for teens to establish...
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Research
Attitudes of U.S. Voters Toward Youth Crime and the Justice System
National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD)Available at www.nccd-crc.org/nccd/pubs/zogby_feb07.pdf A little over a decade ago, nearly every state began responding to rising...
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Foster Kids Waive at College
A decade ago, Roy Block, president of the Texas Foster Families Association, rarely heard about former foster youths going to college. Oh,...
