Youth Today
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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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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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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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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,...
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Grants
Grants Awarded for April 2007
Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation Arlington, Va. (703) 276-8240 http://www.meaf.org • The Corps Network, Washington, $122,000 for a national program in which youth...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Sleep Problems
Northwest Media 45 minutes. $99. A course for parents of foster and adopted children on how to approach common sleep disorders in...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Quick Scripture Reference for Counseling Youth
Patricia A. Miller and Keith R. Miller Baker Publishing Group 256 pages. $12.99. A concise, topical guide to the Bible that helps...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Game Over: Women in Prison
NEWIST/CESA 7 30 minutes. $149. This documentary, taped by inmates at Taycheedah Correctional Institution in Wisconsin, is intended to show young girls...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Careful with Credit
Sunburst Visual Media 30 minutes. $39.95. A guide for young people on how to establish good credit. Scenarios in which teens use...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Financial Success for Young Adults and Recent Graduates: Managing Money, Credit, and Your Future
Janet C. Arrowood Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 322 pages. $22.95. A financial planning and management guide focused on the unique interests...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Healing Parents: Helping Wounded Children Learn to Trust and Love
Michael Orlans and Terry M. Levy CWLA Press 304 pages. $34.95. A guide for parents and residential caregivers who are trying to...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Opening Our Arms: Helping Troubled Kids Do Well
Kathy Regan Bull Publishing 344 pages. $16.95. A personal narrative of the author’s experience as the nurse manager of a locked child...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Urban Girls Revisited: Building Strengths
Bonnie J. Ross Leadbeater and Niobe Way NYU Press 368 pages. $24. As the second volume in the Urban Girls series, this...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
New Directions for Youth Development: Rethinking Programs for Youth in the Middle School Years
Edited by Dale A. Blyth and Joyce A. Walker Wiley Periodicals 123 pages. $29. The winter issue of this journal examines the...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Afterschool Training Tookit
http://www.sedl.org/afterschool/toolkits From math to art, this online toolkit helps after-school programs create high-quality and fun enrichment activities with academic content. Each of...
