Youth Today
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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...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Resource Generation
http://www.resourcegeneration.org/home.html Resource Generation supports and challenges wealthy young people (ages 15-35) who are interested in contributing to “progressive social change.” Through the...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Teen Consumer Scrapbook
http://www.atg.wa.gov/teenconsumer Compiled by high schoolers in Washington state and sponsored by the state attorney general, this website empowers youth to be effective...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Teen Driving Info
http://www.teendrivinginfo.com For use by researchers, educators, policy advocates, parents and teens, this site offers links to books and resources about teen driving,...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Youth on Board
http://www.youthonboard.org Youth on Board is a consulting and coaching firm that helps strengthen relationships between young people and adults working to meet...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The National Mentoring Center
http://www.nwrel.org/mentoring The center recently launched a redesigned website that improves access to its services and information and adds content focused on improving...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Portrait of the American Youth Worker
You start working with kids as a single 20-something, full of passion for making a difference. By your mid-30s, many of you...
