Youth Today
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News
Regulating Teenage Abortion in the United States: Politics and Policy
International Journal of Law, Policy, and the Family More than three decades after Roe v. Wade, there is little constitutional wiggle room...
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Improving the Child Welfare Workforce: Lessons Learned from Class Action Litigation
The National Center for Youth Law/Children’s Rights Improving the Child Welfare Workforce (Click image for larger chart.) The percentage of professionals surveyed...
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Offending During Late Adolescence: How Do Youth Aging Out of Care Compare with Their Peers?
Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago Using a sample of young adults aging out of foster care and a nationally...
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Report Card 7: Child Poverty in Perspective
UNICEF’s Innocenti Research Centre The United States scored near the bottom in a UNICEF report released last month that ranked the well-being...
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Survey Identifies Teen Online Behaviors Associated With Online Interpersonal Victimization
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine Using data from a 2005 telephone survey of nearly 1,500 American youth ages 10 to 17...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Does Staff Training Improve Youth Work?
Jutta Dotterweich Youth worker training is getting more and more attention, but the largely unanswered question for funders is whether it makes...
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Research
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth: An Epidemic of Homelessness
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute and the National Coalition for the Homeless Available at: http://www.thetaskforce.org/reports_and_research/homeless_youth It’s a statistic that...
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For Runaway Shelters, Cash Makes Change
Theresa Tod When Theresa Tod started working at a runaway shelter in the 1970s, she didn’t feel much different from the kids...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Grants Awarded for March 2007
George Gund FoundationCleveland(216) 241-3114http://www.gundfdn.org • City Year, Boston, $40,000 for the Young Heroes program. • Youth Opportunities Unlimited, Cleveland, $75,000 for general...
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Research
Annual Summary of Vital Statistics: 2005
Pediatrics, Vol. 119 No. 2, February 2007, pgs. 345-360 Abstract available at: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/119/2/345 A small media frenzy erupted last month over the...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Breaking the Silence: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Foster Youth Tell Their Stories
National Center for Lesbian Rights, Free. “I won’t sit in the dark and be a hanger. The only things in the closet...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
How to Feed a Teenage Boy
Georgia OrcuttTen Speed Press240 pages. $14.95. A nutrition guide and recipe book for parents and youth workers looking for healthy meal options...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Clinical Assessment of Children and Adolescents
Edited by Steven Smith and Leonard HandlerLawrence Erlbaum Associates628 pages. $95. A handbook for clinicians working with younger populations that outlines the...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Violence in America’s Schools: Understanding, Prevention, and Responses
R. Murray ThomasPraeger Pulishers259 pages. $44.95. Intended to help youth workers and social workers more fully understand the various forms of violence...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Understanding Youth: Adolescent Development for Educators
Michael Nakkula and Eric ToshalisHarvard Education Press304 pages. $29.95. A broad compilation of practical, theoretical and empirical information about youth development. The...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Staff Selection: Choose with Care
Meredith KiralyHaworth Press163 pages. $24.95. A hiring guide for providers of residential care. The first of the book’s two sections gives a...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Teen Obesity: How Schools Can be the Number One
Solution to the ProblemWilliam L. FibkinsRowman and Littlefield Education219 pages. $24.95. An action plan for parents, school leaders and community activists to...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Last Normal Child: Essays on the Intersection of Kids, Culture, and Psychiatric Drugs
Lawrence Diller Praeger Publishers150 pages. $39.95. This collection of essays for health professionals discusses the psychiatric diagnosis and medical treatment of emotional...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
National Young Worker Safety Resource Center
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~safejobs/nation/index.html The center provides training, technical assistance and resource materials to states and community groups interested in the health and safety of...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Center for Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence
http://www.spiritualdevelopmentcenter.org With financial support from the John Templeton Foundation, the Search Institute has launched an international, multi-faith and interdisciplinary initiative to advance...
