Youth Today
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Opinion
Promoting Developmental Supports: A Nation at Risk
For all of us who work in youth development, it’s good to keep our eyes on the ball. The ball is providing...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
My Father’s Dream or Mine
New Youth Connections, New York “You want to be a what?” My dad looked at me like I had four eyes. “An...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Mandatory Senior Projects are Too Career-Oriented
20 BELOW, Eugene, Ore. I don’t want to bash someone’s grand plan to help high school kids, but something has to change. School...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Awards for March 2007
Laura Bush presents Alicia Guadalupe Montero Perez, center left, and Ingrid Janet Noh Canto, center right, both of La Chacara Children’s Cultural...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Federal Budget Freezes Youth Programs
For those who love budget slides, actuarial tables and the phrase “fiscal year,” February was your month. Not only did President Bush...
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News
One-in-Five Kids Participate in After-School Programs at Faith-Based Facilities, Outpacing More Traditional After-School Settings
Junior Achievement Worldwide This survey of 1,200 teens found that nearly 18 percent say they participate in after-school programs at churches, temples...
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News
Standards of Practice for Attorneys Representing Parents in Abuse and Neglect Cases
ABA Center on Children and the Law A committee of practicing attorneys and child welfare professionals from jurisdictions throughout the country compiled...
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News
Comparative Views on the Role and Effect of Faith in Social Services
Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy (Rockefeller Institute of Government) This set of case studies compares faith-based and secular providers of...
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News
Cost-Effective Investments in Children
The Brookings Institution This report identifies four areas of investment in children and uses cost-benefit ratios to argue for greater federal funding...
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News
Children’s Health Insurance: State Experiences in Implementing SCHIP and Considerations for Reauthorization
U.S. Government Accountability Office This report examines the allocation of funds in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), focusing on spending...
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News
The Dangers of Detention: The Impact of Incarcerating Youth in Detention and Other Secure Facilities
Justice Policy Institute Pretrial detention of youth before they are found delinquent is commonly misapplied and can lead to future delinquent behavior,...
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News
Social Networking Websites and Teens: An Overview
Pew Internet & American Life Project This survey of American youths online, ages 12 to 17, finds that 55 percent use online...
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News
Preventing Teen Motor Crashes: Contributions from the Behavioral and Social Sciences: Workshop Report
The National Academies This report summarizes presentations and discussions from a workshop where participants from various disciplines gathered to explore how the...
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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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News
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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News
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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News
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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News
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...
