Youth Today
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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...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Tribal Justice and Safety in Indian Country
http://www.usdoj.gov/tribaljusticeandsafety This new U.S. Office of Justice Programs (OJP) site provides information about courts, corrections, law enforcement, crime statistics, crime prevention, and...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Media Magic Digest
http://www.unicef.org/voy/explore/media/3447.htm The media efforts of young people around the world are showcased by this quarterly e-newsletter that aims to promote dialogue between...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Shyness Home Page
http://www.shyness.com Sponsored by the Shyness Institute, Los Altos, Calif., the site gathers resources for those seeking information and services regarding shyness. It...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Applied and Interactive Theatre Guide
http://tonisant.com/aitg The site supports the work of theatre professionals who use their skills to help change behaviors and build awareness of various...
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Book Reviews
Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America
By Juan WilliamsRandom House256 pages; $25 You might not be able to judge a book by its cover, but you can sometimes...
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Opinion
Why Merge? For Security and Clout
Although big corporate mergers grab national headlines – like the recent $41 billion marriage of Cingular with AT&T Wireless – the union...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
A Data Shortage Yields Unplanned Lessons
When the researchers responsible for evaluating the federal Title V Community Prevention Grants Program realized that virtually none of the program’s grantees...
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News
The Study that Ignited (or Diluted) Mentoring
You’d think an organization that was serving tens of thousands of kids and had become a household name wouldn’t feel “vulnerable.” But...
