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Checking Up on Juvenile Justice Facilities: A Best Practices Guide

Conditions and services in juvenile justice facilities can improve through education, advocacy and encouragement from activists, according to this planning guide. The...

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Targeted Outreach: Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s Approach to Gang Prevention and Intervention

This report explains the methods, cost and impact of two Boys & Girls Clubs programs to curb gang-related activity: Gang Prevention Through...

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2002 Facts at a Glance

Child Trend’s annual report on teen childbearing, sexual activity and contraception offers abundant data and some interpretation. Among the facts: 46 percent...

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The Civic and Political Health of the Nation: A Generational Portrait

This report analyzes political and civic involvement among four generations: “DotNets” (15- to 25-year-olds), “Generation Xers,” “Baby Boomers” and “Matures.” Among the...

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OverExposed: Youth a Target of Alcohol Advertising in Magazines

Youth under the drinking age saw more alcohol advertising in magazines than adults did in 2001, according to this report.

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In Our Backyard: How 3 L.A. Neighborhoods Affect Kids’ Lives

Study authors Anne R. Pebley and Mary E. Vaiana set out to answer the question of how a neighborhood can affect the...

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The Vast Majority of Federally Eligible Children Did Not Receive Child Care Assistance in FY 2000

This report found that only about 14 percent of children eligible for the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) and...

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Five Things Everyone Should Know about S-CHIP

This report examines the impact of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) and what can be done to improve its effectiveness....

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Child Labor: Labor Can Strengthen Its Efforts to Protect Children Who Work

The U.S. Department of Labor does not adequately enforce child labor laws, in part because it does not sufficiently guide or train...

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Like Now: Changing the Future Today With Youth Advisory Boards

Designed as an introduction to youth advisory boards, this report explains why the Kauffman Foundation started one and “what we’ve learned in...

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Ignorance Only: HIV/AIDS, Human Rights and Federally Funded Abstinence-Only Programs in the United States

Focusing on Texas, which has a significant number of abstinence-only sex ed programs, the researchers contend that those programs endanger the health...

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Research of Note for November 2002

Sometimes research results sound a lot like what our parents or grandparents taught us. Other times research can warn us that products...

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Y-Line

Springfield, Mo.(417) 887-4343 Objective: To provide employment, job training and social skills practice to poor teens who face barriers to employment...

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Service-Learning Sits in School

In the only state that makes every youth perform “service” in order to graduate from high school, the concept of service has...

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Youth Media Crank Up the Volume

Chicago—With summer waning, traffic blocked off and kids and adults milling about, Ayanna Freeman appears on a TV monitor in the middle...

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Faith-Based Drive Sputters

Congress is not likely to enact legislation this session that would make it easier for faith-based organizations to compete for federal grants...

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Criminal Records Checks: National Agencies Click on Fast, Cheap Methods for Screening Volunteers

Several developments in the past few months have suddenly made it possible for any youth-serving nonprofit to quickly find out if any...

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Web Watch for November 2002

Civic Engagement Free The Childrenwww.freethechildren.orgis a great website for youth workers trying to make a connection between their youth and kids...

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Awards for October 2002

PEPNet ’02 Awards For: The nation’s most inspiring youth employment and development programs.By: The National Youth Employment Coalition.Winners include: Denison Job Corps...

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