Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Pubs and Videos for September 2002
CommunitySchool, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, by Joyce L. Epstein, Mavis G. Sanders, Beth S. Simon, Karen Clark Salinas,...
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Multiple Choices After School: Findings from the Extended-Service Schools Initiative
The research in this report, conducted by Public/Private Ventures and the Manpower Demonstration Research Corp., examines Extended-Service Schools (EES), school-based programs that...
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Arts Programs for Juvenile Offenders in Detention and Corrections: A Guide to Promising Practices
This report details the strengths and weaknesses of six juvenile offender arts outreach programs that were part of joint efforts by the...
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Teenagers At Greatest Risk For Crime Victimization
This data-filled report shows that teenagers are twice as likely as any other age group to be victims of violent crime.
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BEST Strengthens Youth Worker Practice
This report details the implementation of the BEST Initiative, launched in 1996 to help local communities establish comprehensive youth development programs.
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Opening Doors: Students’ Perspectives on Juggling Work, Family and College
Continuing education at a community college has the potential to dramatically increase a student’s marketable skills, yet few students complete these additional...
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Getting Out the Youth Vote in Local Elections: Results from Six Door-to-Door Canvassing Experiments
According to this report, young voters are more susceptible to personal contact through canvassing than are older voters. Researchers studied the efficacy...
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Youth & Violence: Students Speak Out for a More Civil Society
This report culminates three years of research based on asking youth to help solve youth violence issues. Among the varied responses were...
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Helping Teens Develop Healthy Social Skills and Relationships: What the Research Shows about Navigating Adolescence
This report critically examines the importance of building and maintaining strong social skills through relationships during the teenage years.
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Media Literacy: An Alternative to Censorship
This analysis champions the notion that the most constructive way for youth to make selective and informed decisions about the media is...
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In This Generation: Sexual & Reproductive Health Policies for a Youthful World
This report uses input from global sexual and reproductive health programs to create approaches for promoting positive youth decision-making on sexual matters.
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When It’s Your Own Child: Some Surprising Views from Parents about Special Ed
This report highlights the responses of a national random sampling of parents with special-needs children and is timely in light of the...
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Research
Research of Note for September 2002
Because September is back-to-school month, it’s a good time to think about schools. Two of the three new studies below focus on...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Spectrum Youth and Family Services’ Legal Clinic
Burlington, Vt.(802) 864-7423resjustice@aol.com Objective: Providing a free, weekly, walk-in legal clinic for youth who are homeless, on the run or in trouble...
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News
Missing Kids’ Center Vanishes
Tampa, Fla.—As tales of child abductions rivet the nation and prompt President Bush to convene a missing children’s conference next month, one...
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Opinion
U.S. Drug Policy: Maximizing Harm
By Robert Sharpe In his June Youth Today column (“What Are You People? On Dope?”), Mike Males accuses the drug policy reform...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Web Watch for September 2002
Child Welfare AdoptUSKidswww.adoptuskids.orgis a service of the National Adoption Center, dedicated to matching hard-to-place children with families. More than 60 percent...
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News
Youth Employment Councils Wobble
After a couple of years in operation, the Workforce Investment Board’s youth council in Yakima, Wash., is missing just one thing: a...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
News Briefs for July-August 2002
DARE Slashed in Hometown: The Los Angeles Police Commission has threatened to cut DARE, the substance abuse program that was founded in...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Awards for July 2002
2002 Casey Awards For: Individuals and organizations that provide leadership, resources and exemplary support for youth-led crime prevention efforts.By: Youth Crime Watch...
