Youth Today
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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...
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Opinion
Opportunity Up in Smoke
Adults, particularly those holding or aspiring to political office, are fond of lamenting the purported shortcomings of today’s young people. Solutions to...
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Opinion
Dead People vs. Living Youth
Always ready to surprise with appalling public policy, this 107th Congress has been no disappointment. Consider the attention given to two issues:...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Grants Awarded for July 2002
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation503 S. Saginaw Street, Suite 1200Flint, MI 48502Phone: (810) 238-5651www.mott.org • Tufts University Nonprofit Sector Leadership Program, Medford, MA,...
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Opinion
Make Colleges Work For the Community
By Andrew Hahn What prominent institution works as an occasional player in youth work but has the ability and resources to do...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Cops and Kids
Police and teens often have a difficult relationship. Many young people feel that police unjustifiably harass them. Police say they’re reacting to...
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Opinion
Foster Kids Need A Bold Plan
By Betsy Krebs“When I was in foster care, no one talked to me about my future.” These words, typical of a former...
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Opinion
Why College?
Donald T. Floyd Jr.President/ CEONational 4-H CouncilChevy Chase, MD I am writing in response to the article, “College-Linked Training Spreads, But Does...
