Youth Today
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Teen Births Hit a New Low
The national teen birth rate hit a record low in 1999, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Kids Grade Adults
Call it divine retribution for kids, or at least 1,028 of them. Chicago’s Uhlich Children’s Home got 12- to 19-year-olds together to...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Websites That Invade Youth Privacy Take Hits
On the same day the Federal Trade Commission settled its first case under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, the Center for...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Feds Name Model Anti-Drug Programs
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) more than doubled its list of model substance abuse prevention programs last month...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Briefly …
New Jersey Town Loses Tolerance – After 50 suspensions and police files created in six weeks for children – mostly between kindergarten...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Juvenile Peep Show
Welcome to the voice mail system of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Perversion Prevention. Press x1 for grantmaking guidelines for programs...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Juvenile Peep Show
Welcome to the voice mail system of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Perversion Prevention. Press x1 for grantmaking guidelines for programs...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Porn Wars
While reticent to discuss juvenile crime and its prevention, Flores is effusive when it comes to discussing pornography, which he refers to...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Kangaroo Court
That 1983 study (the comical “Images of Children, Crime and Violence in Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler” magazines by Judith Reisman) received $734,371...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Right Guy
If President Bush was searching for a superbly qualified candidate to run OJJDP, he needed to look no further than his own...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Faith Assumption
On May 20 President Bush was at Notre Dame trying to pump more gas into his compassionate conservative domestic agenda and his...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
National Groups
Quickly making his mark on the Corporation for National Service is former Indianapolis mayor Steven Goldsmith, now an unpaid special assistant to...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Radical Idea Serves Youth, Saves Money
Memphis, Tenn. In 1995, Patrick Lawler, CEO of one of Tennessee’s largest youth service contractors, approached state officials with a radical idea:...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Reading Between the Studies
“System building is slow. …The diversity of the field has all kinds of implications. …Only a modest percentage of low-income children participate....
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With One Voice: America’s Adults and Teens Sound Off About Teen Pregnancy, and Halfway There: A Prescription for Continued Progress in Preventing Teen Pregnancy
By Amy Bracken The vast majority of U.S. adults and teens believe that teens should not be sexually active but those who...
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2001 KIDS COUNT Data Book: State Profiles of Child Well-Being
By Amy Bracken In some regards, teens are doing better in almost all of the 50 states and the District of Columbia....
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A National Youth Development Agenda: Public Policy Positions of the National Collaboration for Youth
By Amy Bracken This publication outlines the positions and policy recommendations agreed upon by the D.C.-based National Collaboration’s 39 member organizations. The...
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Justice by Gender: The Lack of Appropriate Prevention, Division and Treatment Alternatives for Girls in the Juvenile Justice System
By Amy Bracken While juvenile crime has been on the decline since 1994, the number of girls in the juvenile justice system...
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Prospecting Among the Poor: Welfare Privatization
By Bill Berkowitz Applied Research Center The California-based Applied Research Center has been one of the most aggressive opponents of welfare reform, saying...
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Zero Tolerance, Zero Evidence: An Analysis of School Disciplinary Practice
By Russell Skiba Indiana Education Policy Center This report explores the effects and side-effects of extreme punishment – usually suspension or expulsion...
