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Critical Choices: Making Drug Policy at the State Level Drug Strategies
This report outlines the needs and roles that state governments must play in reducing the demand for drugs through treatment and prevention...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
The Hardy Life of Worst Practice
Much is made in the youth service field of “best practice,” as well it should be. Striving for positive results for young...
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Opinion
YAA: More Important Than You Think
Convinced that the Younger Americans Act (YAA) is the legislative marker that could finally put youth development on the map? You are...
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Opinion
“Character” Purists, Cleanse Thyselves
Americans hate adolescents and never hesitate to let them know it. How else do we explain March’s ugly rush to typecast all...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Chasing Daniel
Four-year-old Daniel Wilson was literally a handful. “It was all I could do to hold him,” says his 31-year-old father, DeWayne Wilson,...
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Opinion
Battle Stations
When the 107th Congress convened in January, supporters of positive youth development had great hopes for the Younger Americans Act (YAA), unveiled...
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News
Faith-Based Debate Stirs Britain
Leicester, England—President George Bush’s enthusiasm for enlisting faith groups to deliver more government-funded human services is spreading across the...
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News
Juvenile Crimes Tiptoe Into Congress
Last year at this time, opinions about proposed juvenile justice legislation were splashed across newspapers, flashed on television screens and hotly debated...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Pros and Cons of Single-Sex High Schools
By Liesel Haskell, 17 My alarm clock is blaring – it’s 5:30 a.m. I jump out of bed and head for the...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly at a Boys’ School
By Richard Kwon, 17 After a long night of working on an essay, I woke up late the next day and had...
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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...
