Youth Today
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National Nonprofits
The Children’s Partnership, a small but polished advocacy organization, is expanding again. It was founded in 1993 by Wendy Lazarus, a former...
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The Foundation World
The Arsalyn Foundation (assets $9.6 million) in Glendora, Calif., founded in 1996 to “address the increased cynicism and the resultant decline in...
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Donna Departing
Donna Shalala, the longest-serving secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services since its establishment under Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the...
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News
Once Lame Juvenile Justice System Jockeys to the Lead
Richmond, Ky.—In four short years, Kentucky has erased a blot of shame from the record of what was laughably described as the...
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► Reports
Health Coverage for Legal Immigrant Children: New Census Data Highlights Importance of Restoring Medicaid and SCHIP Coverage
Leighton Ku and Shannon Blaney Center on Budget and Policy Priorities To examine changes in immigrants’ health insurance coverage, the report’s authors...
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Report on State Implementation of the Gun-Free Schools Act: School Year 1998-99
U.S. Department of Education “The information contained in this report should be interpreted with caution,” say the authors. In addition to questionable...
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School-Based Surveillance of Violence, Injury, and Disciplinary Actions
Paul Kingery and Aaron Alford Hamilton Fish Institute This report uses surveys of students to cast doubt on the validity of data...
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Snapshots of America’s Families II
The Urban Institute Between 1997 and 1999, the proportion of U.S. children with highly aggravated (“frustrated and stressed”) parents increased, says the...
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Child Health USA 2000
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) This report shows both good and bad trends in the health status and service...
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Evaluation of Community Schools: An Early Look
Joy DryfoosCoalition for Community Schools Of the 49 community school initiatives that submitted self-evaluations for this study, 36 reported academic gains...
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Are Teens in Low-Income and Welfare Families Working Too Much?
Robert Lerman The Urban Institute This study uses data from the Urban Institute’s National Survey of American Families (NSAF) to see how...
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Research
Another Reason Not to Smoke
Jeffrey Johnson, Ph.D., Patricia Cohen, Ph.D., Daniel Pine, M.D., and colleagues Journal of the American Medical Association November 8, 2000,...
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Research
Teen Love as a Four Letter Word
Special section of Child Maltreatment, November 2000, Vol. 5, No. 4 Guest editors: Candice Feiring and Wyndol Furman Available for $25 from...
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Research
Wake Up and Read This
Board on Children, Youth and Families, National Research Council Mary G. Graham, Editor National Academy Press, 2000 Available free...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
School Breakfast Program Misses Two Million Youth
While about half of the estimated 12 million children from eligible households received free or reduced-price school breakfasts in the 1999-2000 school...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Britain Implements National Youth Policy
London—In an effort to pursue a single, comprehensive national youth policy, British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Labor government has launched a Children...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Guns in Schools Spur Dueling Reports
It sounds like a presidential election: Several groups are counting guns in schools, but no one can agree on the real numbers....
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Restraint Law Reigned In
After two years of wrangling over language involving the use of restraints and seclusion in facilities for children and youth, the Children’s...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Teen Sex Ad Campaign Pregnant With Criticism
Catcalls, raspberries, howls of protest and various random drubbings have greeted a provocative new teen sex advertising campaign designed to do what...
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News
When Confidentiality Dies with a Child
Detroit, Mich.—Social workers and Child Protective Services investigators across the nation are adjusting to a new reality – their once confidential cases...
