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National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families, State and Community Substudy

This report, prepared by Abt Associates for HHS, finds that because of the strong economy, more parents working and more left-over TANF...

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New Rules, New Roles: Preparing All Young People for a Changing World

This report profiles six successful programs in career exploration and preparation for young people. Youth and youth-serving institutions today, the report says,...

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Handle With Care: Serving the Mental Health of Young Offenders Coalition for Juvenile Justice 2000 Annual Report

Between 50 percent and 75 percent of incarcerated youth have “diagnosable” mental health disorders, and few juvenile detention facilities are properly equipped...

Research

Foster Care and Mental Health Mental Health Care Utilization and Expenditures by Children in Foster Care

Jeffrey Harman, Ph.D., George Childs, Kelly Kelleher, M.D., M.P.H. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, November 2000, Vol. 154 Free copy from...

Research

Drinking Now, Problems Later Natural Course of Alcohol Use Disorders from Adolescence to Young Adulthood

Paul Rohde, Peter Lewinsohn, Christopher Kahler, John Seeley and Richard Brown Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry January 2001,...

Research

Linking Spouse and Child Abuse

Emiko Tajima, Ph.D. Child Abuse & Neglect, November 2000, Vol. 24, pp. 1383-98 Free copy from Dr. Tajima at University of Washington...

Research

Girls and Sports Medical Concerns in the Female Athlete American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Sports Medicine and Fitness Pediatrics

September 2000, Vol. 106, pp. 610-613 Summary version at www.aap.org/advocacy/archives/septath.htm With all the concern about couch potatoes, let’s start by emphasizing that...

Research

Striving to Succeed, Daring to Fail

The achievement gap between young black and white Americans is like the Energizer Bunny: It keeps going and going and going. And...

Opinion

Striving to Succeed, Daring to Fail

The achievement gap between young black and white Americans is like the Energizer Bunny: It keeps going and going and going. And...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Youth Work On Ice

ANAHEIM, Calif. An unusual twist in youth development work began modestly in 1977 when Neal Henderson decided to use his driveway outside...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Burned Out? Take $100K and Call Us in the Morning

BY AMY BRACKEN New York City, youth worker Barry Joseph of Global Kids uses a New Voices fellowship to design a...

Opinion

Combating Delinquency: No Place Like Home

When it comes to combating delinquency, there’s no place like home. That’s what nine months investigating America’s juvenile crime problem for the...

Opinion

Young Voters: Missing Inaction

No matter what organization sponsors youth development work, one certain feature is some variant on citizenship values – be it called civic...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

In U.S. Budget, the Winner Is…

BY SUE BADEAU While not officially adjourned, the 106th Congress came to a halt a few days before Election Day and...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

The Wrong Choice for Me

BY SARAH DEVEAU It was my second ultrasound. I had been bleeding heavily, even though it was only the seventh week of...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Be Grateful There’s a Choice To Make

BY ROBIN THOMPSON Since women began to really stand up for their rights in the ’60s, abortion has been...

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Putting the Plural in Casey

It’s image remake time for the Seattle-based Casey Family Program (CFP). Started in 1966 by hometown-boy-made-good Jim Casey, founder of the United...

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Rewarding Search

When the Minneapolis-based Search Institute gathered for its annual Healthy Communities * Healthy Youth Conference in early November, it had plenty to...

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