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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

White House Gathering Plugs Positive Youth Development

The Clinton administration held the first-ever White House Conference on Teenagers last month and put the accent on the positive – forging...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

No CHIPs Off the Uninsured Kids Block

Several new reports on changes in public and private health insurance have put a frown on the faces of those striving to...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Joe Camel is Dead, His Spirit Lives

Joe Camel was put to rest 18 months ago, but Big Tobacco’s practice of targeting youth may be alive and well. Since...

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Moms Ring Bell

The Million Mom March held in Washington, D.C., and 15 other cities on Mother’s Day rang up impressive numbers – the aggregate...

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Mott-ly Alliance

In the growing field of the after-school programming, all roads, it seem, lead to Flint, Mich., home of the Charles Stewart Mott...

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National Nonprofits

Give that man a cigar. That, for the tobacco industry, at least, is the reaction to the departure of Chuck Wolfe as...

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Sub Minimum Wage Rewarded

Interns, take heart. Your job running that copier won’t last forever – just for the semester. Consider the case of David Brown,...

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Carnegie Units

In a staff change that underscores a shift in priorities at the Carnegie Corp. (assets: $1.7 billion) since Vartan Gregorian became president...

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Cashing in at Casey

The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 1999 annual report is out. Most foundations release their grantmaking decisions on a regular schedule throughout the...

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Politics of Charter Schools Makes Strange Bedfellows

The struggles of charter schools in the nation’s capital reflects what they’re up against nationwide. Washington, D.C., charter schools are pulling 10...

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America’s Child Care Crisis: A Crime Prevention Tragedy

This report synthesizes five new studies of varying size and focus, all showing a strong correlation between quality educational child care and...

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Substance Abuse Treatment in Adult and Juvenile Correctional Facilities: Findings from the Uniform Facility Data Set, 1997 Survey of Correctional Facilities

This report presents the findings from a survey of all adult and juvenile correctional facilities nationwide regarding substance abuse treatment service provided...

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Mentoring School-Age Children: Relationship Development in Community-Based and School-Based Programs

Mentoring helps improve youths’ grades, school attendance and family relationships, and helps prevent alcohol and drug initiation, says this report financed by...

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Teens and Their Parents in the 21st Century: An Examination of Trends in Teen Behavior and the Role of Parental Involvement

This report by a White House advisory body uses statistical evidence to back up intuition: that greater parental involvement reduces a teen’s...

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Reducing the Risk: Connections That Make a Difference in the Lives of Youth

Who has the most emotional stress? Older teens, rural youth, welfare recipients and Native American youth. Who is most at risk for...

Research

Girls and Weight Control: Let Them Eat Cake?

Eric Stice, Rebecca Cameron, Chris Hayward, C. Barr Taylor, Joel Killen Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, December 1999, Vol. 67, pgs...

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Does CPS Lead to Incarceration?

Melissa Johnson-Reid and Richard Barth Child Abuse and Neglect, April 2000, Vol. 24, no. 4, pgs. 505-520 Free from Dr. Jonson-Reid, 1...

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Video Violence

Craig A. Anderson, Ph.D., and Karen E. Dill, Ph.D. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology April 24, 2000, Vol 78, No. 4,...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Some Philly Programs Cruise, Others Feel a Bumpy Ride

Mary Strasser calls it “the Cadillac of school-to-career programs.” Mary Jane Clancy, executive director of the School District of Philadelphia’s Office of...

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