Youth Today
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Boy Talk, Too
While the girls’ groups have been busy caucusing, sewing on merit badges and powering around the Internet, the boys in the fatherhood...
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National Nonprofits
Holy Cow, yet another national board member has made the move from board member to full-time president. This time it’s the Englewood,...
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April Fool
Perhaps you were too busy on April 13th preparing to join an estimated 3 million young people for the 12th annual National...
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Iced @ COOL
Like, really not too cool. That’s the reaction to the abrupt departure of Melissa Kendrick, executive director of COOL – the Campus...
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Yearbook 2000: The State of America’s Children
There is one institution that we can depend on being there for our young people, says Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president...
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Safe & Smart: Research and Guidelines for Children’s Use of the Internet
With financial support from Microsoft Corporation and Children’s Television Workshop (creators of “Sesame Street”), and with guidance from the latter, the National...
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Gun Control in the United States: A Comparative Survey of State Firearm Laws
Eighteen U.S. states have no minimum age for possession of rifles and shotguns, says a new report by the Open Society Institute...
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Protection as Prevention: Contraception for Sexually Active Teens
This report bears relatively good tidings about U.S. teen pregnancy: Teen sexual activity, pregnancy and birth rates have all declined since 1990....
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Adolescents in Public Health Insurance Programs: Medicaid and CHIP
Of the 3.7 million American adolescents, ages 13 through 18, who are uninsured, more than 2.3 million are eligible for – but...
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National Job Corps Study: The Short-Term Impacts of Job Corps on Participants’ Employment and Related Outcomes
Job Corps graduates earn higher wages and are less likely to have run-ins with the criminal justice system than eligible nonparticipants, according...
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Research
Guns at Home
Mark Schuster, M..D., Ph.D., Todd Franke, Ph.D., Amy Bastian, MPH, et al. American Journal of Public Health April 2000, Vol. 90, No....
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Research
Girls and Crime
Leslie Acoca Journal of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention October 1999, Vol. VI, No. 1 Free from Juvenile Justice...
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Research
When Little Kids Become Violent Teens
Phyllis Ellickson, Ph.D., and Kimberly McGuigan, Ph.D. American Journal of Public Health, April 2000, Vol. 90, No. 4, pgs. 566-572 Free from...
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Research
Witnessing Violence at Home
With financial support from Microsoft Corporation and Children’s Television Workshop (creators of “Sesame Street”), and with guidance from the latter, the National...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Confessions of a Youth Worker
Many years ago I attended a dinner party at which the conversation turned to the question, “Has a book ever changed your...
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News
Wow, We Have Computers! … Now What?
After Hurricane Floyd slammed the East Coast last September, the kids at PowerUp in San Jose, Calif., hit the Internet. Their mission...
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News
Community Fatherhood Groups Battle For Existence, Recruits and Money
Florence, S.C.—Enveloped in the picturesque, seductive spring greenery and perfumed breezes of this sprawling Up Country Southern city, but left out of...
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News
In New Courts, Kids on Drugs Get the Treatment
Phoenix, Ariz.—Garrett is just 14, but he’s about to fail a test that could send him to jail. “I was around some...
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Opinion
Demonizing Youth Isn’t ‘Advocacy’
America’s major institutions, succumbing to cold, Reagan/Clinton-era politics, have profoundly let young people down. A recent avalanche of cloned reports by interest...
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Research
Drug Court Results: Positive But Spotty
Now that nearly 3,000 youths have gone to juvenile drug courts and the U.S. Justice Department has spent more than $16 million...
