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Report Roundup for February 2006

A compilation of the reports from this issue.

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Community Boxing and Fitness Center

Kansas City, Kan.(913) 371-7676 Objective: Use boxing and personal guidance to meet the physical, mental and spiritual needs of youth. In...

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Report Roundup from December 2005 – January 2006

A compilation of the reports from this issue.

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When Youth Job Training is Job 1

Chances are, if you’re not old enough to vote, you’re not pulling in a paycheck. Today’s teens face the most dismal job...

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YAPing it Up

Lebanon, Pa. Alan McLoughlin spends much of his week laboring in his family’s construction business, doing what’s commonly considered tiring work. He...

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Report Roundup of November 2005

Child Welfare Protecting Children in Foster Care: Why Proposed Medicaid Cuts Harm Our Nation’s Most Vulnerable ChildrenCasey Family Programs At least $10...

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Research of Note of November 2005

Foster Children May Be Paying A Price For Attorneys’ Overwhelming Student Loan DebtChildren’s Law Center of Los Angeles (CLC) and the Pew...

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Make ’em Sweat

When it comes to the kinds of activities to provide for kids, after-school programs have been getting two loud and competing messages....

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The Meth Epidemic: Hype vs. Reality

To even the most casual observer, the news media this summer gave the impression that a methamphetamine epidemic has created a child...

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Report Roundup from October 2005

Education2005 ACT ScoresAmerican College Testing Program Hundreds of thousands of 2005 high school graduates will begin college or work academically unprepared and...

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Research of Note from October 2005

Declines in Youth Drug Use Don’t Tell the Full Story The 2004 National Survey on Drug Use and HealthU.S. Substance Abuse and...

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New Homes for Foster Care’s Old Folks

After a day of hustling between college classes and two jobs, 19-year-old Sean Dachtler is ready to fall into bed in his...

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Covenant House: Nihil Obstat

No youth-serving agency in living memory has had such spectacular financial success or suffered as spectacular a scandal as New York-based Covenant...

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Research of Note of July 2005

Firearm Violence Exposure and Serious Violent Behavior University of Michigan/Science magazineAbstract available free at www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/308/5726/1239a, or contact American Association for the Advancement...

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Outreach Worker’s Fire Sets Off Alarms

The city’s most famous homeless youth advocate and onetime accused killer sits in Denny’s, although sitting doesn’t really describe the behavior of...

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Renaissance Scholars Program

Santa Cruz, Calif. (831) 459-2424renaissance_scholars@ucsc.edu Objective: Help foster youth get into college and stay there. In a Nutshell: Provides youth from high...

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