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State of the Air 2001

American Lung Association This report gives a failing grade in air quality to communities that are home to 30 million children...

News

When Mom or Dad is Locked Up

By Amy Bracken Jessup, Md.—Lowell Gibson lives 15 miles from her nine-year-old son but hasn’t seen him in three years. When...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

National Nonprofits

Grace Reef, for the past four years director of intergovernmental relations at the Children’s Defense Fund, is moving to Capitol Hill. She’ll...

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Untapped Potential: State Earned Income Credits and Child Poverty Reduction

By Amy Bracken This research brief says the federal Earned Income Credit (EIC) lifts 2.5 million children out of poverty, and...

Research

Research Watch AIDS and Young Women

AIDS is a growing threat to women, including teenage girls. A new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

Missing Kids, Lost Caucus

One of the more active youth-related caucuses is the Missing and Exploited Children’s Caucus. A bipartisan group listing nearly 150 members on...

Guest Opinion Essay

Leave No Child (or Family) Behind

Advocates for broader supports for children, youth and families have a common focal point: President George Bush’s tax cut proposal. Hailed by...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Does Welfare Reform Hurt Teens?

While researchers unveiled more evidence last month that welfare reform helps poor parents and children in many ways, a dark cloud stands...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

STDs Discriminate

New findings dramatically demonstrate how the spread of sexually transmitted diseases differs by age, gender, race and geography. The U.S. Centers for...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Briefly…

Record-Setting Child Support – Before leaving town in January, outgoing U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala announced that...

► Newsmakers

Bad Form on Welfare Reform

Talk about biting the hand that feeds you – and flies you, and puts you up in a nice hotel. When members...

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Crossroads: New Directions in Social Policy American Public Human Services Association

“The Bush administration and the 107th Congress are presented with a compelling opportunity,” this report begins, “to eliminate outmoded federal rules and...

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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...

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

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...

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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...

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...

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...

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...