A study of people who were born prematurely sheds more light on the ever-amazing resiliency of kids to overcome trauma. The study...
The Garden Grove, Calif., city council last month imposed new restrictions on cybercafes, which cater largely to youth and young adults, after...
The Vatican has disseminated new rules for secret church-run courts to try priests facing allegations of molesting children. The letter, sent to...
A jury last month convicted former Boston-area priest John Geoghan of molesting a 10-year-old boy. More than 130 people have accused Geoghan,...
Foundations The New York-based Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s policy shift to focus on strengthening urban youth service agencies in the Northeast has...
This just in: “Tween” has been chosen as the 2001 Word-of-the-Year by “Webster’s.” Prepubescent 9- to 12-year-olds are enough of a market...
AdvoCasey This special edition (fall 2001) of the Annie E. Casey Foundation magazine – titled, “Fostered or Forgotten? A Special Report on...
Books After-school Building Effective Afterschool Programs, by Olatokunbo Fashola, takes readers through the process of modeling, creating and evaluating four types of...
This month’s Research Watch has some good news about teen pregnancy and potentially good news about foster care. Unfortunately, there are worrisome...
Civic Engagement Community Building Resource Exchangewww.commbuild.org links visitors to a large, regularly updated database of resources and information about innovative and...
In many people’s minds, welfare teens and teen parents are synonymous. But they’re not. The first group is much larger than the...
Lice inspections have become a fact of life in schools and children’s programs across the country, with children required to leave school...
By Celeste Fremon Los Angeles The Los Angeles Free Clinic opened in 1967 during the Summer of Love, when kids from around the...
While reticent to discuss juvenile crime and its prevention, Flores is effusive when it comes to discussing pornography, which he refers to...
By Amy Bracken In some regards, teens are doing better in almost all of the 50 states and the District of Columbia....
By Bill Berkowitz Applied Research Center The California-based Applied Research Center has been one of the most aggressive opponents of welfare reform, saying...
American Lung Association This report gives a failing grade in air quality to communities that are home to 30 million children...
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...
Grace Reef, for the past four years director of intergovernmental relations at the Children’s Defense Fund, is moving to Capitol Hill. She’ll...
By Amy Bracken This research brief says the federal Earned Income Credit (EIC) lifts 2.5 million children out of poverty, and...