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Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Reclaiming Future’s JMATE Updates and Live Blog

Our friends at Reclaiming Futures have settled in at the Joint Meeting of Adolescent Treatment Effiectiveness (JMATE) and have been live blogging the whole...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Young Inmates Doing Thyme in the Prison Garden

On a football-field-sized stretch of land beside the Walton County Jail in tiny Monroe, Ga., a tractor tiller turned weed-choked rows of...

Post-Penn State Paranoia Moves West

It’s hard to imagine an elementary school where the challenges would be greater: 1,500 students in one building, almost all of them...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

A Look at Youth-Related Spending in Obama’s 2013 Budget (Updated 2/14)

President Barack Obama unveiled his 2013 budget proposal today, which calls for $3.8 trillion in spending and projects a $901 billion deficit...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Weekly Notes: PREA grants available, Walsh Act legislation, and next week’s council meeting

***Hope everyone who cares enjoys the Super Bowl. True story: JJ Today grew up equidistant from the Giants and Patriots, but attached...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Federal Youth Budget 2012

Agency/Program 2009 Enacted 2012 Enacted Agriculture Child Nutrition Programs $15 b $18.2 b Women, Infants & Children Program $6.9...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Weekly Notes: Helpful tool to seek unlikely partners in philanthropy; psych meds in the news again; big upcoming events in D.C.; and more

Notes is back after a week hiatus. We were going to post on Black Friday, but somebody pepper sprayed us in the...

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Youth Risk Behavior Survey

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention This 2009 survey by the CDC looks at health-risk behaviors among young people in 9th through...

News

Rate at Which Psychiatric Meds Are Prescribed to Foster Youth Alarms GAO

The Obama Administration told states last week of its intention to find out more about their practices when it came to monitoring...

Research

The Child Abuse Statistic That’s Scary, Ubiquitous – and Wrong

A 17-year-old and a 19-year-old go out on a date. At the end of the evening they kiss goodnight. If that is...

Expanding Child Abuse Laws Unlikely to Protect More Kids

High-profile crimes can generate watershed changes in policy and practice. The publicity surrounding the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson helped lead to...

Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Online Diarist

I’ve been hesitant to add to the rhetoric about the Penn State sex abuse scandal. However, I would be remiss in my...

News

Dual Involvment in Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice Connects to Major Struggles in Adulthood

Los Angeles youths who exit both foster care and juvenile justice earn less as young adults and cost the public more than...

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Childhood Poverty Among Hispanics Sets Record, Leads Nation

Pew Hispanic Center Latino children set an unfortunate record in 2010 when they comprised the largest percentage of U.S. children, 17 and...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

The Benson Index

In 1963, federal economist Mollie Orshansky devised a formula for measuring income adequacy and poverty in this country. The measurement was named...

News

Home Visitation, Teen Pregnancy Programs Are Targets of House Republicans

House Republicans’ plan to defund all of the health reform provisions for fiscal 2012 would eliminate or drastically reduce two programs aimed...

Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Online Diarist

Note: To provide some context for what follows: Ms. Boorhem is writing about her belief that the U.S. Department of Housing and...

Hospitalizations for Alcohol and Drug Overdoses in Young Adults Ages 18-24 in the United States

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, part of the National Institutes of...

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Overview of Relevant Employment Laws and Cases of Sex Offenders at Child Care Facilities

U.S. Government Accountability Office This U.S. Government Accountability Office study looked at state laws governing sex offenders’ employment in child-care facilities and...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier