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Wanted: New Words, New Policies

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...

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Press Watch for February 2002

AdvoCasey This special edition (fall 2001) of the Annie E. Casey Foundation magazine – titled, “Fostered or Forgotten? A Special Report on...

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Pubs and Videos for February 2002

Books After-school Building Effective Afterschool Programs, by Olatokunbo Fashola, takes readers through the process of modeling, creating and evaluating four types of...

Research

Research of Note for February 2002

This month’s Research Watch has some good news about teen pregnancy and potentially good news about foster care. Unfortunately, there are worrisome...

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Web Watch for February 2002

Civic Engagement Community Building Resource Exchangewww.commbuild.org links visitors to a large, regularly updated database of resources and information about innovative and...

Research

Dating and Other Dangers For High School Girls

Research Watch readers know that college campuses are not the safe havens that many adults envision, at least, not if you’re a...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

As Kids Do Better, Should CBOs Get Credit?

With across-the-board improvements revealed in this year’s “America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2001” report (see page 40), some observers think...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

States Blow Smoke At Prevention Efforts, Study Says

Smoking tempers and words greeted a recent report claiming that just 5 percent of the $206 billion tobacco settlement with 46 states...

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America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2001

Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics This annual statistical snapshot indicates several encouraging changes in the condition...

News

Satcher’s Sex Ed Prescription Hits ‘Wall of Ideology’

Will the United States ever reach a consensus on how to teach its youth about sex? It’s hard to see hope through...

Research

Smoking and Girls: A Deadly Mix

When we think of the dangers facing children, most adults think of violence, illegal drugs, drunk driving, teen pregnancy and AIDS. We...

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Legacy First Look Report 6: Youth Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke

This report, from the tobacco education foundation created by the national Master Settlement Agreement with the major tobacco companies, says more than...

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Critical Choices: Making Drug Policy at the State Level Drug Strategies

This report outlines the needs and roles that state governments must play in reducing the demand for drugs through treatment and prevention...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Teen Births Hit a New Low

The national teen birth rate hit a record low in 1999, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Feds Name Model Anti-Drug Programs

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) more than doubled its list of model substance abuse prevention programs last month...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier