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Paying the Price: The Impact of Immigration Raids on America’s Children

The Urban Institute With federal immigration raids on the rise, this report examines what happens to the children of adults who are...

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Repeat Teen Childbearing: Differences Across States and by Race and Ethnicity

Child Trends Although the teen birth rate reached a record low in 2004, nearly 20 percent of teen births that year were...

Research

More than Homework, a Snack and Basketball: Afterschool Programs as an Oasis of Hope for Black Parents in Four Cities

The Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) Available at http://www.baeo.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/mottSummary.pdf Black parents have a deep understanding of the need for high-quality after-school...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Pubs and Videos for November 2007

AFTER SCHOOL Afterschool Style in Practice:25 Skill-Building Meetings for StaffTamara Sniad, Claudia Weisburd, Sarah MelloCenter for Afterschool and Community Education/Foundations Inc.182 pages....

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Youth Work’s Immigration Movement

By Ed Finkel The Boys & Girls Club of West Georgia, after witnessing a 30 percent increase in Latino participants in three...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

The Jena Six and the Big Picture

The case of the “Jena Six” in Louisiana has drawn public attention to the disproportionate treatment of racial groups in juvenile justice...

Opinion

The New Black-on-Black Racism

When it comes to slurring young African-Americans as promiscuous, violent, and stupid, influential African-American leaders and commentators make radio clown Don Imus...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

What About Hip-Hop?

New Youth Connections, New York The firing of radio personality Don Imus for referring to the Rutgers University women’s basketball team as...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Words Can Hurt in Any Language

New Youth Connections, New York When I heard that radio host Don Imus had used the terms “nappy-headed ho’s” to refer to...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Immigration Raids Protested

While most of the child welfare field stays mum about the havoc sometimes created for youth and youth-serving agencies when adults are...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Deportations Strand Young U.S. Citizens

The Chicago Tribune Since the deportation of their mother last year as a “criminal alien,” 22-year-old University of Texas senior Luissana Santibanez...

News

Identifying Immigrant Families Involved with Child Welfare Systems

The Urban Institute More than one-fifth of all U.S. children have at least one immigrant parent, according to figures from the Urban...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Changes

CRU Institute 30 minutes. $95. “I want to do something with my life. That has nothing to do with me being black,”...

News

ICE’d Out

Crackdowns on Illegal Immigrants: Administrative arrests by fiscal year As federal immigration authorities raided a New Bedford, Mass., manufacturing plant in March,...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

American-Born Children of Illegal Immigrants Face Difficult Decision When Parents Deported

The San Diego Union-Tribune Many of the 18,000 adults deported since June under an initiative of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

News

The State of Black America 2007: Portrait of the Black Male

National Urban League This year’s annual Equality Index – a statistical measurement of disparities between blacks and whites in the areas of...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Coloring Outside the Lines

New Youth Connections, New York (All names have been changed.) I didn’t think much about race until seventh grade, when I...

Opinion

Evidence of a Darker Reality: The Black Youth Project

Six in 10 African-American youth believe “it is hard for young black people to get ahead because they face so much discrimination,”...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Tribal Justice and Safety in Indian Country

http://www.usdoj.gov/tribaljusticeandsafety This new U.S. Office of Justice Programs (OJP) site provides information about courts, corrections, law enforcement, crime statistics, crime prevention, and...

Book Reviews