All posts tagged "Youth Development"

Serious Fighting-Related Injuries Produce a Significant Reduction in Intelligence

Poverty and Education: Finding the Way Forward

America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2013

Top Headlines 7/17

Juvenile Justice Miami pet therapy program for juvenile offenders first in Florida. Education U.S. Department of Education investigates Swathmore’s handling of sexual...

Researchers Question Link Between Early Puberty and Adolescent Behavioral Problems

Australian researchers have published findings that dispute previous studies linking early puberty with greater likelihoods of young people developing mental health issues....

Early Puberty and Childhood Social and Behavioral Adjustment

Out Online: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth on the Internet

Well and Well-Off: Decreasing Medicaid and Health-Care Costs by Increasing Educational Attainment

-Full report- Author(s):  Alliance for Excellent Education Bill DeBaun Martens Roc Dr. Peter Muennig – Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health...

Better Together: Building Local Systems to Improve Afterschool

Effects of State Medical Marijuana Laws on Adolescent Marijuana Use

Stanford University Football Program for At-Risk Youth Kicks Off Third Season

What grand experiment could possibly bring together the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA), Lockheed Martin and defending National Football Conference champions, the...

The Annie E. Casey Foundation: 2013 KIDS COUNT Data Book

Charter Schools Improving but Success is Uneven, Duncan Says

WASHINGTON, D.C.–Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is tired of the vacillating “good news, bad news” stories that always seem to describe charter...

Types of Alcohol Use Experience From Childhood Through Adolescence

The Comeback States – Reducing Youth Incarceration in the United States

The Nuts and Bolts of Strategic Planning for Nonprofits

Consider strategic planning “the shelter and water” a nonprofit needs to sustain, said Ana Cortez an expert in strategic planning who helps...

Youth Workers Essential to Helping Kids Succeed in School

When Woody Allen famously quipped that “80 percent of success is showing up,” more than a kernel of truth popped out. Because...

Two ‘Cool Girls’ Beat the Odds

“You still have all this stuff?” Erica Gibson, a 32-year-old computer application developer consultant, cannot believe that Joan Thomas — her childhood...

Consistency and Commitment Key to Successful Mentoring

As a broadcast journalist, Joan Thomas said that a large part of her profession entailed chronicling the worst aspects of humanity. Youth...

KIDS COUNT: State of the Child in Tennessee