Youth Today
All posts tagged "Child Welfare and Foster Care"
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Top Weapon in Teen Smoking Is Teens
By Amy Bracken Less than a year after a bitter struggle with GOP lawmakers who threatened its very existence, Florida’s partly youth-driven...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Anti-Alcohol Campaign Targets Younger Youth
In response to evidence that Americans are beginning to drink at younger ages, anti-alcohol forces are shifting their prevention efforts to younger...
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Yearbook 2000: The State of America’s Children
There is one institution that we can depend on being there for our young people, says Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president...
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Gun Control in the United States: A Comparative Survey of State Firearm Laws
Eighteen U.S. states have no minimum age for possession of rifles and shotguns, says a new report by the Open Society Institute...
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Adolescents in Public Health Insurance Programs: Medicaid and CHIP
Of the 3.7 million American adolescents, ages 13 through 18, who are uninsured, more than 2.3 million are eligible for – but...
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Research
Guns at Home
Mark Schuster, M..D., Ph.D., Todd Franke, Ph.D., Amy Bastian, MPH, et al. American Journal of Public Health April 2000, Vol. 90, No....
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Guest Opinion Essay
Demonizing Youth Isn’t ‘Advocacy’
America’s major institutions, succumbing to cold, Reagan/Clinton-era politics, have profoundly let young people down. A recent avalanche of cloned reports by interest...
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Guest Opinion Essay
March Madness
As the nation prepares for the obligatory wringing of hands and lowering of flags on April 20th to mark the first anniversary...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
With Washington Stalled On Guns, Youth Take Action
“March Madness” took on a new meaning with last month’s hard-edged gun law rhetoric from President Clinton and the National Rifle Association,...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
More Money for Child Abuse Services, Background Checks
By Amy Bracken President Bill Clinton, whose proposed budget for next year keeps funding for child abuse programs flat and cuts at...
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State Programs Can Reduce Tobacco Use
In 1997 the National Cancer Policy Board, a joint program of the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council (which is...
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The Value of Investing in Youth in the Washington Metropolitan Region
Prepared for the Morino Institute by the Brookings Institution Center on Urban & Metropolitan Policy When President Clinton took a tour of...
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News
Welfare-to-Work Overhaul Boosts Fatherhood Groups
It took 20 phone calls to persuade him, but 21-year-old Julius Armstrong – a noncustodial never-married father – finally said, “I’ve got...
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News
Case Could Harm U.S. Kids Abducted to Foreign Lands
The Elian Gonzalez child custody case may thrill foes of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, but it may jeopardize the return of more...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
At Child Welfare Agencies, the Feds Are Coming
By Amy Bracken Federal officials will start visiting state child welfare agencies to see how they’re serving kids, under a more stringent...
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Separate and Unequal: A report on educational barriers for homeless children and youth
Homeless children and youth are often denied their right to attend public schools, according to this report funded by the W.K. Kellogg...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
A Different Kind of Smart: A Study of Educational Obstacles Confronting Homeless Youth in New England
This study seeks to draw national implications from an eight-month study of educational obstacles facing homeless youth in four New England states:...
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Guest Opinion Essay
Keeping Our Eyes On the Prize
BY KAREN PITTMAN The new millennium is upon us. Reflection is required. What have we accomplished over the past few decades? We...
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► Newsmakers
Pig Headed Pierce
Bill Pierce, president of the 130-member National Council for Adoption (NCFA) since its founding in 1980 retired at year’s end. Pierce surely...
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Research
The Link Between Violence to Animals and People Protecting Children
A Publication of the American Humane AssociationVol. 15, No. 2, 1999Available for $11 from Robyn Alsop, editor, (303) 792-9417, or children@americanhumane.org. This...
