Certain parental behaviors can provide buffers against the various dangers their children will face, while others increase their children’s susceptibility to such ...
Objective: To foster self-development, literacy, community responsibility, social skills, personal finance skills and physical fitness for at-risk boys
and girls ages ...
All kids experience loss. The key is to help them channel their grief into personal growth, not violence or destructive behavior. AllKidsGrieve.org offers books, ...
Mother's Day 2000 has passed, but the Million Mom March continues to move forward as the largest, national grassroots organization of "mothers and others" working to ...
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. 4, pgs. 588-593
Free from Dr. ...
While most youth who enter the juvenile justice system never return, a small number of serious, violent juvenile offenders reoffend repeatedly, accounting for a ...
Building Blocks for Youth is an effort to protect minority youth in the justice system and to promote rational and effective juvenile justice policies.
Eighteen U.S. states have no minimum age for possession of rifles and shotguns, says a new report by the Open Society Institute and the Funders’ Collaborative for Gun ...
With financial support from Microsoft Corporation and Children’s Television Workshop (creators of “Sesame Street”), and with guidance from the latter, the National ...
Phyllis Ellickson, Ph.D., and Kimberly McGuigan, Ph.D.
American Journal of Public Health,
April 2000, Vol. 90, No. 4,
pgs. 566-572
Free from Dr. Ellickson, RAND, P.O. ...
Job Corps graduates earn higher wages and are less likely to have run-ins with the criminal justice system than eligible nonparticipants, according to this report ...
The theme this month is violence. It is a hot topic among researchers who focus on youth, and there are many new efforts to try to understand its underlying causes so ...
This publication from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is designed for young people (and those young to the field of evaluation) who want to ...
