Results List
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An Examination of the Increase in U.S. Teen Births
Source: Child Trends
The reasons behind an uptick in the United States teen birth rate are explored in this brief prepared by Child Trends. The National Center for Health Statistics just released new data showing that the teen birth rate increased again in 2007. This is the second…
Resource type: Research Report
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Integrating Evidence-Based Youth Programs Into Community Initiatives
Source: Child Trends
An expert roundtable and a listing of online resources provide ideas and tools in learning more about evidence-based youth programmes in the United States in these two briefs by Child Trends. Child Trends is an Atlantic grantee. 1) Integrating Evidence-Based Youth Programs Into Community Initiatives…
Resource type: Research Report
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Report Sounds Alarm on Child Accidents
by DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. Around the globe, accidents kill 830,000 children -- the equivalent of all the children in Chicago -- every year, according to a report issued Tuesday by the World Health Organization and Unicef. The report, the first to collect all known…
Resource type: News
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Raising awareness of need for child helmets
Source: Vietnam News Service
Original Source NHA TRANG - The Asia Injury Prevention Foundation (AIP Foundation) organized a concert promoting the Helmet for Kids (HFK) campaign in Nha Trang City on Monday, sending out the message "Put a Helmet on your Child". The HFK proceedings were dedicated in honor…
Resource type: News
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Achievement gaps narrowing in US schools since No Child Left Behind
Source: Christian Science Monitor
The Center on Education Policy is an Atlantic grantee. A new study looked at student performance in all 50 states since 2002, when No Child Left Behind Act took effect. The focus: achievement gaps for minority and low-income students. By Amanda Paulson, Staff writer of…
Resource type: News
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Strategies for Implementing School-Based Services
Source: Child Trends
Top practitioners and policymakers from New Mexico share what they learned in implementing school-based health services and extended learning opportunities in this case study prepared by Child Trends. Elev8 New Mexico is an initiative of the Children & Youth Programme of The Atlantic Philanthropies, and…
Resource type: Research Report
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Formal Sex Education Linked to Greater Condom Use Among Teen Males
Source: Child Trends
This Child Trends study finds that any type of formal sex education is linked with higher levels of condom use at teen males' first sexual experience. However, one in five teen males (ages 15-19) did not receive formal sex education about either abstinence or contraception before…
Resource type: Research Report
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Meddling parents of grown children pay a dear price
Source: USAToday
By Sharon Jayson Parents who stay close to their grown children have a positive influence well after they've left the nest, but those who overdo it and meddle too much endanger their relationship, several new studies suggest. Findings by researchers at Brigham Young University and…
Resource type: News
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Neglect, Abuse Most Common Factors for Children in Care
Source: The Irish Times
By Pamela Duncan Neglect, abuse and mental illness among parents are among the most common reasons for children coming before the child care courts, a project established last year to examine and report on childcare proceedings has found. The first interim report of the Child Care…
Resource type: News
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New Study Finds Nearly One-Half of Children in Immigrant Families Live in Poverty
Source: Child Trends
Child Trends is an Atlantic grantee. Washington, DC- Nearly one-half (47.9 percent) of children in immigrant families live in poverty when basic living and child care costs are taken into account, according to a new research brief from Child Trends and the Center for Social…
Resource type: News
