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Liz Ryan – Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2024
Child maltreatment is a serious national problem. In fiscal year 2020 alone, approximately 618,000 children in the United States experienced abuse and neglect, and 1,750 died as a result. OJJDP supports the important work of children's advocacy centers and their multidisciplinary teams of child abuse prevention and intervention professionals. In…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Trauma, Trauma Informed Approach, Child Neglect
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Joel M. Hektner; Debarati Kole; Vimbayi Chinopfuktwa; Shawn L. Carlson – Journal of Youth Development, 2024
More than 1.6 million children and youth in the United States attend 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLCs), which are federally funded after-school programs available in each state, particularly for students who attend high poverty and low-performing schools (US Department of Education, 2020). These 10,125 centers are intended to do…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Youth Programs, 21st Century Skills, Disadvantaged Schools