Over the past several years, increased interest in preventing youth problems and promoting healthy youth development has led youth and family practitioners, policy makers, and researchers to develop a wide range of approaches based on various theoretical frameworks. Although the growth in guiding frameworks has led to more complex models and a…

My responsibilities for the Future of School Psychology Conference were twofold. First, I was to discuss the critical issues that children face or will face as we move into the 2000s. My second task was to propose roles for school psychology, within the constraints of the shortage, to address these issues.

This article presents findings from the evaluation of the Caring Equation, a Department of Health and Human Services-funded project established in 2003 in Arlington County, Virginia, public schools. The program is a multifaceted intervention program and is one of about 20 programs currently operating in school districts around the United States.…

Major strides have been made in the field of youth development. However, youth transitioning into adulthood have not received similar attention. These older youth have frequently been overlooked by policymakers and practitioners who have been more focused on designing programs and services for adolescents and young children. Because older youth…

This paper presents a picture of risk and challenge for youth in distressed communities and outlines how these communities can band together to create a continuum of supportive activities to bolster youth's success in school and life. As youth grow and develop, individualized support and exposure to new experiences has a significant impact on…

The placement of tobacco retail outlets near schools (especially elementary schools) has potentially harmful implications for youth, since kids get the message that smoking is acceptable. In order to determine how easy it is for youth to buy cigarettes, the Youth Tobacco Project was launched in October, 1995. To find out how accessible cigarettes…

Testimony from a hearing on the Reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act is presented in this document. Comments and a prepared statement by Representative Matthew G. Martinez open the document. Testimony from Representatives Harris W. Fawell and Dale E. Kildee is also included. Testimony and/or prepared statements…

This document is a collection of reprints of several reports presented to the Surgeon General of the United States by the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services. The reports contain much information that is useful to educators and others who develop or implement school-based alcohol and other drug prevention programs.…

This document presents testimony regarding the impact of violence on children. The opening statement of Senator Dodd discusses the exposure of American children to violence and notes the Senator's introduction of the "Child and Family Services and Law Enforcement Partnership Act," an act proposed to provide children exposed to violence…

The purpose of the conference summarized in this paper was threefold: to review progress made on behalf of runaway and homeless youth by communities who attended the 1991 conference; to introduce participants to the Target Population Planning Model; and to offer participants workshops on youth problems. Presenters were from the national, state,…

After spending a night in a Soho shelter, the author considered the desperate plight of London's young homeless and unemployed. (Editor/RK)

Today, many government and private agencies, clinics, foundations, and schools are sponsoring programs and literature for teen-age parents. These range in scope from fetal and maternal nutrition, to family planning counseling, to informal rap sessions on parenthood, to workshops on child care. (Author)

Contemporary themes of youth alienation and isolation are explored as they are exemplified in St. Exupery's "The Little Prince" and Billy Pilgrim of Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five". (EH)

This annotated bibliography on the education of secondary-school-aged migrant students or at-risk youth contains over 100 entries for books, journal articles, government reports, and audio-visual materials, organized alphabetically by personal authors' names and document titles in case of no personal author. The bibliography was compiled by a…

This document contains the texts of two Congressional hearings examining youth suicide, youth suicide prevention, and the appropriate role of the federal government. The texts of two bills are included: H.R. 1099 which would require the Secretary of Education to establish a grant program to assist local educational agencies in operating…