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**Children, Youth & Families
Working
Mothers Shape Kid’s Family Roles
According to an
online survey released at the end of July, having an employed mom
leads college-age men to expect that they'll be doing more child
care than the sons of homemakers, who assume that their wives will
take the lead in tending to the nest. It's just the opposite for
daughters: If their mothers work, they plan to spend less time with
their kids than do women whose moms stay home.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/usatoday/20040809/ts_usatoday/workingmomsshapekidsfamilyroles
Many Adolescent
Girls Experience Headache, Stomachache, Back Pain and Fatigue
According to an
article in the August issue of The Archives of Pediatrics &
Adolescent Medicine, a theme issue on mental health, complaints
of headache, stomachache, back pain and morning fatigue are common
among United States adolescent girls.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-08/jaaj-mag080204.php
Blueprints for
Violence Prevention
The Office of Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) announces
the availability of two new publications on the OJJDP-funded Blueprints
for Violence Prevention initiative, which was developed by the Center
for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado-Boulder. After reviewing more than 600 violence prevention programs,
the initiative has identified 11 model and 21 promising programs
that prevent violence and drug use and treat youth with problem
behaviors.
"Blueprints
for Violence Prevention," a 180-page online Report, describes
the Blueprints initiative, presents lessons learned about program
implementation, and provides recommendations for those designing,
implementing, and funding violence prevention programs.
http://www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org/publications/PubAbstract.asp?pubi=11721
"Successful
Program Implementation: Lessons From Blueprints,"
a 12-page Bulletin, presents findings from a process evaluation
of Blueprints programs, identifying critical components of implementation.
http://www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org/publications/PubAbstract.asp?pubi=11719
Issues and Opportunities
in Out-of-School Time Evaluation
The Harvard Family
Research Project as released two new publications the latest briefs
in its "Issues and Opportunities in Out-of-School Time Evaluation"
series.
Brief number 6,
"Moving Beyond the Barriers: Attracting and Sustaining Youth Participation
in Out-of-School Time Programs," culls information from several
implementation and impact evaluations to develop a set of promising
strategies to attract and sustain youth participation in out-of-school
time (OST) programs.
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/afterschool/resources/issuebrief6.html
Brief number 7,
"Understanding and Measuring Attendance in Out-of-School Time
Programs," reviews developmental research and out-of-school
time program evaluations to examine three indicators of youth attendance
in OST programs -- intensity, duration, and breadth -- and offers
a few different models for how youth's attendance can influence
their outcomes.
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/afterschool/resources/issuebrief7.html
**Civic Engagement
Teens Care Who Will be Our Next President
According
to the results of the "State of Our Nation's Youth" report
issued by the Horatio Alger Association, "I care who wins"
is the statement coming from 70 percent of young people across the
country when asked about the upcoming Presidential election. Just
over 6 in 10 teens think the election's outcome will make a large
or fairly large difference in the country's direction regarding
the most important issues facing our nation. The "2004-2005 State of Our Nation's Youth"
report is a new comprehensive report based on a survey of 1,007
young people between the ages of 13 and 19 from across the United States. The report allows America's young people to convey
their thoughts and feelings on a wide range of personal and national
issues:
http://www.horatioalger.com/pubmat/surpro.cfm
**Education
New Poll of Kindergarten Teachers Shows Kids Without
Pre-K Unprepared for School
A
national poll of kindergarten teachers found that children who had
not had access to pre-kindergarten programs were substantially less
prepared to succeed in school than those who attended pre-kindergarten.
Eighty-six percent of the teachers said poorly prepared students
in the classroom negatively affect the progress of all children,
even the best prepared. Nine out of ten teachers agreed that "substantially
more" children would succeed in school if all families had
access to quality pre-kindergarten programs. The agreement rate
rose to nearly 100 percent among teachers with mostly poor, minority
children in their classes.
http://www.fightcrime.org/releases.php?id=101
Parents Key to
Adolescents' Success
According to a new
Duke University study of middle- and high-school students, those whose
parents are involved in their schooling have higher career and educational
goals. Parents' influence
on how their children think about the future and perform in school
continues through adolescence, according to the study, which followed
nearly 500 black and white children from seventh through 11th grades. Some previous research has indicated that parents'
involvement isn't that significant as children move into adolescence,
but this research shows that parents do matter, especially in adolescence,
when children decide whether or not they want to go to college and
begin thinking about employment options.
http://www.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/spew4th.pl?ascribeid=20040812.112202&time=12%2011%20PDT&year=2004&public=1
**Health
Kaiser/Harvard Survey: What
People on Medicare Think About the New Drug Law
According to a national
Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health survey
of people on Medicare nearly twice as many people on Medicare have
an unfavorable view of the new Medicare law than have a favorable
view. The survey of 1,223 people on Medicare finds that two out
of three say that lawmakers in Washington should work to fix problems in the law, while much smaller
numbers favor repealing the law or leaving the law alone.
http://www.kff.org/medicare/pomr081004pkg.cfm
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