Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan met with the National Council of Young Leaders, a new established group of young people who advise policy makers on how issues affect low-income youth and their communities.
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Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan met with the National Council of Young Leaders, a new established group of young people who advise policy makers on how issues affect low-income youth and their communities.
Abstracts will be considered for the following conference tracks: program delivery and improvement, organizational capacity, findings from the field, and evaluation.
Data from the 1991-2011 Youth Risk Behavior Surveys show that the percentage of teens in high school who drove after they had been drinking alcohol decreased by 54% between those years.
Homelessness is a major social concern in the United States, and youth may be the age group most at risk of becoming homeless. The number of youth who have experienced homelessness varies depending on the age range, timeframe, and definition used, but sources estimate that between 500,000 and 2....
Substance abuse and problematic patterns of substance use among youth can lead to problems at school, cause or aggravate health-related issues including mental health, promote poor peer relationships, motor-vehicle accidents, and place stress on the family. It can also advance to lifelong issues...
The Promise Neighborhoods program is a place-based approach focused on addressing generational family and community poverty by ensuring quality educational opportunities and providing a range of supports for children, youth, families, and communities.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) partners with the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Office of Military Community and Family Policy (MC&FP) and the Army, Navy, and Air Force to support military-connected children and youth, and to ensure that service members are able to focus on...
This section provides links to reliable federal data on youth topics. Use it to deepen your understanding of youth issues and strengthen your efforts to improve youth outcomes.
FindYouthInfo.gov is the U.S. government Web site that helps you create, maintain, and strengthen effective youth programs. Included are youth facts, funding information, and tools to help you assess community assets, generate maps of local and federal resources, search for evidence-based youth programs, and keep up-to-date on the latest, youth-related news.