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Vulnerable Youth and the Transition to Adulthood

Vulnerable Youth and the Transition to Adulthood: Youth from Distressed Neighborhoods

The transition to adulthood can be particularly challenging for youth growing up in distressed neighbor-hoods. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, this fact sheet compares the adolescent risk behaviors and young adult outcomes of youth from distressed neighborhoods with those of youth from non-distressed neighborhoods. [4 PDF pag
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Vulnerable Youth and the Transition to Adulthood

Vulnerable Youth and the Transition to Adulthood: Youth from Low-Income Families

Youth from low-income families are vulnerable to poor outcomes as adults, as these youth often lack the resources and opportunities found to lead to better outcomes. This fact sheet compares the young adult outcomes and adolescent risk-taking behaviors of youth from low-income families to those from middle-income (201-400 percent of federal povert
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Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent

Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Components of Relationship Strengths in Married Couple Families

The purpose of this research brief is to explain the relationship context of adolescents who live in married couple families. Specifically, the marital quality of the adolescents' biological parents (and step-parents) is assessed by examining how supportive and conflict behaviors combine within the couple relationship. How support and conflict o
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Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent

Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Effects on Sexual Activity Among Adolescents and Young Adults

The link between growing up outside of an intact family, and the likelihood of engaging in risky sexual behaviors as an adolescent has been explored extensively. But fewer studies examine the age of onset of sexual activity and the likelihood of risky sexual behaviors among adolescents within intact families, specifically married-parent families,
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Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Effects on Educational Outcomes for Youth

This research examines the effects of parental marital quality and the quality of the parent-child relationship on the educational progress of adolescents. Previous research indicates that family structure and economic capacity have significant effects on educational achievement and high school graduation rates. Few studies, however, have examin
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HHS Funding for Abstinence Education, Education

HHS Funding for Abstinence Education, Education for Teen Pregnancy and HIV/STD Prevention, and Other Programs that Address Adolescent Sexual Activity

The report presents a detailed breakdown comparing Departmental funding for abstinence education, adhering to the A-H definition, with other Departmental funding used to prevent unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections. [19 PDF pages]
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Exploring Community Responses to Statutory Rape

Exploring Community Responses to Statutory Rape

This report summarizes nine case studies by The Lewin Group that explore how states and communities are responding to statutory rape. Exploratory site visits suggest that addressing and preventing these unequal partnerships is difficult to accomplish by any single program or governmental agency. Instead, a range of service providers and governmen
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Pathways to Adulthood and Marriage: Teenagers

Pathways to Adulthood and Marriage: Teenagers' Attitudes, Expectations, and Relationship Patterns

This report examines potential precursors of the changes in adult marriage patterns in recent decades. It draws on data from four large national surveys to examine the experiences and attitudes of teenagers to gain a better understanding of factors that influence their views of marriage and their relationship choices in adulthood. The report analy
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Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and

Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and Reporting Requirements

This report is a compilation of state laws and reporting requirements. It provides an overview of state statutory rape laws and reporting requirements, as well as a summary of laws for each state and the District of Columbia. It is designed to provide useful information to state and federal policymakers who are interested in how state statutes add
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What Challenges Are Boys Facing, and What

What Challenges Are Boys Facing, and What Opportunities Exist to Address Those Challenges? Annotated Bibliography

The Annotated Bibliography is the result of a comprehensive review of literature on the strengths and challenges that affect boys ages 10 through 18. It provides evidence-based work that highlights the challenges boys face and investigates what strengths, such as the positive impact that caring adults in families, schools, and communities, can
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What Challenges Are Boys Facing, and What

What Challenges Are Boys Facing, and What Opportunities Exist to Address Those Challenges? Initial Findings Brief

This brief gathers and synthesizes statistics and research related to risks for boys across multiple domains, identifies successful interventions, and offers concrete suggestions for how caring community members can help support boys in their adolescence and as they transition to adulthood. Research on mortality and victimization; delinquency an
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Addressing the Needs of Victims of Human

Addressing the Needs of Victims of Human Trafficking: Challenges, Barriers, and Promising Practices

This Issue Brief focuses on the multiple service needs of victims of human trafficking and the services available to meet those needs. Additionally, it discusses challenges and barriers to providing services to victims, international and domestic, adults and minors, and highlights innovative solutions to these challenges and promising practices t
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Case Management and the Victim of Human

Case Management and the Victim of Human Trafficking: A Critical Service for Client Success

This Issue Brief focuses on the importance of case management in working with international victims of human trafficking from the point of identification until a victim reaches self-sufficiency. This brief looks at the characteristics of an effective case manager along with the benefits not only to victims, but also other key stakeholders includin
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Coming of Age: Employment Outcomes for Youth Who

Coming of Age: Employment Outcomes for Youth Who Age Out of Foster Care Through Their Middle Twenties

A primary task for youth in transitioning to adulthood is sustaining employment to be self-sufficient. Studies of former youth who age out of foster care find that they generally experience unstable employment patterns and earn very low incomes between ages 18 and 20. However, less is known about whether these youths' initial patterns of employm
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Treating the Hidden Wounds: Trauma Treatment and

Treating the Hidden Wounds: Trauma Treatment and Mental Health Recovery for Victims of Human Trafficking

This Issue Brief focuses on the trauma experienced by most trafficking victims, its impact on health and well-being, some of the challenges to meeting trauma-related needs of trafficking victims, and promising approaches to treatment and recovery. While this issue brief touches on trauma across human trafficking populations, it has a special emph
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Identifying Victims of Human Trafficking:

Identifying Victims of Human Trafficking: Inherent Challenges and Promising Strategies From the Field

This Issue Brief focuses on the identification of international and domestic victims of human trafficking in the U.S, looking at the various challenges as well as promising practices to identifying this population. The brief looks at these issues from a broad perspective and has implications for a broad range of organizations and people (e.g., hea
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Finding a Path to Recovery: Residential

Finding a Path to Recovery: Residential Facilities for Minor Victims of Domestic Sex Trafficking

This issue brief focuses on minors who are victimized by sex traffickers across the U. S. and is intended to provide practical information about the characteristics and needs of these minors and describe the type of residential programs and facilities currently providing services for this population.
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Impacts of Four Title V, Section 510 Abstinence

Impacts of Four Title V, Section 510 Abstinence Education Programs

This report presents the behavioral impact findings of four Title V, Section 510 abstinence education programs on teens' sexual abstinence, their risks of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, and other behavioral outcomes. The report is based on survey data collected four to six years after study enrollment from more than 2,000 teens who
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First Year Impacts of the Heritage Keepers Life

First Year Impacts of the Heritage Keepers Life Skills Education Component

This report is part of the larger evaluation of a select group of Title V, Section 510, abstinence programs. This report examines the short-term impacts of providing a life skills education component to middle and high school youth in Edgefield, South Carolina. All the youth participating in the Life Skills Education Component have also participat
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Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs:

Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting

Maternity Group Homes offer an innovative and intensive approach to addressing the needs of teenage mothers and their children. ASPE contracted with MPR to conduct a study of how these programs operate and to explore options for studying them further. This report documents the implementation of maternity group homes in seven sites.
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