Funding for Children & Youth: Related Readings

Barriers and Promising Approaches to Workforce and Youth Development for Young Offenders
(Baltimore: Annie E. Casey Foundation)
http://www.aecf.org/publications/data/workforce_youth_dev.pdf
This toolkit from the Annie E. Casey Foundation was created to address three objectives: identify barriers to success in juvenile justice — both for the system and for the young people in it; survey innovative state and local policy initiatives; and showcase exemplary employment and development programs for court-involved youth. (160 pages, PDF)

Changing the Face of Giving: An Assessment of Youth Philanthropy
(Los Angeles: James Irvine Foundation)
http://www.irvine.org/pdfs/Youth_Philanthropy.pdf
Published by the James Irvine Foundation's Youth Leadership Institute, Changing the Face of Giving: An Assessment of Youth Philanthropy examines youth philanthropy as it is now being practiced and recommends future directions for the field. (52 pages, PDF)

Guidelines for the Development of Foster Care Handbooks: What Foster Youth Have to Say
(Washington, D.C.: Child Welfare League of America)
http://www.aecf.org/publications/data/overview_of_foster_care.pdf
Produced by the Child Welfare League of America, this booklet is designed to serve as a starting point for agencies interested in providing an informative guide that can help promote successful transitions for foster acre youth. (4 pages, PDF)

How to Strengthen Youth Serving Nonprofits? Experiences of the James Irvine Foundation's Youth Development Initiative
(Los Angeles: James Irvine Foundation)
http://www.irvine.org/pdfs/YDI_Report.pdf
A five-year, $4.3 million project of the James Irvine Foundation, the Youth Development Initiative sought to strengthen the management and organizational capacities of ten youth-serving nonprofits in both Fresno and Los Angeles. Intermediary organizations in both communities ran the program, helping the participating nonprofits plan and undergo assessments, arranging training, and providing technical assistance. The final report describes the initiative's approach to capacity building, highlighting stumbling blocks that emerged during the course of the project and drawing a number of lessons for similar capacity-building programs. (17 pages, PDF)

Injury Free Coalition for Kids: a Passion for Prevention
(Princeton, New Jersey: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
http://www.rwjf.org/publications/publicationsPdfs/report1.pdf
Lessons and techniques learned from eight Injury Prevention Program sites sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (30 pages, PDF)

Learning Outside the Lines
(Battle Creek, Michigan: W.K. Kellogg Foundation)
http://www.wkkf.org/pubs/YouthED/Pub3728.pdf
A publication from the Kellogg Foundation that examines six programs funded through its New Options for Youth Through Engaged Institutions initiative, which supports partnerships of communities and post-secondary institutions working to help vulnerable youth achieve higher levels of learning. (32 pages, PDF)

Overexposed: Youth a Target of Alcohol Advertising in Magazines (Washington, D.C.: Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth) http://www.pewtrusts.com/pdf/hhs_camy_exec_092402.pdf The Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth at Georgetown University monitors the marketing practices of the alcohol industry to focus attention and action on industry practices that jeopardize the health and safety of America's youth. This report, the first from the Center, finds that America's youth saw many more magazine ads for alcoholic beverages in 2001 than did people of legal drinking age. (20 pages, PDF)

Partnering with Parents to Promote the Healthy Development of Young Children Enrolled in Medicaid
(New York: Commonwealth Fund)
http://www.cmwf.org/programs/child/bethell_partnering_570.pdf
This survey of families with Medicaid-insured children reveals the need for continued efforts to bridge the gap between pediatric care guidelines and physician practice. According to the report, two of five parents expressed concerns about their infant or toddler's social, behavioral, or cognitive development, yet only one of five said his or her child had received the full range of preventive and developmental services recommended by pediatric care experts. (72 pages, PDF)

Protecting Children from Substance Abuse: Lessons from Free to Grow Head Start Partnerships
(Princeton, New Jersey: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/PDFs/protectchildren.pdf
In 1994, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation launched Free to Grow, an initiative that targets Head Start children with the goal of creating change to protect them from substance abuse and related problems in alter life. This evaluation of the Free to Grow pilot program focuses on five grantees and how they implemented the program in their communities. (8 pages, PDF)

The Multiple Dimensions of Child Abuse and Neglect: New Insights into an Old Problem
(Washington, D.C.: Child Trends)
http://www.childtrends.org/PDF/ChildAbuseRB.pdf
A research brief published by Child Trends, a nonprofit research organization dedicated to studying children, youth, and families through research, data collection, and data analyses. The report draws on available data and recent research studies to summarize what is known about the impact of child abuse and neglect in several critical areas: physical and mental health; cognitive and educational attainment; and social and behavioral development. (8 pages, PDF)

Worldwide Workshop on Youth Involvement as a Strategy for Social, Economic, and Democratic Development
(New York: Ford Foundation)
http://www.fordfound.org/publications/recent_articles/docs/youth.pdf
A summary of a 2001 conference in Costa Rica organized by the Ford Foundation to explore the reality of national and community service in countries around the world. Conference participants included Ford Foundation staff and representatives from fifteen fifteen countries. (119 pages, PDF)