Brief/Guide

This guide provides information about resources and strategies that families, child care providers, teachers, and others who come into contact with young children every day can use to help children

This policy framework offers four fundamental principles as a basis for the supports that all babies and toddlers in child care need.

This brief outlines research to make the case that state policies can promote the quality and continuity of early childhood experiences and positively impact the healthy growth and development

This toolkit is designed to educate tribal child welfare workers about the warning signs of suicide, risk and protective factors, suicide prevention and intervention methods, and when to seek profe

This policy brief examines recent indicators including youth attitudes about the dangers of drug use and youth disapproval rates that suggest that drug use among youth may be making a comeback.

This brief provides a concise overview of research relating electronic media to the health, social development, and educational outcomes of adolescents.

This paper identifies the challenges in practice and policy for successful post-school outcomes and it offers recommendations on how states, local school districts, and individual high schools can

This research brief analyzes data for more than 100,000 families from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health to find the similarities and contrasts between poor and more affluent families.

The Institute for Youth Development initiates programs and activities focused on youth development and youth risk behavior prevention, and provides resources for parents, youth workers, teachers, c

This report looked at the academic, behavioral, and emotional performance of youth involved in systems of care