If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Youth violence is a public health crisis in the United States. Based on the most recent statistics, approximately 20 percent of high school students report being bullied at school, and over 30 percent report being in a physical fight. Homicide is the second leading cause of death of young people, with an average of 16 youth...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The nation’s urban service systems for children and families often struggle with conflicting goals, inadequate resources, and intense but temporary public attention during turmoil and tragedies. This forum will examine the many challenges of systems reform -- through the lenses of education, health care and child welfare -- and...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. State agencies finance and administer a range of services -- from foster care for abused and neglected children to prisons to long-term care of the elderly. How can large public agencies and small community organizations plan better to meet the needs of the people they serve? Traditionally, useful and timely data for planning...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. One important provision of the 2008 Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act extended federal support for keeping foster youth in care until age 21. The goal is to improve educational and health-related outcomes. This extension of care has significant implications for service providers as they plan...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. One important provision of the 2008 Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act extended federal support for keeping foster youth in care until age 21. The goal is to improve educational and health-related outcomes. This extension of care has significant implications for service providers as they plan...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. On the horizon is a push to monitor outcomes for children and youth across the systems that serve them, including education, child welfare, and healthcare. With healthcare reforms and changes to the No Child Left Behind Act looming, and as state child welfare agencies strive to comply with federal requirements, ideas and insights...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. America's teen pregnancy rate is among the highest in the developed world, despite consistent declines over the past 15 years. Advances here might be ending, however: the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the rate of teen childbearing increased 3 percent between 2005 and 2006, the first uptick since 1990....

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Soon after the new administration begins governing in January, it is expected to propose an ambitious, multipronged urban policy that includes both housing and community-development activities, and the establishment of "Promise Neighborhoods" that provide networks of community-based diversified services for low-income children...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Coauthors of the new book "Child Protection: Using Research to Improve Policy and Practice" talk about research in the first nationally representative data sample of children in the child welfare system. Results indicate the most effective ways to help both children and parents in the system.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. As we explored in our May forum, Americans across the political spectrum embrace universal early childhood education. But what about school-success initiatives that reach back even further to support newborns, toddlers, and their parents? What can be achieved when educators, abuse-prevention experts, parents, government...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Coauthors of the new book "Child Protection: Using Research to Improve Policy and Practice" talk about research in the first nationally representative data sample of children in the child welfare system. Results indicate the most effective ways to help both children and parents in the system.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. As we explored in our May forum, Americans across the political spectrum embrace universal early childhood education. But what about school-success initiatives that reach back even further to support newborns, toddlers, and their parents? What can be achieved when educators, abuse-prevention experts, parents, government...