Children and Child Development

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Together for a Better Education (Juntos para una mejor educación) Program

The “Juntos” program (pronounced: Who-n-tos) provides Latino parents and youth with knowledge and resources to prevent 8-12th grade students from dropping out and to encourage families to work together to gain access to college. This experiential program is taught in either English or Spanish and meets for 2½ hours once a week for six weeks in the evenings. Juntos also uses success coaches and college age-mentors to provide weekly afterschool clubs and activities with the target students before and after the 6-week program. The program brings together partners from Cooperative Extension, high schools and local community colleges, youth and their families, and college-age mentors to learn how to succeed in school.

from Opportunity in America

Opportunity in America: The Disadvantages Start at Conception

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from The WIC Program

Effects of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC): A Review of Recent Research

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Sarah O. Meadows, Ph.D., RAND Corporation

from Family Focus on Military Families

Military families: What we know and what we don’t know

by Sarah O. Meadows, Ph.D., RAND Corporation

Today’s soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, and Coast Guard members have faced unprecedented stresses. Based on reinvigorated research into this unique population, this piece provides the reader with a taste of what we know, and what we don’t, about military families.

Drug Facts: Shatter the Myths Booklet

How does underage drinking correlate with adult alcoholism? What preventable problem injures 1900 U.S. teens per year? Which prescription pain medications were involved in more overdose deaths than heroin and cocaine combined? The National Institute on Drug Abuse in the U.S. answers these questions and more in a free online booklet in PDF format called "Drug Facts: Shatter the Myths"

Head Start Children, Families, and Programs: Present and Past Data from FACES

Using data from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES), this report for the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides a portrait of children entering Head Start for the first time in fall 2009, as well as of their family backgrounds, and the classrooms and programs that serve them. The report also offers comparisons across the past decade of the Head Start program to delineate trends and changes in the population served and the services provided.

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Military Family Bibliography

This resource list contains 24 categories with references specific to military culture, the military community, deployment & reintegration, military families, children, interventions, relationships, and trauma, The list was complied in support of educators, counselors, social workers, the military and civilian communities who support our armed forces.