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October 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
Audubon Area Community Services in Owensboro, Ky., planned and implemented a Free to Grow model that reduced risks for substance abuse by combining grassroots community action with intensive case management for high-risk families.
December 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Adolescents benefit from having a friend whose parents are authoritative, even if their own are not.
National Program
Program to support a three-city demonstration project designed to connect at-risk urban youth with responsible adults in activities after school.
November 18, 2009 | Program Result Report
Whatever the age, interests and neighborhood, young people and their parents now have an easy way to find out about these, through the Boston Out-of-School Time Navigator.
November 18, 2009 | Program Result Report
Boston After School & Beyond brought key players from the public and private sectors together to coordinate after-school programming.
February 1, 2013 | Journal Article
This commentary praises the detailed work of the article “Food Companies’ Calorie-Reduction Pledges to Improve U.S. Diet," which describes the independent evaluation of the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation (HWCF) pledge to remove 1.5 trillion calories a year from the marketplace by the end of 2015.
August 28, 2008 | Program Result Report
After School helped develop intermediary organizations in Boston, Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area in order to create citywide systems of after-school programs.
August 28, 2008 | Program Result Report
Young Achievers is one of 11 pilot public schools in Boston that are intended to serve as laboratories for educational innovation and models for other urban public schools. It runs from kindergarten through eighth grade.
April 11, 2012 | Program Result Report
Communities Creating Healthy Environments aims to curb childhood obesity in communities of color by using community organizing for social justice to advocate for policy changes color. Read this report on its progress.
September 1, 2007 | Program Result Report
Children Now hosted "The Future of Children's Media: Advertising." The conference took place in Washington and brought together the nation's leading policy-makers, academics, media executives and advocates.