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January 25, 2013 | Program Result Report
Experience Corps engages older volunteers to tutor - with a focus on reading - and mentor low-income kindergarten through third-grade students. It expanded and became an independent nonprofit organization.
September 1, 2004 | Journal Article
Membership in voluntary associations has declined but there is disagreement over the extent of the decline and whether it suggests a corresponding decrease in civic activity. This study investigates whether adolescents' participation in volunteer ac ...
March 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
The Points of Light Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization devoted to promoting volunteerism, organized a National Youth Summit in Orlando, Fla.
June 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
The Catholic Charities of Santa Fe trained 20 community volunteers to mentor 18 teens during their pregnancies, birthing and the first year of their babies' lives under a project called MentorMoms.
July 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
Legal intervention to protect the rights of children can be a necessary step in meeting their health needs.
December 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
Starting in 1999, Ribbon of Promise developed a grass-roots campaign against school violence. The campaign, also known as Ribbon of Promise or ROP, grew out of community response to a fatal school shooting in Springfield, Ore., in May 1998, which left two dead and 25 wounded.
June 1, 1999 | Program Result Report
On January 1, 1995, Chicago Youth Programs (CYP), in conjunction with Children's Memorial Hospital, became the third site of the Injury Free Coalition for Kids program.
January 1, 2011 | Toolkit
This manual outlines the training goals and the role of the Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Volunteer in Medical Advocacy. The primary goal for the CASA Medical Advocacy is to ensure that children receive regular well-care, dental care, and ...
October 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services, Raleigh, N.C., advanced its tobacco use prevention and control mission by establishing three youth-led tobacco use prevention centers across the state.
February 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
From 1998 to 2002, project staff at the Center for Health Communication at the Harvard School of Public Health mounted a national media campaign—the Harvard Mentoring Project—to recruit large numbers of qualified mentors to build supportive relationships with at-risk youth.