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Promoting the Health and Stability of Young Black and Latino Males in Harlem

October 8, 2010 | Program Result

The Brotherhood/Sister Sol delivered a comprehensive array of services designed to promote the health and stability of young Black and Latino males in the Harlem neighborhoods of New York City.

Growing Experience Corps

January 25, 2013 | Program Result

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.

Child Advocacy Group Makes Case that Youth Programs Reduce Crime

March 1, 2004 | Program Result

Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, a national, non-profit child advocacy organization, conducted an educational campaign to increase policymakers' awareness of the value of publicly funded programs to strengthen youth and fragile families.

Foiling Drugs, Olympic Medalist Uses Fencing to Make a Point to Urban Youth

August 1, 2000 | Program Result

The Peter Westbrook Foundation, a non-profit organization, enhanced its program to enrich the lives of New York City's youth through the sport of fencing.

Mentoring Young People

January 1, 2008 | Book

This chapter examines the research on mentoring and Foundation-funded programs that encourage it.

An Overlooked Group in the Fight to Prevent Teen Pregnancy

October 1, 2002 | Program Result

East Side House, Inc., a social services agency in the Bronx, N.Y., replicated its Community-Based Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program, developed in 1997 in collaboration with Planned Parenthood of New York City.

New Nonprofit Entity Manages Mental Health Services for Youth in New York

June 1, 2001 | Program Result

Starting in January 1996, the Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Albany, N.Y. developed a method — through the education, social services, juvenile justice, and mental health systems — to purchase and manage individualized services for seriously emotionally disturbed children and adolescents to divert them from unnecessary placements and hospitalizations.

What are the Ethical Implications of Drug Use? Teens Tackle Tricky Questions

April 30, 2000 | Program Result

The Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York, sponsored a 1998 conference "Teen Leadership Institute on Drug Issues."

Chicago Mental Health Center Uses Proyecto HEAL Model to Enhance Its Youth Leadership Program

July 1, 1999 | Program Result

The Pilsen-Little Village Community Mental Health Center developed and implemented community-based interventions that would address sociocultural barriers to health care for Hispanic Americans in Chicago's Near South/West Side.

Community Policing Helps Reduce Youth Violence

August 1, 2000 | Program Result

Harvard Law School directed five case studies of four cities that have made significant efforts to reduce youth violence or reform the juvenile justice system.

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