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Ready by 21 Quality Counts Initiative Focused on Out-of-School-Time Services for Youth

March 18, 2011 | Program Result

The Ready by 21 Quality Counts Initiative, an initiative of the Forum for Youth Investment, helped communities improve the quality and reach of their out-of-school-time services for youth.

Multi-State "Best Friends" Program Addresses Risky Behaviors Among Teenage Girls

May 1, 2005 | Program Result

The Best Friends Foundation developed and implemented a youth development program for girls in grades 6 to 12 with the message that they should wait until marriage to begin sexual relations and abstain from drinking, smoking and using illegal drugs.

Stopping Teen Dating Violence in New Jersey with Safe Dates

June 20, 2012 | Program Result

From 2008 to 2011, eight projects implemented Safe Dates, a dating abuse prevention program, in middle and high schools through New Jersey Health Initiatives, which supports projects that improve the health and health care of state residents.

Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships

National Program

Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships is an innovative approach to preventing teen dating violence and abuse by teaching 11 to 4 year-olds about healthy relationships.

Celebrate Fitness!

March 15, 2011 | Program Result

The United National Indian Tribal Youth (UNITY) and members of nine Indian youth councils designed and implemented Celebrate Fitness!, a youth-led program of activities aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles among Native Americans.

Helping High-Risk Young Men Learn and Practice the Skills They Need to Get a Job and Stay Employed

August 19, 2010 | Program Result

Roca, a 22-year-old youth development organization in Chelsea, Mass., launched the Young Men's Violence Intervention Project in four Massachusetts' communities it provides intensive and repeated efforts to influence their behavior.

You Have to Give Her That Confidence - Conversations about Sex in Hispanic Mother-Daughter Dyads

February 28, 2006 | Journal Article

The study sample was comprised of 10 mother-daughter dyads and four additional individuals.

Tennis, Everyone?

June 1, 2004 | Program Result

The Washington Tennis & Education Foundation expanded its programming to introduce at-risk inner city children to health-promoting behaviors such as good nutrition, physical conditioning and avoidance of drugs and alcohol.

Center Goes National to Solve Children's Health Issues, But Ends Up Local

August 1, 2003 | Program Result

The leadership of the Task Force for Child Survival and Development planned and implemented a national center to provide the public and policy-makers with science-based information on child health and development issues.

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.

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