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Youth Publications

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Positive Youth Development and Civic Engagement

• Let's Get Together - March 2007
• Children Should be Seen and Heard - March 2007
• Engaging Young People in Legislatures - LegisBrief, January 2006
• Strengthening Youth Policy -  Issue Brief, 2005
• What is Positive Youth Development? - February 2004

Youth at Risk

• New Ways to Address Truancy -  LegisBrief, February 2007
• School Violence: What Works to Keep Schools Safe - July 2001
• School Violence: Tackling the Schoolyard Bully: Combining Policymaking With Prevention - July 2003
• Out of Lock up, Now What? -December 2003
• Addressing Truancy, Preventing Delinquency - Legisbrief, June/July 2003
• Disproportionate Minority Representation in the Juvenile Justice System - Legisbrief, June/July 2001
• Mental Health Needs of Juvenile Offenders - Legisbrief, Aug/Sept. 2000
• Children Exposed to Violence - Legisbrief, April/May 2000
• Comprehensive Juvenile Justice: A Legislator's Guide - 1999

Youth in Transition

• Out of Lock Up, Now What? - December 2003
• Educating Children in Foster Care: An Emerging Policy Issue - December 2003
• Independent Living for Foster Youth - February 2002

Youth Violence

• Tackling the Schoolyard Bully: Combining Policymaking With Prevention - July 2003
• School Violence: 10 Things Legislators Need to Know - February 2000
• School Violence: Sharing Student Information - October 2001
• School Violence: What Works to Keep Schools Safe - July 2001

Out-of-School-Time Programs

• Access and Equity in Out-of-School-Time Programs - August 2003
• States & New Federal 21st Century Funds - March 2002
• Out of School and Out of Trouble - May 2001

For more information regarding youth issues, please contact Stephanie Walton in the Denver office at 303.364.7700 or cyf-info@ncsl.org or either Sheri Steisel or Lee Posey in the D.C. office at 202.624.5400 or fedhumserv-info@ncsl.org.

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