Young People Content Topic Results
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January 2010
The Needs of Children in Domestic Violence Shelters
Publisher(s):This toolkit for service providers is a teaching tool and guide for understanding how trauma from domestic violence impacts children and how best to serve these children's needs. Although it was designed for use by shelter-based and other domestic violence direct service providers in North Carolina, it has broad applicability.
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- General Material
January 2010
Emerging Issues Facing Tweens and Teens
Publisher(s):This fact sheet presents data from various studies to highlight emerging issues facing tweens and teens.
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- General Material
January 2010
The Connection between Dating Violence and Unhealthy Behaviors
Publisher(s):This fact sheet presents data from various studies to show the connection between dating violence and unhealthy behaviors.
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- General Material
December 2009
Teens and Sexting: How and why minor teens are sending sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images via text messaging
Publisher(s):This report addresses sexting and the creating, sharing and forwarding of sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images by minor teens.
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- General Material
December 2009
Juveniles Who Commit Sex Offenses Against Minors
Publisher(s):This Bulletin draws on data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's National Incident-Based Reporting System to provide population-based epidemiological information on juvenile sex offending.
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- General Material
October 2009
Children's Exposure to Violence: A Comprehensive National Survey
Publisher(s):This Bulletin discusses the most comprehensive nationwide survey of the incidence and prevalence of children’s exposure to violence to date, measuring the past-year and lifetime exposure for children age 17 and younger across several major categories.
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- General Material
September 2009
Girls Do What They Have to Do to Survive: Illuminating Methods Used by Girls in the Sex Trade and Street Economy to Fight Back and Heal
Publisher(s): This participatory action research study by the Young Women's Empowerment Project, a social justice organizing project led by and for young people of color who have current or former experience in the sex trade and street economies, addresses the violence that girls in sex trade and street economies face, as well as their resilience and resistance methods.
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- General Material
August 2009
Moving From Them to Us: Challenges in Reframing Violence Among Youth
Publisher(s):This paper explores how youth and violence have been framed in the media, how the issue of race complicates depictions of youth and violence, and how public attitudes about government can inhibit public support for strategies to effectively prevent violence. Commissioned by UNITY/Prevention Institute and written by the Berkeley Media Studies Group, this paper makes recommendations for the next steps in reframing violence among youth.
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- General Material
July 2009
Safety Planning With Teens, Issue Brief No. 5
Publisher(s): This issue brief provides advocates with information on how to safety plan with a teen, including discussing teen safety plan specifics.
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- General Material
July 2009
Teen Pregnancy, Parenting, And Dating Violence
Publisher(s): This issue brief discusses the link between dating violence and pregnancy among teens and provides guidance for screening and responding to pregnant teens in violent relationships.
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- General Material
July 2009
The Myth of Mutuality, Issue Brief No. 6
Publisher(s):Identifying the predominant aggressor and the victim is necessary to understand what happened in a given incident and in the history of the relationship and is also important in allowing you to provide the best possible resources to the teens.
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- General Material
May 2009
The National Report on Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: America's Prostituted Children
Publisher(s):The report reveals shocking findings of three years of intensive research on the issue of child sex trafficking in America from ten locations across the U.S.& Research locations ranged from areas as diverse as Salt Lake City, Utah to Clearwater, Florida and Las Vegas, Nevada. Some important key findings include: