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Creating a strong data collection plan involves both selecting appropriate measures to assess program outcomes and carefully considering how the data will be collected. Toward these aims, Child Trends has developed a set of recommended outcome measures that may be used in evaluations of healthy...
This text explores the impact of a teen birth on outcomes for mothers, fathers, and children, and attempts to identify whether the undesirable outcomes of teen pregnancy are attributable to the pregnancy itself or to the wider environment in which most of these pregnancies and the subsequent...
In 2002, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in the U.S. Department of Justice estimated that there are 1,682,900 homeless and runaway youth under eighteen years of age in the United States. Of this number, anywhere from 6 to 22% are pregnant. This means that there could...
The ability of young people to forge and sustain healthy relationships can affect almost every aspect of their lives--school and work success, physical and mental health, and the overall health and well-being of their own children. Helping young people thrive and overcome barriers to economic...
The first author recruited parent-adolescent dyads (N = 192) into after-school prevention education groups at middle schools in southeast Texas. This author placed participants in either (1) an Interactive Program (IP) in which they roleplayed, practiced resistance skills, and held parent-child...