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Aids/HIV
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Child abuse
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Confinement
Crime
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Education
Families and mentoring
Foster care
Gangs
Giving Evidence
Interventions
Juvenile justice
Medical/Mental disorders
People
Poverty
Programs for youth
Reports and studies
Residential care
Runaways
Sexuality
Street children/homeless
Suicide
Surveys and conferences
Transitions
Violence
War
Working with young sex offenders: three articles by Grant Charles and Jennifer Collins
Work with Girls
Youth hostels and orphanages
Youth Care Organizations and workers
Miscellaneous

Addictions and drugs

Learning the hard way how to beat drugs
Ode to recovery
Cannabis crackdown 'makes little difference'
UK: Mental illnesses up since cannabis downgrade
Adolescents: Alcohol in Austria and across Europe
Ireland: A rethink on drugs strategy
Drug-abusing celebrities set negative example
Scotland's youth cocaine crisis
UK worst in EU on child drug abuse
Why Drug Education Doesn't Work
Dealing with Druggies
Healing Abusers
Anti-drug's 21 points for parents and caregivers
New Tactic in War on Drugs
The war on drugs
Skill not pills
Hawaii: Drug courts offer rehabilitation
We need a war on legal drugs
Joints replace fags in the playground
Child solvent abuse ‘forgotten'
O Canada, O cannabis
Huffing an easy high for youngsters
Kenya: Increasing drug abuse
Times up for helping teens
Anti-drug campaign conducted
Cough suppressant use in American children rises
Parents see no end to substance abuse
Testing kids for drugs
Ecstasy teen's torment revealed
Saving young from legacy of addiction
Shock tactics aimed at encouraging informants
Dealing with the grim impact of heroin
Addiction breakers
Crack cocaine crime plague
Why it's not prime time for crime
UK: Child solvent abuse 'on increase'
Warning to heroin smokers
Alliance creates state-level methamphetamine model
Addicts children to come first
Helping meth's children
Ex-drug czar shares findings
Child's view of meth abuse

ADHD

Hyperactivity a result of poor parenting?
Kids caught in Ritalin crossfire
U.S. needs to get over ADD/ADHD
Attention disorder care gets a hard look
LA: Children rushed into foster care
Adoptions don't always pan out
Foster children suffer abuse
Conference focuses on foster care
Foster kids low achievers
Foster parents screening flaws
A grim burden – faults of foster care
Pawns of the system: "Aging out"
Horror story sparks foster review
Scotland: Fast-track panels ‘biased’
Study suggests ways to help foster kids
Romania and adoption ban
Human cost of foster care
The unfair foster care system
Reforming foster care
Foster care is un-American
Former foster youth have more resources for assistance, but many unaware
Growing out of foster care is as hard as growing up in it
Caught in a tangle of adoption laws, children suffer
Answering “Who am I?” can be a long complicated journey
'I feel like this is my home'
Hardship for children after foster care
Study urges end to residential care for young children
Study: Foster youth hurt by early exits
Cincinnati children's hospital launches program for foster children
One child, one therapist
New law a lifesaver for foster kids
Hard to keep foster families
No home to go to

 Aids/HIV

Religious leaders join hands to act on Aids
Aids and Hunger in Africa
Educating Children about HIV/Aids
HIV/Aids Devastation in Malawi and Zimbabwe
Barcelona aids conference 1
Barcelona aids conference 2
Barcelona aids conference 3
Barcelona aids conference 4
Barcelona aids conference 5
Children and AIDS
Aids orphans in the spotlight
Street children vulnerable to aids
Zimbabwe in denial over teen AIDS pregnancy risks
Myths and realities about children and HIV/AIDS
Orphans and vulnerable children: The missing point in the fight against HIV/ Aids in Africa
Youthful fatalism “shocking”
Governments, donors must recognise the role  of religious groups in caring for vulnerable children
Mozambique: preventing history from repeating itself
Aids leaves 9 million African children without mothers
Aids: children raising children
Malawi - children raising children
Lesotho - aids orphans abandoned to die alone

Behaviour

Disorders are more likely in adopted teenagers
New therapy scheme could help young offenders
Deviancy training among friends
Anger, that's so uncool
Unruly youths face new crackdown
Family counsel: art therapy
Teens shunning risky behaviour
De-escalating student behaviour

Caregivers

Take a shot at this
Jobs plight of carers
Care for caregivers

Child abuse

Abuse: A nasty truth
More parent and community involvement needed
Child abuse 'New Zealand's dark side'

Children and youth

Only doesn't mean lonely
Curfew tames feral yobs of Cornwall
Court backs violent games in landmark ruling 
Making the 'scary, fantastic' future
UK: Let children play outdoors again?
Policy makers urged to listen to children
Johann Hari: Over-parenting is the curse of our time
Teens and technology
Teen party sets new standards
Raising our sons differently
Helping kids beat bullies
Labrador: A national spectacle
Hopeless, helpless and hooked. Our lost generation.
Affirming children
Arab youth need positive  images
A country focuses on adolescents
The first years last forever
Canada: Help more and criticize less
China child policy yields me-generation
Katimavik youths coming to hope
Australia: Failing youngsters
Challenges Pakistan youth face
Australia: System fails children
Suffer little children
Japan's missing teenagers
Children no longer hunger victims
New rite of passage – gambling
New England: The high cost of teen angst
Celebrity is religion for today's youth
China meets challenges in child care
Unicef: Race to raise child welfare
Adult-oriented culture exploits children
Kids and laws
Children in other countries
The cost of wasted youth
Youth curfews
Some children just turn out that way...
Youth's right to be recognized
Struggle for survival
South Africans must value children
Practice of exclusion rampant among teens
Dropouts have their reasons
Rich city, poor kids
Australia: Transition debate
NZ: Youth justice conference
Africa's children's day 16 June focus on street kids
Welcome help for kids without homes
Mall kids
An advocate for children in crisis
Young Germans and their vices
Why adults still matter to teenagers
When parents are too hands on
Teenagers behaviour worsening
Asset building helps children
Report criticizes the way Maryland treats troubled youth
'Battery-reared children miss out on play
Bullying: take a stand to stop it
Family support key for stopping abuse
Inside the chat rooms
Children silent over bullying
Children stay poor in post communist boom
Disabled children at regular schools: inclusion isn't easy
Do we worry to much about the safety of our children?
Education gap of care children
How sport can help children with life lessons
Survey claims children in care miss out
Youth justice conference: confidence in justice
The power of prevention, the power of one
Britain violates rights of child says UN
'A lot of work ahead to combat bullying
State of the world's children
Kids talk, adults listen about underage drinking
Children who can't cook ... can't sew ... can't save
Child poverty as bad today as it was a century ago, says charity
Global youth jobless rate a warning
Starting the young
Confront problem but don't encourage hitting
The fight over video game content
Young people's stress
Germany's forgotten children
Australia: $3m to break bully's power
Boys or girls – pick your victim
Class of '04 consumed by worries
New hope for children who lost everything
Troubled youth find ear on-line
Adults to blame for children's behaviour
Children need more adult attention
Listen to the children
Parents and children lose the art of conversation

Confinement

Facility changes its ways
Detention centre crisis forces juveniles into adult jails
Island of last resort
Problem students in pipeline to prison
UK: £460million price of kid yobs
Ohio settles lawsuit over youth prisons
India: Juvenile delinquents treated harshly
How safe are Ohio's juvenile detention centers?
Anne Owers, UK Inspector of Prisons, speaks out
Editorial comment: A less punitive future
An unlikely path to hope behind bars
Teens in prison
Did bootcamp guards do job or cross line?
Privately run lock up closure raises questions
How Prison Damages Children
Children in Mexican Jails
Confined Teens
Prison Gangs
Sad state of youth prisons
Australia's privately run prisons
Youth prison numbers fall
Canada: Fewer youth jailed
Restorative Justice
At Risk Youth Industry
Juvenile justice – a model for the nation
Prison inspector denounces treatment of children
Juvenile jails and treatment
Treatment of offenders must change
Why Blair won't admit that prison doesn't work
Prison is no place for children
Trauma among delinquents
Critical connections
Behind the razor wire with Britain's lost generation
Indiana youth doing good things while in detention
Teens suit cites strip-search shame
Not many bars but youth facility still jail
'Chemical cosh' threat to violent pupils
Nightmares in the nursery
Boy, 11, confined to his own street
Conditions in young offenders institutions
Plea to reduce child inmates follows a spate of jail suicides
New science played a key role in decision banning juvenile executions
Study says treating youthful offenders as adults makes it more likely that they will re-offend
Prison for troubled girls has woes of its own
Plan would ban workers from sitting on children as a restraint
“Two wrongs don't make it right”
Therapy and education focus of Governor's CYA rehabilitation plan
New correctional program designed to make CYA more effective
Brazil teen prisoners despair amid crowding, violence
Fiji: Hughes helps young felons
Exploring alternatives to youth custody
Connecticut: Suicide of inmate, 17, stirs action
Alternative to jail for kids in US system
Youth prison update sought
The jailing of children brings trauma and abuse
Benign neglect leaves youth inmates in squalor
Youth jails - the use of force a last resort
Dads in prison connect with kids

Crime

New Zealand: Interview with criminologist John Buttle
UK: Mixed reaction to new youth crime plan
New police initiative sees return of the village bobby
Why tough talk on knife crime is not the answer
Youth criminals to carry out community service at weekends
PA youth crime prevention efforts produce major results
Of shame and sentences
Key report says Labour has failed on youth crime
Why are girls committing more crime?
Texas pipeline to youth prison
Stop reoffending
Too young to be a criminal?
New Zealands' Youngest Killer
Slain Child and Youth Care Worker Loved her Job
People comment on Crime
Crimes Committed by Men
Tough Love or Tough Luck
Stealing
Surprise
Wayward Youths
Youth offenders in NZ.
Trends to tackle youth crime
Should it be a crime to hit a child
Teenagers that taunt the weak
Migrating gang culture
Juvenile offenders get a second chance
Japan: Youth crime is our own problem
Falling crime rate belies tough talk
Crime in one country
Preteen crime wave
Difficult to predict behavior
Australia: Our child outlaws
Reducing youth offending programme
Youth-on-youth crime
Newly trained social workers expand victim awareness program for juvenile crime
Bill brings discretion to offenders list
Three fourths of wards released over 13 years held on new charges
The new science of fighting crime
Next phase of Social Workers in schools roll out
Crime under the spotlight at Victoria
When children kill
How children pay the price when mothers are jailed
Younger and younger
Rebuilding normalcy at Red Lake
Crack cocaine crime plague
Why it's not prime time for crime
Russia's children in cycle of crime
'We want our children to be innocent, and when they're not, we turn them into monsters'
Delinquent youth far more likely to die and die violently than youth in the general population
Urgent prevention better than cure for serious youth offenders
Neighbourhoods suffer as yobs let off
At risk birth register possible solution to crime
Anything but child's play
Help break circle of crime

Discipline

If victims are victors and consequences real, then bullying will stop
Smacking is deep rooted
Cop who spanked gets punished
Smacking children
Physical punishment a health risk for children
Can we stop kids behaving badly
Education chiefs back film hero to improve discipline
Brockton's struggle to keep kids in school requires truant officer to blend vigilance, sympathy
Punishment is no answer to unruly pupils, says UK advisor
Unicef finds 43 types of punishment in schools
Monsters in the making
Parents vs. children: Families in crisis
Bully for them
Neighbourhoods suffer as yobs let off
More effort urged to stop bullying
Pilot project designed to stop bullying
Adults to blame for children's behaviour
Children's groups warn punishment not a panacea
Suffer the children
Child expert wants smacking banned

Education

More collaborative strategies urged to address social ills linked to illiteracy
Rethinking early adolescence
The school for the pupils no-one wants
How to stop your child being a truant
Study: Poor kids lag badly in school
UK: It's time to fight back against bullies
Help from 'corporate parents'
Reward those who dare to try
Michael Hart: How Ofsted is embracing social care
Students stand up to bullying
Class Room Assistants
Early Learning Begets Later Learning
Containment as a therapeutic tool
Art to soothe youth
Principal defends tough response
Education and employment issues
Helping families can help protect kids too
Iowa seeks ideas on new program
Listening to others
Anti-social scheme 'lacking support'
Nigeria: Problem of girl-child education
Nigeria: Challenges of the girl-child
Scotland: Dealing with truancy
Teacher of autistic kids looks for 'key'
Teach our children virtues...
Higher aims for gifted underachievers
Separating the sexes
Caught cheating
Education reform gets mixed review
Potential dropouts get extra help
Bullying image of boarding schools is false, finds survey
Students learn harsh realities of life on the streets
Inspection cuts put children in danger warns union
Classroom revolution as chess puts a check on unruly behaviour
Youth workers help to provide key skills
How war game is a real lesson in life
Special residential schools in progress
Restore pleasure of reading for the young
New typeface to help dyslexic children learn
Homophobic abuse drives many pupils out of education, researchers say
'We want our children to be innocent, and when they're not, we turn them into monsters'
'Super-nurseries' to build up support for deprived children
Take TV out of child's bedroom, parents are told
Juvenile drug court graduates 3 teens
Duluth middle schools will get lessons on respect
Students to work with disadvantaged children on trip to Belize
Scots schools bridging class divide
Book program helps troubled teens

Families and mentoring

Father's Day: Two viewpoints
Nebraska's family plan
Growing up in a world without fathers
Counselling for birthparents of looked after children
The looming clash of generations
Daddy's little girl
Child friendly English scutinised
Separating without tearing the kids apart
Caring for kids in dysfunctional families
Strong relationships strengthen families
Anti-family zealots
Parents deserve right to spank kids
Pay parents to stay at home
Struggle for survival
Agency's power over parents
Parents fail the test
Father's day
Group honors father's for being involved dads
Raising the Grandchildren
Changes in fathers custody rights urged
Battered husbands trapped by shame
Parents feel confident but challenged
Achievement better for children in nuclear families than for children in single-parent families
Get tough parenting gurus are wrong
Violence at home spirals across Bay
From street children to street families
Can you keep your kids' lives together when your marriage comes apart?
A poor relationship with your teenagers puts them at a higher risk of becoming bullies or victims
Parents vs. children: Families in crisis
Parents' tug-of-war and child's future
Family violence strikes men too
Why mentoring problem children may be useless
What good is tough love?
Life lessons for a little brother
Family court: "sort it, not report it"
Detached youth work

Foster care

'Aged-out' foster care kids face tough odds
Hawaii: Number of children in foster care plunges to 15-year low
CASA gives foster kids a voice in the court system
Longer foster care better?
Meaning-making in foster care
Fostering gains
UK: Raising age of leaving care to 21
Foster children's emotional needs
Better lives for children in care
Kevin Brennan, Children Minister-National Care Leavers Week
State reviewing foster care, residential programs

Gangs

Shock report: Gangs replace parents as role model for Scots kids
Youth violence:  Tactics against gangs fatally flawed - report  
Defining the gang and other street organisations
Gangs, drugs and our kids
Idaho gang summit brings new hope
U.S. passes tough anti-gang law
Parents warned of gang links
Knives are out for gang culture

Giving Evidence

Suffer the Children
The Child Witness
Youth Confessions
Long wait for justice
Courting disaster for child witnesses

Interventions

What happened to the boy they couldn't break?
A form of slavery
Early intervention can stop a life of crime
Vulnerable children cry for help
Violent confrontations
Prevention is better than cure
Nobody's children
Irish youth program teaches tolerance
Police striving to deal with diversity
Dealing with bullies
Spare the rod
A harsh stance makes harsh kids
It's good to talk
Reigning in the rage
Looking out for children at risk
Larry Brendtro: From Coercive to Strength-Based Intervention
Suspect's sister tips state to boy in chains
Six-year-old offenders will be sent to boot camp
Rescuing kids earlier from mental anguish
Anti-bullying is a process but we are leading the way - Cochrane Round-up
Rebuilding normalcy at Red Lake
Protecting the intellectually disabled
Storefront Group aims to reduce property crimes by youth
County has new approach to troubled juveniles
Troubled youth find an open ear on-line

Juvenile justice

UK: Move to prevent youth offending
The child is father of the man: Juvenile justice
N.Y. struggling with how to handle child prostitutes
South Africa: Shaping a sustainable child Bill
Issue: Juvenile offenders can face adult penalties
When 'off the streets' isn't good enough
Juvenile center home to despair
Wales: Drastic youth justice changes sought
Report: Juvenile justice system a mess
Call to lift age limit on child hearings
New York: True justice for youths
TYC remains troubled agency
Sentencing minors: Boost for Californian bill
Unlocking youth justice
Ten years of restorative justice
Get-tough guy TYC adviser says: get smart too
Restorative justice gets vote of confidence
Germany: Preventing not punishing youth crime
Could you Give Them a Fair Hearing
UK uses restorative justice
Courting juvenile justice
Equal justice for small
Funding juvenile justice
Youth justice as a election issue in Scotland
Should the US juvenile justice be flexible?
Fewer Missouri juveniles tried as adults
Pakistan: Juvenile justice at last
Give young delinquents order
Victims of the justice gap
Youth justice 'fails' young criminals
International week of student action
A solid defense
California trying to reform juvenile system
Judical candidates endorse alternatives to jail
Chaos meets order in the court
California urged to follow Missouri on youth prisons
Dump juvenile sex offenders
Project for combating juvenile delinquency
Mental health court helping kids
Juvenile injustice
Inner city youth face trial by teens
Courts still let down our most vulnerable children
Aim of new youth court to eliminate drug habit
Marian Wright Edelman: The injustices of the juvenile justice system
Advocates call vetoes of two juvenile justice bills 'moving backward'
Juvenile justice head making waves with reforms
Erase charges of unconvicted juveniles?
Juvenile drug court graduates 3 teens
Georgia child welfare lawsuit settled
Boy, 15, overturns youth curfews
Just how credible is a child eyewitness?
Counseling, probation replace punishment
Aboriginal justice conference finds hope
Adult crime, adult time
Some 'Meet your victim' pioneer schemes scrapped
Juvenile justice: where it all begins
Juvenile justice assessment
Defining child in the eyes of the law
New youth law
Youths get away with murder
Thailand's new anti-human trafficking act
Amber alert now protects all children
The Beijing Declaration
Decision for anonymity
Disability law and juvenile justice
The impact of Canada's new pot law
First sitting of Scottish youth court
Execution opens discussion
Supreme court to rule on spanking
Key child policy fails
The road to independence act
Stockholm Declaration
The Scottish School law project
Amnesty International Reports
Child labour in Canada
Challenge over curfew laws
No Child Left Behind Act
Police train for new policy
Canada: Early childhood agreement
NZ: Law rewrite to protect young
NZ: Interest of child to the fore in new bill
NZ: Tamihere speech: Young offenders
Canada: Youth crime bill mostly empty
Punishing smacking
UK government downgrades cannabis
Hogg deals blow to child and family cuts
Working children deserve better
Legislature must renew its commitment
Pros & cons of statutory rape laws
Sweet sixteen
Future judges endorse alternatives to jail
Online obscenity law treads on free speech
The Youth Protection Act - 25 years later
EU opportunity to boost children's rights
Board approves curfew for teens
Teenage magistrates
End of state care to abrupt
France is sick of alcopops
Stockton's Chaderjian facility targeted in bill to reform youth corrections system
Efficiency of youth programs subject of new bill
Human trafficking now an epidemic
Zambia: Govt. not doing enough for OVC, says official report
U.S. passes tough anti-gang law
California weighs lesbians' parental rights
Ruling limits searches by child welfare workers
Monsters in the making
Lawmakers change juvenile justice guidelines
Boy, 15, overturns youth curfews
Could we care more?
Charter details rights of kids
Child protection system stretched beyond limits
DHS has become dumping ground
Guards detail youth's final minutes
Boot camp has little success
Children in care lag behind other pupils
No direction home

Medical/ Mental disorders

Canada: Parents worried about children's emotional health
Who are we? Coming of age on antidepressants
Do they know where to turn?
Talking therapies for children with mental health problems: the obstacles
Depressing news on depression
Stop our children dying
Are antidepressants dangerous?
A new spark for life
Second thoughts on restricting drugs to treat depression
Experts say key for monitoring youth on antidepressants, other medicine
Methamphtetamines ruinous effects on children documented in Midwest study
Teenagers' mental health parents' onus
ADHD drugs not just for children anymore
Self-harm epidemic now starts at age eight
Fat teens on drugs
Pakistan quake victims psychological disorders
Bipolar kids overlooked

People

From East Oakland streets, a teen rises above
Ellen Key: The Century of the Child
Christopher Beedel R.I.P
Holly and Jessica
Homer Lane on the Little Commonwealth
Honorary Doctorate for Henry Maier
Child advocate won't be muzzled
Volunteering is a 'win-win activity'
Troubleshooter for teens
Mr. Chips meets the feral children

Poverty

Simulation reveals poverty realities
Children first in poverty battle
What Kind of World for Our Children
Zambia's children
Letter to two leaders
Frame by frame: the lost voices from Britain's urban hell
From street children to street families
The question of street kids in Rwanda
Cambodian children's salt fields ordeal
India's child workers appeal for lost childhood
Getting tough on crime means getting tough on poverty

Programs for youth

The disconnected
Criminals' kids struggle to avoid parents' fate
A positive alternative to court for kids in trouble
Teen's family say cancelled program changed his life
Reaching troubled teens
Florida community program
New program: Multisystemic therapy
Outward Bound program offered at Five Rivers
Youth boot-camp abuse charges
Trouble for teen program
UK: Balancing crime and freedoms
Praise for mediation program
Police train for new policy
Children 'Should confront problems'
Looking out for children at risk
Climbing program teach students to conquer fear
30 years of SOS Children's Villages
New support system gives wards of state a boost to education
Program uses horses to communicate with adolescents
Girls in juvenile system recommend program improvements
Mobile phones to detect adolescent depression
Who's looking after the city's caring children
Re-Entry Program helps juveniles
Do youth services need improving?
Put men back in mentoring
Highfields: residential program reopens
No home to go to

Reports and studies

Resiliency among black youth
Annual report on education systems in the EU
Scottish work on challenging behaviour in children
Childcare: child's play is now a minefield
New report: the damaging effects of child protection policies
Care child parents 'frustrated'
The State as parent
Kids Count Report from Casey Foundation
Watchdogs tell UN Britain is breaching childrens' rights
Study: Girls at high risk
Planning for different care groups
Early childhood nursery programs
Report: Kids victimized by the system
UK not protecting children's rights
Ireland: Opinion poll on childhood
Children's peer victimization
Nature, not nurture to blame for aggressive children
Frequent care placements may lead to crime
Scotland parents: Undermined, under-valued and unsupported
Ex foster kids: No home, no health care
Failure to leave home
Violence in teen video games
4 Mil youth face tough road to adulthood success
Court orders kids out
Youth home management faulted
Many wind up in custody not treatment
New supports for children with autism
100,000 children wait
Fingering the aggressor
Indiana - courts failing youth
Council failing looked-after children

Residential care

Scotland: Child care services 'must improve'
Pedagogues come to residential care
Early childhood nursery programs

Runaways

Life on the streets gets tougher
UK: Our missing children
Find safe alternative for vulnerable 'throwaways'
Help I'm Falling
Runaways
Australia: Runaway teens
Few missing children ever make headlines

Sexuality

Vexed about sex
Sex and Sensibility
A Better Way for Sex Education
Children on Sex Street
Young Sex Offenders
Cleared
We Must Still Listen to Kids
Saving kids from sexual predators
Sex is not just for grown-ups
Sexual trends among black youth
Underage commercial sexual activity
Web wrongly blamed for child porn
Sex abuse: Brazil needs to change
Under-16s sex ‘not a subject for police’
Restraint and reality
Common misconceptions parents have about sex and their kids
Driven to take morning after pills
Are condoms for kids the answer?
Treating childhood sexual abuse
Sex education the sex challenge
Abstinence courses flawed
'Chastity czar' hopes teens will embrace abstinence
Laws may promote unprotected sex
Low self-esteem: how to beat it
Foster crisis for sexually aggressive youth
Too much sex on the brain
Raising the moral child
Is childhood becoming oversexed?
Abused children often ignored
Comprehensive review of research into impact of sex in media on youth reveals troubling signs
South Africa: paedophile register
Paedophiles call child abuse line
UK: Rape statistics
The sex offenders register
Sexually abusive children

Street children/homeless

Shelterand drop-in center: Place for homeless teens
A triumph for Durban's street children
No place to call home
Honduras: War on children
Russian Street Children
Iraq street children
Romania street kids have own kids
Difficult life on the streets
Street children find refuge in sewers
Zimbabwe: Rescuing street kids
Begging for attention
Homeless teens expect life  of drugs, sex, danger
Situation assessment of children living and/or working on the streets of Harare and Chitungwiza
Romania's blighted street  children
How street kids found a voice through searing art
Census gains a realistic picture of street life
City 'must explain policy'
Alarming rise in number of street children
Rwanda's street children
The kids are all right
UNICEF to support street kids project

Suicide

Depths of despair
Previous suicidality greater risk than medication in teens
Scotland: conference on teen suicide
WHO report on Violent Deaths
Youth Suicide
Saving youngsters from suicide
Swiss: Pleas for help to prevent suicide
Need to talk about teen suicide
Researching the causes of suicide
CYF project halves child suicide rate
Study: Suicide query wont plant the idea
Dying to succeed: Fatal pressure on our children
Connecticut: Suicide of inmate, 17, stirs city action
Easy life risks youth suicide

Surveys and conferences

Panel talk homelessness
Judicial debate on options for kids in trouble
Conference examines teen meth prevention
2003 youth risk behavior survey released
Men 'winning' caring profession sex war
Comprehensive review of research into impact of sex in media on youth reveals troubling signs
Future for looked after children questioned
Restorative justice plan brings no reoffending cut

Transitions

Making transition into adult life smoother
BC fails children in care
Youth offenders transitioning

Violence

Police in B.C. try to thwart bush parties
Kids carry knives because of lack of warmth and discipline at home
UK: Met extends powers to stop and search youths
In my hood
UK: Under16s gun deaths rise
Boyhood and guns
UK: Only law and order can stop knife crime
Disaffected youth in Belfast
Teach children not to resort to violence
Vandals
Global Violence can be Prevented
Women and Violence
Violence and black children in Australia
Is violence natural for boys?
Battered boys
Violence at home creates lasting scars in children
Youth violence knows no borders
No-blame approach for bullies comes under attack
Violent crimes by girls rising but reasons why unclear
Preventing domestic violence
Traumatized children cant learn
Ontario youth call for end to violence
Judge haunted by Inara's ordeal
Rebuilding normalcy at Red Lake
TV violence: the good and the bad for our children
'We want our children to be innocent, and when they're not, we turn them into monsters'
Delinquent youth far more likely to die and die violently than youth in the general population
Child abuse a pattern of experience
African meeting on UN study on violence against children urges ban on beating
Bully for them
Brazil debates child and youth violence
Native community hopes to curb violence with cadet corps
Real cost of violence on screen
We need to engage youth

War

Child soldiers
Child Soldiers around the World
Focus on healing and reconciliation
Child soldiers tell their stories
Suffering of child soldiers
My life as a soldier
Children in the firing line
Cult drags youth on sleepwalk to evil
The problems of reintegrating child soldiers
Forgotten child soldiers who want to stop killing
Focus on rehabilitation of child soldiers
Sudan: Southern forces still training children
Sudan: Darfur youth idle, neglected
Congo - children continued to be ravaged by armed conflict
Iraq - children used as combatants

Working with young sex offenders: three articles by Grant Charles and Jennifer Collins

Perceptions of adolescent sex offenders
The Treatment of adolescent sex offenders
The dynamics of working with sex offenders

Work with Girls

Culture of bad girls on the increase
Teen Girls' Second Chance
Girls and Violence
Work with Adolescent Girls
Thinking about Mary
Earlscourt: A Model Intervention
Increasing violence amongst girls
Girls need anti-bullying outlook
Violence raging among teen girls

Youth hostels and orphanages

Not in my backyard
Homeless youth gets safe harbour
No relief in the suburbs
Group homes
Out of state treatment centres
Washington Post articles
Japanese CYC facilities overstretched
The best for 'bad boys'
Nowhere to call home
New role for children's shelter
Rights commission probes youth centre

Youth Care Organizations and workers

Professionals' views of GP-style social work practices
2001 Annual Report from the National Association of Child Care Workers (SA)
ILCYCYC
NACP
Stages of the Child and Youth Care Workers Development
UNICEF
BC's CYC budget cuts
Canada's budget cuts
DHSS new goal is efficiency
Troubled children at heart of the storm
Abuse stigma puts men off child care
How to fix the CPS
Maryville: Plan to improve morale
DYFS caseworkers speak out
DCYFS remedy needed
Trust and bound
Some perspective
Staff woes handcuff DYS
Workers tell of attacks
Under-funded system failing abused children
Child care workers earn poverty pay
DYFS intensifies caseworker training
Childcare recruitment plea heard
Child welfare review begins
Veneman outlines policy for UNICEF
Youth work training: Join the professionals
Serious failings persist in care of vulnerable children

Miscellaneous

Toward never another sexual abuse crisis
UK: Care Matters Implementation Plan launched
Checking children in care a challenge
Court rule over children tested
Liberia: Disarming violent youths
Inauguration of SOS Children's Village
World youth report
Gala tribute honors Prince Philip
Namibia: Reissue appeal – no response
A Feminist's View of Caring
Contemporary debate on youthwork

Get in Touch with your Gut

Immigration

Total Recall

Australia and New Zealand's Children

New Research into Boy/Girl Differences

Style Conscious Kids

Social Policy and Self Esteem

Call for Children's Commissioner

Alienation comes of age

Child care month - nothing to celebrate

When there are no taboo

Father's day special

The joyless childhood

Why are our children so sad

Parents reconsider technology for kids

50-year-old records opened: Unease over UK's child migrants policy