"America's Youth: Measuring the Risk" (2002) The Institute for Youth Development
Gives data on America’s youth characteristics, attitudes, beliefs, perceptions, and risk-taking behaviors. Gives information and data on the interconnection between youth risk behavior its early debut, and risk reduction factors. No download available. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
Collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. Child Trends American Teen Research Briefs
Summarizes and "translates" key research and evaluation studies on preventing teen pregnancy, encouraging better eating and exercise habits, promoting mental and emotional health, motivating teens in school, promoting positive social skills and encouraging responsible citizenship.
Child Trends DataBank
Latest national trends and research on over 70 key indicators of child and youth well-being, with new indicators added each month has been selected as a "Best Bet" on the USA TODAY Education website, April 9-15, 2003.
The Common Core of Data (CCD)
A program of the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics; a comprehensive, annual, national statistical database of information concerning all public elementary and secondary schools (approximately 95,000) and school districts (approximately 17,000). Community Youth Development Study
A University of Washington 5-year intervention study designed to determine the effectiveness of the Communities That Care ® (CTC) system in promoting healthy youth development and reducing levels of youth drug use, violence, delinquency, teenage pregnancy, and school drop out. Began 2003. "Data Trends Summary: Effectiveness of mentoring programs for youth: A meta-analytic review."
Special Issue, American Journal of Community Psychology.The Research and Training Center at Portland State University collaborates with the Research and Training Center at the University of South Florida to produce Data Trends, a series of one-page briefs addressing current themes, summarizing recent articles, or presenting new developments in the field of children's mental health.
The Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH)
Provides the latest data about youth risk behaviors and effective interventions that address adolescent risk behaviors. EdData Unveiled
The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education has released EdData--a behind-the-scenes database that provides up-to-the-minute news, research, and legislation on all 50 states and the District of Columbia covering such topics as teacher quality, No Child Left Behind, charter schools, testing and special education. The database is fully searchable.
Enhancing Parental Involvement through Goal-Based Interventions
From the Family Involvement Network of Educators of the Harvard Family Research Project
"Family Strengths: Often Overlooked, But Real" (2002)
Children Trends Research Brief . FBI Arrest Statistics
A data dissemination application developed for the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention by the National Center for Juvenile Justice. Factors include age and time period. "Guide to Frugal Evaluation for Criminal Justice"
Learn How To Evaluate Your Projects on a Budget. De-mystifies evaluation methods; guides local officials who want to conduct their own evaluations; and describes ways to design the evaluation, measure results, collect data, and interpret findings that produce useful recommendations at a relatively low cost. Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP)
Strives to increase the effectiveness of public and private organizations and communities as they promote child development, student achievement, healthy family functioning, and community development. In its relationships with national, state, and local partners, HFRP fosters a sustainable learning process—one that relies on the collection, analysis, synthesis, and application of information to guide problem-solving and decision-making.
"Key National Indicators of Well-being 2002"
New statistical report on America's children from the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics 6th Annual compendium of statistics about children's economic security, health, behaviour, social environment, and education. Monitoring the Future Survey (MTFS)
From the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health. Tracks 12th graders’ illicit drug use and attitudes towards drugs since 1975, and 8th and 10th graders since 1991. Surveys students about lifetime and past year, month, and day use of drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, and smokeless tobacco. Results released each fall.
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
Federal entity of the Department of Education for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the US and other nations. National Center for Health Statistics
CDC agency collects data to document health status of population and important health groups, identify disparities between subgroups, monitor health status and health care trends, support research, and provide information for changes in public policies and programs. National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System
Established by the US Dept. of Health and Human Services according to the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to collect, organize, and disseminate information on all aspects of child maltreatment. Connects professionals and citizens to programs, research, legislation, and statistics information. Parent Involvement in Schools-Los Angeles Annenberg Metropolitan Project
The Los Angeles Annenberg Metropolitan Project study on parental involvement found that: 1) The family makes critical contributions to student achievement from preschool through high school, 2) When parents are involved at school as well as at home, children do better and stay in school longer, 3) When a critical mass of parents is involved, the whole school improves.
Relationships Between Bullying and Violence Among U.S. Youth
According to the April issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, U.S. researchers find that while it's common, bullying is not normal -- and is associated with other forms of violent behaviors, including weapon carrying, frequent fighting, and fighting-related injury.
School-based Prevention
Research article by Mark Greenberg and other CASEL scholars in the journal American Psychologist. The authors make a compelling case for school-based prevention, summarizing findings of key studies of comprehensive SEL (Social Emotional Learning)-based prevention programming. The Search Institute
Staff conduct applied scientific work on positive child and youth development in order to strengthen and deepen the scientific underpinnings of the developmental assets framework and enhance its application across the first two decades of human life. Staff study how communities across the nation are becoming more developmentally attentive and building a developmental infrastructure for children and adolescents.
Statistics on Adolescent Females
A compilation from CDC and other sources.
Substance-Use Research - Pediatrics
Ten-Year Prospective Study of Public Health Problems Associated With Early Drinking: Early drinkers and experimenters were more likely than nondrinkers to report academic problems, substance use, and delinquent behavior in both middle school and high school. By young adulthood, early alcohol use was associated with employment problems, other substance abuse, and criminal and violent behavior. Urban Institute
The Urban Institute is a nonprofit nonpartisan policy research and educational organization that provides information and analysis to public and private decision makers to help them address these challenges and strives to raise citizen understanding of these issues and tradeoffs in policy making. U.S. Census Bureau
Online access to U.S. Census data and other statistical resources.
The U.S. Census Bureau Data Access Tools
Offers user-friendly tools for extracting and displaying information on communities across the United States. The interactive software on this site allows users to generate detailed maps with self-selected statistical information. US Department of Education Regional Educational Laboratories
The mission of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) is to provide research and development assistance in delivering equitable, high quality educational programs to improve educational results by focusing on the region’s educational needs. Funded by the USDOE. Violence in Music: Effect of Violent Lyrics on Aggression
A new study in the May issue of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology reports that violent music lyrics increase aggressive thoughts and feelings in young adults, even when the lyrics are intended to be humorous. Yale Child Study Center's School Development Program (SDP)SDP is the organization charged with implementing the Comer Process in school communities. The Comer Process, a school and system-wide intervention formulated by Dr. James P. Comer, at the Yale University School of Medicine's Child Study Center, aims to bridge child psychiatry and education. The Comer Process provides a structure as well as a process for mobilizing adults to support students' learning and overall development. It is a different way of conceptualizing and working in schools and replaces traditional school organization and management with an operating system that works for schools and the students they serve. Dr. Comer uses a metaphor of six developmental pathways to characterize the lines along which children mature--physical, cognitive, psychological, language, social, and ethical. The SDP school community uses the six developmental pathways as a framework for making decisions that will benefit children. In schools using the Comer Process, far more is expected from the students than just cognitive development.
Youth Risk Behavior National Survey
The CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors priority health risk behaviors that contribute markedly to the leading causes of death, disability, and social problems among youth. | 
