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CFK reports from: Vulnerable Youth and the Transition to Adulthood
Event: A panel discussion
Organized by: Chapin Hall Center for Children and the Urban Institute
Where/When: Urban Institute, Washington DC, Thursday, February 9, 2006

In the second of a new series of panel discussions on positive youth development models, five panelists discussed the issues facing certain populations of young people as they make the transition to independent living as adults.

Marshall Brain's The Teenager's Guide to the Real World provides honest and practical information about the facts of life-from the costs of life to the reality of careers to the commitment of love and marriage. The author provides logical guidelines based on these facts as well as inspirational advice in achieving success.

Reviving Ophelia, by Mary Pipher, Ph.D., is subtitled "Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls." It is a good book for parents of growing daughters, the daughters themselves, and anyone who has ever known young girls.

As a pediatrician specializing in the treatment of family violence, Dr. Eli Newberger studies the character of boys and the ways we—parents, caregivers, communities—can help them develop into emotionally strong and healthy men. Guest reviewer Julie Ann Moylan reviews his book, The Men They Will Become.

The number of children with a parent behind bars has soared to over 2 million in recent years. A small but growing number of programs are addressing the problem of how to keep parent-child relationships alive through the years of incarceration. Chris Dickon reports on one, the Messages Project in Virginia.

On March 30, the Index on the well-being of American children will be released. Based on nearly thirty years of data from national surveys of child well-being, defined by factors including mortality, poverty, and suicide rates; drug use; educational test scores; health insurance coverage; and crimes committed by children, the index contains information on how children are faring now and how their status has changed in recent years.

This guide is designed to help adults working with adolescents and youth find appropriate assessments and support young people's career development. It also provides a learning needs screening tool for youth with suspected learning disabilities.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Health Resources and Services Administration have published a guide for states and communities that translates Healthy People 2010 objectives into plans and programs aimed at improving the health of teenagers and young adults.

A Child Trends research summary shows a strong connection between education and all aspects of success -- from employment and earnings to health, family formation and civic involvement. Moreover, the critical link between a college education and future economic success has actually grown in the last several decades.