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Hwang, A. 2012. Supporting Pan Asian Runaway and Homeless Youth: Special Projects of Regional and National Significance—[Final report]. Minneapolis, MN: Asian Media Access, 33 pp., plus appendices.

Annotation: This final report describes a project to provide Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) runaway and homeless youth in Minnesota culturally-appropriate health services, through RICE (Reaching Immigrants with Care & Education). The 2007-2012 project included street outreach, health education, prevention and intervention services designed for AAPI street youth, aged between 10-18 years old, with a special focus on Hmong runaway girls who bear highest risk of being subjected to sexual abuse. Report contents include a description of the project and realtionship to Title V maternal and child health programs, goals and objectives, methodology, evaluation, results and outcomes, dissemination and utilization of results, as well as future plans and sustainability. The appendix includes the evaluation report. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Adolescents, Asian Americans, Final reports, Health services delivery, Homeless persons, Outreach, Pacific Islanders, Runaways, Youth

National Clearinghouse on Families and Youth. 1995. A guide to implementing research and demonstration grants for the Family and Youth Services Bureau. [Washington, DC]: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Family and Youth Services Bureau, 86 pp.

Annotation: This report provides information on the Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) Research and Demonstration Program grants for independent living and outreach services for runaway and homeless youth. It offers guidance for planning a research and demonstration project, implementing a research and demonstration project, networking, project evaluation, project documentation, disseminating project results, and institutionalizing successful project activities. It ends with appendices on Runaway and Homeless Youth Program research and demonstration priority areas 1983-1994, Youth Gang Drug Prevention Program research and development priority areas 1989-1994, FYSB funded national and regional organizations, national clearinghouses and resource centers, and selected evaluation references.

Keywords: Demonstration programs, Federal programs, Grants management, Guidelines, Homeless persons, Outreach, Research programs, Runaways, Youth

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children Youth and Families, Family and Youth Services Bureau. 1994. A guide to enhancing the cultural competence of runaway and homeless youth programs. [Washington, DC]: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Family and Youth Services Bureau, 109 pp.

Annotation: This report discusses helping local runaway and homeless youth programs better meet the needs of an increasingly diverse population of young people. It provides information on focusing on cultural competence, getting started, assessing current organizational competence, taking action, and the challenge of change. It ends with appendices on assessment questionnaires, materials on cultural competence, national resource organizations, matrix of community diversity, matrix of staff diversity, matrix of board diversity, matrix of volunteer diversity, and an evaluation form.

Keywords: Cultural diversity, Culturally competent services, Guidelines, Homeless persons, Organizations, Runaways, Youth services

Pires SA, Silber JT. 1991. On their own: Runaway and homeless youth and programs that serve them. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Child Development Center, Children and Youth at Risk Project, 275 pp.

Annotation: This book is a report on runaway and homeless youth, and programs serving them, in seven large and medium-sized cities throughout the United States. It focuses on the characteristics and service needs of these youth and the demands they pose for service providers. The book examines how the population and the service environment have changed since passage of the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act in 1974 and whether public policies and practices have kept pace with these changes. The book looks at social and practice issues confronting providers and policy makers and highlights viable strategies that have been developed by programs to serve this population of youth effectively.

Keywords: Community programs, Homeless persons, Runaways, Youth, Youth services

Finkelhor D, Hotaling G, Sedlak A. 1990. Missing, abducted, runaway, and thrownaway children in America: First report—Numbers and characteristics, national incidence studies: Executive summary. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, 19 pp.

Annotation: This is the executive summary of a report on the incidence of children being abducted, running away, being lost or missing, or being "thrown away," defined as being directly told to leave the household; refused readmittance to the household; ignored when running away; or abandoned or deserted. Summary statistics are presented graphically for the incidence of these cases in the U.S. as a whole. In the prose text, other data, such as typical perpetrator, time of year, race of victim, distance the runaway traveled, duration of absence, or incidence of returning home, are given. The report draws its statistics from a survey of 34, 000 households, a survey of juvenile residential facilities, a study of community service professionals, and an analysis of police and FBI records. It was funded by a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Keywords: Abandoned children, Abductions, Children, Missing children, Runaways Youth, Statistics

Smollar J, Youniss J, Ooms T. 1986. Family relationships of adolescents in crisis: An assessment of research and programs: Final report. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Social Services Policy, 74 pp.

Annotation: This report describes the findings of a study designed to examine the role of parent involvement in services to pregnant adolescents, drug abusers, and runaway youth under eighteen years old. The investigation entailed a review of the developmental, clinical, and research literature; interviews with experts in the field of program policy; and site visits and interviews with personnel at 26 programs serving adolescents in the Washington, DC-Baltimore, MD area. The report discusses factors found to serve as barriers or which facilitate parent involvement in services. Recommendations for future research are provided.

Keywords: Adolescent health, Adolescent pregnancy, Parents, Runaways Youth, Substance abuse
   

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