• A Place to Grow and Learn: A Citywide Approach to Building and Sustaining Out-of-School Time Opportunities—Nation's Cities Weekly, December 2008
• Baltimore City's Parks and Recreation Centers: An Underutilized Resource for Urban Teens—The Center for Adolescent Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Issue Briefs, Spring 2008
• Best Practices To Address Community Gang Problems: OJJDP's Comprehensive Gang Model—Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, June 2008
• Community Impact: A Year of Results—United Way of Central Maryland, Early 2008
• Given Half a Chance: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males—The Schott Foundation for Public Education, July 2008
• Making Children, Families, and Communities Safer From Violence—National Crime Prevention Council, November 1996
• Maryland Child and Family Services Interagency Strategic Plan—Maryland Children's Cabinet, June 2008
• Securing the Future for Safer Youth and Communities—National Crime Prevention Council, April 1998
• Uncounted and Discounted: Homeless Youth in Baltimore City—The Center for Adolescent Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Issue Briefs, Winter 2008

A December 2008 report in Nation's Cities Weekly by The Wallace Foundation, entitled "A Place to Grow and Learn: A Citywide Approach to Building and Sustaining Out-of-School Time Opportunities," describes the six action elements that are essential to coordinating effective out-of-school time systems that make high-quality learning opportunities available to more children. These elements consist of committed leadership, a public or private coordinating entity, multi-year planning, reliable information, expanding participation, and a commitment to quality.

The Center for Adolescent Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Issue Briefs, Spring 2008—The Issues Brief examines what draws youth to these facilities and what drives them away.
To download a copy of the Issues Brief visit: jhsph.edu/adolescenthealth/_includes/parksandrecsbrief060208.pdf.

June 24, 2008—The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) has published Best Practices To Address Community Gang Problems: OJJDP's Comprehensive Gang Model. The report provides communities responding to a present or potential youth gang problem with guidance in implementing OJJDP's Comprehensive Gang Model. It describes the research informing the model, notes findings from evaluations of several programs demonstrating the model, and outlines best practices derived from practitioners with experience in planning and implementing the model in their communities. Download pdf report at ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/222799.pdf.

Community Impact: A Year of Results culminates one full year (2007) of United Way of Central Maryland's and its Impact Partners' progress towards regional impact.
Community impact is defined as: The mobilization of communities to create lasting changes in community conditions that improve the lives of people with the greatest need.

July 25, 2008—More than a half-century after Brown v. Board of Education, the nation’s urban public school systems continue to be a pipeline to failure for most Black male students, a report by the Schott Foundation for Public Education finds. The full data set is available online at blackboysreport.org.

This publication of the National Crime Prevention Council from November 1996 provides ideas for preventing/reducing violence; includes profiles of programs that help curb violence, tips for success, resource list, checklist, referral phone list. Download the PDF here. (15MB PDF=slow download)

June 30, 2008—This strategic plan is the culmination of an intensive, collaborative effort by the Maryland Children’s Cabinet in partnership with families, communities, and providers to improve the child-family serving delivery system to better anticipate and respond to the needs of youth and families. The goal for this strategic planning process was the implementation of a coordinated interagency effort to develop a youth service system that can better meet the needs of youth and their families and target children who are at-risk. Download the full pdf.

This publication of the National Crime Prevention Council from April 1998 offers ideas on how adults can help keep youth crime free while helping them become active, involved adults. It includes examples of proven programs and checklists. Download the PDF here. (14MB PDF=slow download)

The Center for Adolescent Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Issue Briefs, Winter 2008—The Issue Brief examines the causes of youth homelessness and poses strategies for reaching out to these dangerously at-risk youth. As many as 1.7 million American youth run away from home or are homeless every year. In Baltimore City, that translates into nearly 2,300 homeless children and youth.
To download a copy of the in-depth Issues Brief visit: jhsph.edu/adolescenthealth/_includes/jhu_8%20pager_web_printing.pdf.