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What to do if you think a child is considering suicide

Dr. Matthew Wintersteen, director of research at the Thomas Jefferson University Medical College’s Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, spent five years...

Computing and Engineering in Afterschool

Eating Disorders: More Than Meets The Eye

The last time I went to rehab, I had no hope,” admits 24-year-old Kaylee Vanderhoof, regrettably. “I did not care if I...

Getting at the Roots of Trauma

  When violence and mental illness stem from adverse childhood experiences. Eddie Bocanegra grew up in Chicago’s mostly Mexican-American Pilsen neighborhood in...

CHRIS Kids Aims to Ease the Hold of Trauma

In serving more than 20,000 adults, adolescents and children since 1981, CHRIS Kids has always understood the importance of dealing with trauma,...

Self-Harm: Identifying and Supporting Teens Who Intentionally Hurt Themselves

For some students, stresses in their lives can lead to dangerous behavior, such as intentional self-injuries Juliana Kerrest started hurting herself when...

Understanding Clinical Treatment

Understanding clinical treatment Understanding the basics of clinical treatment can help youth-development professionals better support young people they work with who need...

Spotting self-harm and other signs of stress

Professionals can look for the following signs that a young person may be engaging in self-harm, or experiencing emotional distress that needs...

Out-of-school Time Programs Boost Students’ Computing, Engineering Skills

In the Growing Up Thinking Scientifically after-school program based in Santa Fe, N.M., students design, create and test computer models to examine...

Students Talk About Common Core standards

Creatas / Thinkstock From Newsday: The Common Core academic standards and more rigorous curricula and testing stemming from them are subjects of increased...

Yoga Stretches Kids’ Bodies – and Minds

Ali Smith, a co-founder of the nonprofit Holistic Life Foundation Inc., leads children during an after-school yoga and mindfulness session at Robert...

Pediatricians Call for Limit on Kids’ Media Time

Cole Chanin-Hassman, 10, looks at a computer game called Minecraft on his laptop. Like many other kids his age, the Los Angeles fourth-grader counts among...

State Program Gets Mental Health Services to Kids Who Need it Most

From the The Indianapolis Star More than 100 Indiana children are receiving intensive mental health services under a new state program designed to...

Foster Care Population Drops Sharply in California

  Chart showing the decline in foster care populations in California. Via Kids Data From the San Francisco Chronicle (MCT) — California has seen...

The Comeback and Coming-from-Behind States: An Update on Youth Incarceration in the United States

Fathers’ Involvement With Their Children: United States, 2006–2010

With Hunger and Homelessness Still on the Rise, SNAP Cuts Pose Hardship

From a new report by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Although unemployment rates dropped in 2013, it was still the No. 1...

Before Student Debt: The Story of a Student’s Struggle to Pay for College

Rakhi Agrawal, photo by Gwen McClure. NEW YORK — During her senior year at William H. Hall High School in West Hartford, Conn.,...

Whatever You Call It, Synthetic Pot is Poison

It goes by names like “Spice,” “K2,” “Black Magic,” “Demon,” “Blaze,” “Red X Dawn” and “Paradise.” But experts have another name for...

After Newtown, School Districts Across Nation Ask What it Takes to Make Kids Safe

  After the shooting at Newtown, Conn. last year, Superintendent Matt Dossey launched a program to arm a select group of staff...