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Survey Identifies Teen Online Behaviors Associated With Online Interpersonal Victimization

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine Using data from a 2005 telephone survey of nearly 1,500 American youth ages 10 to 17...

Research

Annual Summary of Vital Statistics: 2005

Pediatrics, Vol. 119 No. 2, February 2007, pgs. 345-360 Abstract available at: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/119/2/345 A small media frenzy erupted last month over the...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Breaking the Silence: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Foster Youth Tell Their Stories

National Center for Lesbian Rights, Free. “I won’t sit in the dark and be a hanger. The only things in the closet...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

How to Feed a Teenage Boy

Georgia OrcuttTen Speed Press240 pages. $14.95. A nutrition guide and recipe book for parents and youth workers looking for healthy meal options...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Staff Selection: Choose with Care

Meredith KiralyHaworth Press163 pages. $24.95. A hiring guide for providers of residential care. The first of the book’s two sections gives a...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Teen Obesity: How Schools Can be the Number One

Solution to the ProblemWilliam L. FibkinsRowman and Littlefield Education219 pages. $24.95. An action plan for parents, school leaders and community activists to...

Grants

Grants Awarded for December 2006 – January 2007

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services200 Independence Avenue, S.W.Washington, D.C. 20201(202) 619-0257www.hhs.govSee: Compassion Capitol Fund FY 2006 (pdf) U.S. Substance...

Guest Opinion Essay

Weight is the Least of It

When it comes to youth wellness, we’ve been having the wrong conversation. In a culture increasingly plagued by obesity, we’ve been obsessed...

News

Report Roundup for December 2006 – January 2007

A compilation of the reports from this issue.

Research

Research of Note for December 2006 – January 2007

Child Welfare: Improving Social Service Program, Training and Technical Assistance Information Would Help Address Long-standing Service-Level and Workforce ChallengesU.S. Government Accountability Office...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Getting It Together for Abused Kids

The number of child advocacy centers (CACs) in the United States today is 12 times as high as it was 12 years...

News

Report Roundup for November 2006

A compilation of the reports from this issue.

Research

Research of Note for November 2006

Rebuilding Families, Reclaiming Lives: State Obligations to Children in Foster Care and Their Incarcerated Parents The Brennan Center for Justice at New...

Guest Opinion Essay

The Ugly Euginics of ‘Teen Pregnancy Prevention’

Gary Yates, president of The California Wellness Foundation, recently mischaracterized teen pregnancy, invoked destructive stereotypes that brand poorer mothers’ babies as “social...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

The Rising Voices of Foster Parents

When Daniele and Steve Baxter took over the Foster Parent Association of Washington State in 2004, the organization was in a tight...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Health Care on Wheels

While youth advocates have successfully lobbied in recent years for programs to expand health insurance coverage for poor children, insurance is not...