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All posts tagged "Mental Health"
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1.7KNewsLegislation with Mental Health Reforms, Opioid Prevention Funding Heads to Senate
A major medical innovation bill that could help children and families with mental health reforms and funding to fight opioid addiction is...
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2.2KGuest Opinion EssayHow to Reduce the Use of Chemical Restraints on Foster Children
We American taxpayers spend many, many millions of dollars on chemical restraints, also known as antipsychotic medications, that we administer to children...
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Depression Is a Deadly Growing Threat to Our Youth: Time to Rally
This new report published in Pediatrics uses nationwide data to show a startling and disturbing rise in the percentage of adolescents experiencing...
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6.5KFrom the BureausA Troubled Life of Truancy, Drugs Leads to Foster Care, Early Death
Only a few years apart, Andrew Lavin and Jennifer Cohen grew up together, first in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and then in Staten...
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2.5KNewsPuberty Blockers May Improve The Mental Health Of Transgender Adolescents
Puberty is no picnic, even in the best of circumstances. Once the sex hormones estrogen or testosterone kick in, there’s no turning...
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1.7KNewsRace, Ethnicity Affect Kids’ Access To Mental Health Care, Study Finds
Nubia Flores Miranda works part time at Family Paths, a counseling and mental health organization in Oakland, Calif. Miranda, a psychology major...
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Grants
Youth Bereavement Support Services Grants
Subject: Child Welfare, Youth Welfare, Mental Health | Deadline: Ongoing
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3.5KBook ReviewsGarbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir
“I always felt isolated and alone” in foster care, begins Shenandoah Chefalo in “Garbage Bag Suitcase.” “As soon as I understood that...
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1.6KGuest Opinion EssaySelfishly Selfless: Social Anxiety, Addiction and the Benefits of Service
People in recovery vividly recall their first experiences with drugs and alcohol as teenagers.
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Grants
Childhood Bereavement Services Organization Capacity Building Grants
Subject: Child Welfare, Mental Health, Childhood Trauma | Deadline: July 11, 2016
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1.2KGuest Opinion EssayTime to End State-sanctioned Assaults on Our Schoolchildren
When I arrived in North Carolina more than a decade ago to teach and practice law, it was a bit of a...
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13.4KNewsTeen Stress and the Growing Brain
Anyone who works with adolescents knows what recent science has confirmed: Teenagers just don’t think like adults. In fact, researchers have known...
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8.2KGuest Opinion EssayConsidering a Research-Informed Theoretical Framework for Trauma-Informed Approaches
Trauma-informed self-sufficiency programs are in their infancy in assessing how, where and when to address trauma among their clients. But new frameworks...
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1.3KGuest Opinion EssayPreventive Services Saved My Family
I was pregnant when I aged out of foster care. My boyfriend and I wanted to have the baby, but I worried...
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4.1KNewsNolan’s Story
"I just couldn't stop," said Nolan Eley, 25, who lived through a revolving door of getting help, relapsing and alienating loved ones...
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2.4KFrom the BureausTraumatized, Locked Up, LA Girls Starting to Get More Help
Moriah Barrett, then 14, woke up to burns on her body one night along with physical evidence that she had been raped....
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8.9KNewsSeeking Mental Health Support: Teens Helped Pass New Law to Access Mental Health Care Without Parental Consent
Jordan T. was 16 years old when he tried to see a mental health care professional to help him resolve “issues” at...
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2.3KGuest Opinion EssayPlaying Offense: Behavioral Health Interventions During Adolescence Is Our Best Shot
In the behavioral health field, it is clear that the most high-stakes developmental period is adolescence, when mental illness and substance use...
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Grants
Grants for Communities Addressing Childhood Trauma
Subject: Health, Child/Youth Welfare, Mental Health, Community Development | Deadline: Apr. 18, 2016
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3.1KNewsConvicted on Drug Charges, Georgia Youth Faces Life After Rehab
NEWNAN, Ga. — It was the fake $100 bill that finally landed Corey Roberts in prison. He’d already had one close call,...
