All posts tagged "Mental Health"

All Together Now: Collaboration and Innovation for Youth Engagement

LGBT Communities and the Affordable Care Act

Transteens

Transgender teens come from all over New York to find refuge on Christopher Street but soon discover they are underserved by social-services...

Trans Freedom Fighters Help Today’s Trans Teens

Photo by Robert Stolarick In the late 1990s when Carl Siciliano worked at Safe Space, an organization that helped homeless teens, he...

DRUMBEAT Program Provides a Safe Space for Rhythmic Reflection

DRUMBEAT, a group program that uses hand drumming to create a fun, safe space for social learning and self-reflection, provided her with a...

Is Citywide Afterschool Coordination Going Nationwide?

CDC Finds Teens Using E-Cigarettes Doubled Last Year

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), adolescent use of electronic cigarettes doubled from 2011 to 2012, with an...

Notes from the Field: Electronic Cigarette Use Among Middle and High School Students — United States, 2011–2012

Poor Quality Housing Is Tied to Children’s Emotional and Behavioral Problems

Results from the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Summary of National Findings

Sesame Street Workshop Helps Kids with Incarcerated Parents

Kharon Benson reads letters from his imprisoned father. At age 10, Benson found out that his father was not in the military...

State to Boost Care for Medicaid Youths

Via The Seattle Times / (MCT):  In what all sides hailed as a landmark agreement, the state of Washington has agreed to fundamentally change the...

ABA Urges US to Promote Housing as a Human Right

Governments should promote the “human right to housing,” according to a resolution passed by the American Bar Association (ABA). “The American Bar...

Where Teens Seek Online Privacy Advice

Childhood Economic Strains in Predicting Substance Use in Emerging Adulthood

Child Abuse Reporting Process: Q&A

Note: this information is not meant to provide legal advice. Because laws and procedures vary by state, anyone working with young people...

Best Practices

Best Practices Child abuse and neglect is a thorny problem, but there are programs that have been proven successful in reducing abuse...

Adolescent Marijuana Use May Result in Permanent Cognitive Dysfunction, Researchers Say

A recent report published in the Nature journal Neuropsychopharmacology says that routine adolescent marijuana use may result in permanent brain dysfunction. Researchers...

Poor Children More Likely to Smoke, But Less Likely to Binge Drink, According to Duke Study

According to researchers at Duke University, children who grew up in poverty are more likely to become cigarette smokers as adults —...

Childcare Experts Urge Attention to Adult in Child Welfare

Approximately 200 state lawmakers, staff and advocates from across the country at a child welfare forum at the National Conference of State Legislatures...