All posts tagged "Mental Health"

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...

Top Headlines 8/6

Juvenile Justice Texas professor discovered to be teenage murderer has lived 46 years crime free. 17-year-old charged in death of soccer referee...

Serious Fighting-Related Injuries Produce a Significant Reduction in Intelligence

Mississippi State University Gets $2 Million to Study Juvenile Substance Abuse Programming

Mississippi State University received a $2 million grant last week to research substance abuse prevention and treatment options for the state’s juvenile...

Poverty and Education: Finding the Way Forward

America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2013

Researchers Question Link Between Early Puberty and Adolescent Behavioral Problems

Australian researchers have published findings that dispute previous studies linking early puberty with greater likelihoods of young people developing mental health issues....

Early Puberty and Childhood Social and Behavioral Adjustment

Out Online: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth on the Internet

Decreasing High School Dropout Rates Could Save Billions in Medicaid Expenses

The United States could save billions in annual Medicaid costs simply by cutting the nation’s total number of high school dropouts in...

Well and Well-Off: Decreasing Medicaid and Health-Care Costs by Increasing Educational Attainment

-Full report- Author(s):  Alliance for Excellent Education Bill DeBaun Martens Roc Dr. Peter Muennig – Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health...

New Report is First to Explore LGBT Online Activity In-Depth

The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) has released the first report extensively analyzing the online experiences of LGBT young people....

Better Together: Building Local Systems to Improve Afterschool

Effects of State Medical Marijuana Laws on Adolescent Marijuana Use