All posts tagged "Mental Health"

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

Firearm Possession Among Adolescents Presenting to an Urban Emergency Department for Assault

Medical Marijuana Laws Don’t Increase Adolescent Use, Study Says

Medical marijuana laws have no effect on the likelihood a young person will smoke pot, according to a new report. The study,...

The Annie E. Casey Foundation: 2013 KIDS COUNT Data Book

New USDA Rules Keep Candy from School Vending Machines

Beginning next year, fruits and other healthy foods will replace candy bars and cans of soda in school vending machines thanks to...

Types of Alcohol Use Experience From Childhood Through Adolescence

The Comeback States – Reducing Youth Incarceration in the United States

Alcohol Use Common Among Kids, Study Says

Two out of five second-graders have tasted alcohol, a number that shoots up to six out of ten for 12-year-olds, according to...

Two ‘Cool Girls’ Beat the Odds

“You still have all this stuff?” Erica Gibson, a 32-year-old computer application developer consultant, cannot believe that Joan Thomas — her childhood...

Helping Can Hurt

Four years ago, a valued long-time staff member walked into Dr. Ginny Sprang’s office and announced suddenly that she was quitting. The...

Resources for Professionals to Help Prevent Secondary Traumatic Stress

National Child Traumatic Stress Network – nctsn.org This collaborative of organizations and individuals has a workgroup on secondary traumatic stress, and several...