All posts tagged "Mental Health"

Autism Subcommittee Making Final Edits for Strategic Plan

Tuesday, the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee’s (IACC) Subcommittee for Services Research and Policy held a teleconference to address several alterations to the...

Rocking the Cradle: Ensuring the Rights of Parents with Disabilities and Their Children

By Choice, Not by Chance: Family Planning, Human Rights and Development

Video Visits for Children Whose Parents Are Incarcerated: In Whose Best Interest?

The Future Factor: The Influence of Spectrum Disorder Students in America’s Colleges

Experts evaluate how more inclusive programs can not only improve conditions for students with autism spectrum disorders, but change prevailing perspectives on...

The Next Wave: Autistic Students in Higher Education

Over the next decade, more students with autism spectrum disorders are expected to enroll in America’s universities than ever before. And according...

Hurt 2.0: Inside the World of Today’s Teenagers

  Hurt 2.0: Inside the World of Today’s Teenagers  Chap Clark  Baker Academic  264 pages  More than 55,000 readers of the first edition...

Canadian Researchers Examine Link Between Cyberbullying and Teen Suicide

In evaluating 41 cases in which young people, allegedly the victims of cyberbullying, killed themselves, researchers at Nova Scotia’s Dalhousie University have released...

New Study Examines Victimization as Motivator in Adolescent Suicide Ideation

A new study published in the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine this week examined the effects of recent victimization – such as...

Young People Abusing Painkillers at Rate 40 Percent Higher Than Older Age Groups

According to a new study recently published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, today’s teens and young adults are using prescription painkillers...

Forced From Home: The Lost Boys and Girls of Central America

Growing Up Locked Down: Youth in Solitary Confinement in Jails and Prisons Across the United States

California’s Ban on Reparative Therapy for Minors Gains Advocates Attention

The focus of many gay rights advocates is on the West Coast to gauge whether a new California law banning therapy to...

CDC: Smoking in Top-Grossing US Movies, 2011

Exposure of African American Youth to Alcohol Advertising, 2008-2009

California First to Ban Controversial ‘Gay Cure’ Therapy for Young People

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law last month the first statewide ban on therapies that claim to “cure” homosexual teens. The...

Grants Awarded: July – September 2012

    Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation http://www.gatesfoundation.org/ (206) 709-3100 Seattle, WA Athabasca University, to provide conference support to Massive Open Online...

Queer Youth Fund Announces Half A Million in Grants to Organizations Serving LGBT Youth

Tuesday, the Liberty Hill Foundation announced $500,000 in grants would be given to five community-based organizations serving LGBTQ youth. The multi-year grants...

Results from the 2011 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)

Report: Perceptions of Risk Affect Teen Substance Use

More teens now perceive using marijuana once or twice a week to be a lower risk to their health than smoking cigarettes...