All posts tagged "Mental Health"

“Got Rights Project” Seeks to Inform LGBT Students of Legal Rights

This month, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) and The Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth (BAGLY) have...

QR Code Condoms Used by Young Adults

Young people using social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and the location-based Foursquare are often criticized for posting photos from drunken...

Sexual Experience and Contraceptive Use Among Female Teens — United States, 1995, 2002, and 2006–2010

Teen Contraception: Use on the Rise, Says CDC

Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) unveiled new data suggesting more teen girls are using birth control. Part of...

Grants Awarded – Week of April 30th, 2012

  Students in Free Enterprise and Lowe’s TO: United Neighborhood Center$2000-To build a new playground and exercise area for kids.   CarMax...

States Not Reducing Youth Exposure to Alcohol Ads

A new study finds that states are failing to do much if anything to keep young people from being exposed to advertisements...

Analysis of Obama’s Budget Proposal as it Relates to Youth Issues

“A breakdown and analysis of the President’s 2013 budget proposal as it relates to children and families.”

Ohio Juvenile Sex Offender Ruling Spotlights National Policy

Juvenile sex offenders in Ohio will no longer be required to register as sex offenders for life, the state’s Supreme Court ruled...

New Smartphone App Aims to Prevent Date Rape

A recently released iPhone app may help teenagers and college students take a stand against sexual violence, according to Nancy Schwatzman founder and...

Reclaiming Future’s JMATE Updates and Live Blog

Our friends at Reclaiming Futures have settled in at the Joint Meeting of Adolescent Treatment Effiectiveness (JMATE) and have been live blogging the whole...

Young Inmates Doing Thyme in the Prison Garden

On a football-field-sized stretch of land beside the Walton County Jail in tiny Monroe, Ga., a tractor tiller turned weed-choked rows of...

Post-Penn State Paranoia Moves West

It’s hard to imagine an elementary school where the challenges would be greater: 1,500 students in one building, almost all of them...

A Look at Youth-Related Spending in Obama’s 2013 Budget (Updated 2/14)

President Barack Obama unveiled his 2013 budget proposal today, which calls for $3.8 trillion in spending and projects a $901 billion deficit...

Weekly Notes: PREA grants available, Walsh Act legislation, and next week’s council meeting

***Hope everyone who cares enjoys the Super Bowl. True story: JJ Today grew up equidistant from the Giants and Patriots, but attached...

Federal Youth Budget 2012

  Agency/Program 2009 Enacted 2012 Enacted Agriculture     Child Nutrition Programs $15 b $18.2 b Women, Infants & Children Program $6.9...

Weekly Notes: Helpful tool to seek unlikely partners in philanthropy; psych meds in the news again; big upcoming events in D.C.; and more

Notes is back after a week hiatus. We were going to post on Black Friday, but somebody pepper sprayed us in the...

Youth Risk Behavior Survey

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention This 2009 survey by the CDC looks at health-risk behaviors among young people in 9th through...

Rate at Which Psychiatric Meds Are Prescribed to Foster Youth Alarms GAO

The Obama Administration told states last week of its intention to find out more about their practices when it came to monitoring...

The Child Abuse Statistic That’s Scary, Ubiquitous – and Wrong

A 17-year-old and a 19-year-old go out on a date. At the end of the evening they kiss goodnight. If that is...

Expanding Child Abuse Laws Unlikely to Protect More Kids

High-profile crimes can generate watershed changes in policy and practice. The publicity surrounding the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson helped lead to...