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Weekly Notes: Remembering Allen Breed; Louisiana Juvenile Justice and antipsychotics; where private facility closures are happening; and more

***Justice justice has lost another luminary. Allen Breed, former head of the California Youth Authority and head of the National Institute of...

Overmedicating Young Inmates Called Chemical Restraint

Youths incarcerated across Louisiana and the New Orleans metropolitan area are getting dosed with potent antipsychotic drugs even when they have not...

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Seven States Comply with Federal Sex Offender Registry at Deadline

Note: This article was initially posted on July 27 and updated on July 28 Seven more states have come into substantial compliance...

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Early Childhood Policy Focus: Healthy Eating and Physical Activity

Child Trends This brief analyzes data and current research on the nutritional and exercise habits of children under the age of 6...

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Secondhand Smoke and Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Adolescents

Archives of Otolaryngology Secondhand smoke, the perils of which continue to grow, has now been linked to possible hearing loss in adolescents....

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The Multi-Site Adult Drug Court Evaluation

Urban Institute This new evaluation by researchers from the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center (UI-JPC), RTI International (RTI) and the Center for...

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Texas Study on Suspension and Expulsion: A Look at the Major Findings

A report on school discipline released this week by the Council of State Governments Justice Center and Public Policy Research Institute could...

Prescription: TLC

Note: This column was republished with permission from Represent Magazine: The Voice of Youth in Foster Care It all started when I...

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Civil Union Laws Can Spell End of Child Welfare Services for Faith-based Groups

Most states that have approved same-sex marriage or civil unions have not lost the services of faith-based child welfare providers, but the...

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Four Times More Florida Deaths from Legal, than Illegal, Drugs

Florida had four times as many deaths from legal drugs as illegal drugs in 2009, according to a report from the federal...

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America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2011

Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics The largest annual collection of indicators on the health, behavior and circumstances of American...

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Rising Enrollments of Students with Disabilities at Higher Education Institutions

Institute of Education Sciences College and other post-secondary enrollments of students with disabilities continue to rise in the United States – with...

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Developing a Tool for Assessing Risk of Inpatients’ Aggressive Behavior

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law This study assessed the Brief Rating of Aggression by Children and Adolescents...

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Treatment of Abuse of Drugs Like Xanax and Valium Is Up Sharply

Treatment for abusing benzodiazepine – a class of drugs including Xanax, Valium and Halcion that is commonly used to treat insomnia, seizures...

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Student Health Essential to Increase Academic Performance

California Healthy Students Research Project The California Healthy Students Research Project is aimed at finding a link between student performance and physical...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Weekly Notes: Walsh Act update, new funds from OJJDP, and more

***Well, National Hamburger Day (May 28) came and went with no announcement on who might lead the Office of Juvenile Justice and...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Anti-Bullying Programs Pushed Aside by Federal Budget Woes

Note: This story originally appeared on the website of the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange On March 10, President Obama turned up the...

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More Fruits and Vegetables in School Lunches but No New Money for Kitchen Improvements

Many school districts don’t have the money for equipment or training to implement the new dietary guidelines for the national school lunch...

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Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions Aged 12 to 14

The Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) Report, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration This report recommends more study of prevention and...