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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Weekly Notes: Juvenile Justice Appropriations set up potential battle of youth advocates; North Carolina partners invest in juvenile drug treatment; and more

***As reported yesterday, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a spending bill for the Department of Justice, which includes $251 million for the...

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Results from the 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Use of illicit drugs by youth is still way down from earlier in the decade,...

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The Impact of Bullying Climate on Schoolwide Academic Performance

Virginia Youth Violence Project The pervasiveness of bullying has an effect on the academic performance of students, according to findings from the...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Report Pushes Advocates to Seek Structural, Not Just Financial, Changes to Juvenile Justice Systems

The time is ripe for some states to reduce their reliance on youth incarceration, according to a report issued today by a...

Book Reviews

I Am J

I Am JCris BeamLittle, Brown and Company339 pages. When Jenifer Juana Silver was in sixth grade, she begged her parents to call...

News

Collateral Damage

What American news outlet hasn’t carried a heart-wrenching picture of a 5- or 6-year old sobbing uncontrollably as the father or mother...

News

The Plight of Unaccompanied Mexican Minors

In December 2010, Washington attorney Jennifer Podkul received a call from the Department of Homeland Security inspector general’s office, asking to speak...

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One in Five Teens Report Being Bullied Online

Nearly one of every five kids between age 12 and 17 report being “cyber bullied,” according to a recent survey that examined...

Judges’ Council Discusses Gay Youth, Checklists for Judges

Former Florida juvenile and family court judge Irene Sullivan agreed to check out the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges...

News

Social Media Use Can Lead to Mental Health Problems

Social media present risks and benefits to children who use them, but parents who secretly monitor their children’s activity on networking sites...

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Healthy Youth / Healthy Regions: Informing Action for the Nine County Capital Region (Calif.) and Its Youth

UC Davis Center for Regional Change, Sierra Health Foundation, and The California Endowment The study examines and documents the connections between youth...

Research

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...

News

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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