Hope everyone out there in juvenile justice land had a wonderful start to 2011! Rumors of Weekly Notes’ demise have been greatly...
Association between Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Young Adults’ Self-reported Abstinence Pediatrics Self-reported sexual behavior – the lodestar of much research on teens’...
Sex: A Book for Teens: An Uncensored Guide to Your Body, Sex, and SafetyNikol HaslerZest Books/Orange Avenue Publishing192 pages. Aimed at ages...
Are You Living an Upside-Down Life? Book 5 in the Arise-Sprouts Teen Pregnancy Awareness SeriesArise Foundation116 pages. This fifth and final book...
The Gloucester 18: The Realities of Teen PregnancyDirected by John Michael Williams; produced by Kristen GriecoMedia Education Foundation67 minutes. DVD: $195 college...
We might be reading the tea leaves too much here, but it seems that multiple factors may align to spur an investment...
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth are the target of a new task force of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention,...
Data from the Justice Department’s long-term Pathways to Desistance study do not establish a causal link between serious juvenile offending and substance...
Center for American Progress This paper shows that despite the recently highly publicized suicides of gay teens, their deaths do not mark...
Note: This piece was corrected on December 16 to clarify that the legislation, not the Department of Justice, is responsible for the...
For the second year in a row, more teens reported using marijuana in the past 30 days than the number that reported...
***There is still no nominee to lead the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Everything we have heard points to Massachusetts...
Over the past few months we’ve seen plenty of news stories about celebrities going in and out of jail and fed-up flight...
***States have until July to pass legislation that establishes a federally-compliant sex offender database; look for those conversations to start in earnest...
I love Mad Men. I don’t know if it’s because I grew up in the time period it takes place, the early...
The Department of Education has notified schools and colleges that it intends to penalize systems that refuse to address pervasive problems with...
When a 15-year-old Indiana boy who had been taunted because he was gay hanged himself in September, Dan Savage, a columnist for...
The Department of Education put schools on notice this week that failure to police a pattern of bullying could result in a...
Teens in California can now receive counseling from licensed social workers without the consent of their parents after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed...
LGBTQ [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer] youth have been a rising topic in the media as of late and the circumstances...