All posts tagged "Mental Health"

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Mad Men and My Own Tobacco Pledge

  I love Mad Men. I don’t know if it’s because I grew up in the time period it takes place, the early...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Education Department Warns Schools on Bullying

  The Department of Education has notified schools and colleges that it intends to penalize systems that refuse to address pervasive problems with...

• News

  It Gets Better’: A Message Resonates

  When a 15-year-old Indiana boy who had been taunted because he was gay hanged himself in September, Dan Savage, a columnist for...

• News

  Use of Title IX Has Worked against Sexual Orientation Bullying

  The Department of Education put schools on notice this week that failure to police a pattern of bullying could result in a...

• California Teens Can Seek Counseling Without Consent

  Teens in California can now receive counseling from licensed social workers without the consent of their parents after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed...

• Gay Youth Rock, Despite Hardships

  LGBTQ [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer] youth have been a rising topic in the media as of late and the circumstances...

• News

  Education Department to Schools: Protect Against Bullying or Risk Federal Funding

  The Department of Education (DOE) notified schools and colleges today that it intends to penalize systems that refuse to address pervasive problems...

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  Vital Signs: Binge Drinking

  This new publication portrays binge drinking as a growing public health problem that affects all ages – not just a high school...

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  An Update to ‘Simulating the Effect of the ‘Great Recession’ on Poverty’

  Brookings Institution Center on Children & Families A new study suggests that the economic recession will continue to affect national poverty levels...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  ‘Hope Springs Eternal,’ according to Gallup Poll

  It is one thing for the poet Alexander Pope to suggest that “hope springs eternal in the human breast.” It is another...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Promise Winners Named, Future Funds in Doubt

  Twenty-one communities have been chosen to participate in one of the Obama administration’s most coveted new youth-related grant programs: the Promise Neighborhoods...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Pregnancy Prevention Grants Awarded

   The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced $188 million in teen pregnancy prevention grants Thursday. Most of the grants...

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  School District Wellness Policies

  School District Wellness Policies: Evaluating Progress and Potential for Improving Children’s Health Three Years After the Federal Mandate Robert Wood Johnson Foundation...

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  National Survey on Drug Use and Health

  National Survey on Drug Use and Health U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration The newest annual National Survey on Drug...

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  Child Poverty Rises

  Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2009 U.S. Census Bureau The child poverty rate rose last year to...

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  Characteristics of Bullying, Bullying Victims, and Schools

  What Characteristics of Bullying, Bullying Victims, and Schools Are Associated with Increased Reporting of Bullying to School Officials? National Center for Education...

• Weekly Notes: Interesting recs discussed by JJ Council; new Youtube video pushes reauthorization; and more

  ***First, a quick teaser for “Psych Meds Behind Bars,” a major story coming out in the October edition of Youth Today, which...

• News

  Gay Adoption Ban Overturned in Florida

  Florida’s ban on adoptions by gay people is unconstitutional, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday, clearing the way for homosexuals to adopt...

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  Closing a Community Helped the Kids

  CHA Transformation: Children and Youth Urban Institute Closing down a troubled public housing community appears to have helped the children. The closing...

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  School District Wellness Policies: Evaluating Progress and Potential for Improving Children’s Health Three Years After the Federal Mandate

  Recognizing that the structure of a school environment, coupled with widespread national participation in school-based nutrition programs, could be used to promote...