All posts tagged "Mental Health"

• 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...

• Opinion

  ‘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...

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  Abstinence Program in China a Milestone for U.S. Evangelicals

  Focus on the Family, the conservative Christian nonprofit, is seeing its abstinence-only education programs take off in China after years of working...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  … Grow Self Esteem and a Sense of Belonging through Nontraditional Sports

  Many programs offer at-risk youth access to normal sports and outdoor recreation activities – from soccer to hiking – but few provide...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Dating Violence

  www.cdc.gov/ChooseRespect The slogan for this website, home to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s “Choose Respect” initiative, is “Respect. Get it....

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Casey Study Shows Mixed Progress for Nation’s Youth

  The latest installment of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s benchmark measurements of child well-being shows progress in child and teen death rates...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Abstinence Survey Stirs Debate

  A nearly two-year-old, federally-funded survey of teen and parent attitudes about sex has prompted new outrage among abstinence education supporters, just as...

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  Legacy of Katrina: The Impact of a Flawed Recovery on Vulnerable Children of the Gulf Coast

  Despite economic and infrastructure growth in the Gulf region after Hurricane Katrina, one item remains unrepaired five years later: children’s mental health....