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Archives: 2014 & Earlier

The Gloucester 18: The Realities of Teen Pregnancy

The Gloucester 18: The Realities of Teen PregnancyDirected by John Michael Williams; produced by Kristen GriecoMedia Education Foundation67 minutes. DVD: $195 college...

2011 Could Be Big Year for Some Juvenile Drug Treatment Programs

We might be reading the tea leaves too much here, but it seems that multiple factors may align to spur an investment...

News

Task Force on LGBT Youth Suicide Prevention Announced

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth are the target of a new task force of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention,...

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Substance Use and Delinquent Behavior Among Serious Adolescent Offenders

Data from the Justice Department’s long-term Pathways to Desistance study do not establish a causal link between serious juvenile offending and substance...

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How to Improve Mental Health Care for LGBT Youth: Recommendations for the Department of Health and Human Services

Center for American Progress This paper shows that despite the recently highly publicized suicides of gay teens, their deaths do not mark...

Walsh Act Watch: The Pseudo-Extension (Updated)

Note: This piece was corrected on December 16 to clarify that the legislation, not the Department of Justice, is responsible for the...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

More Teens Smoke Marijuana than Cigarettes

For the second year in a row, more teens reported using marijuana in the past 30 days than the number that reported...

Weekly Notes: Walsh Act, NYC sues NY, and finally a nominee for…Bureau of Justice Assistance

***There is still no nominee to lead the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Everything we have heard points to Massachusetts...

A Sad Situation from Rural America We Cannot Ignore

Over the past few months we’ve seen plenty of news stories about celebrities going in and out of jail and fed-up flight...

Weekly Notes: Looming SORNA deadline; Juvenile services secretary steps down

***States have until July to pass legislation that establishes a federally-compliant sex offender database; look for those conversations to start in earnest...

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...

Opinion