Youth Today

How Do You Measure Bad News?

Child Well-Being Index scores of family economic well-being project a decline through 2010. The scores are based on several federal economic data...

News

Foster Children Medicated Without Consent

Nearly one in six children in the Florida foster care system who had been prescribed psychotropic medication were given the drugs without...

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Children in Poverty: Trends, Consequences and Policy Options

Child Trends Nearly 20 percent of American children and youth are living in poverty - a percentage that has been steadily increasing...

Opinion

Don’t Blame Abstinence Ed

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) recently announced that births to teens in the United States had risen in 2007, for...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Coming Out, Coming In: Nurturing the Well-Being and Inclusion of Gay Youth in Mainstream Society

Linda GoldmanRoutledge/Taylor & Francis339 pages. $29.95 paperback. Linda Goldman’s passionate advocacy for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth permeates this...

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Exposure to Substance Use Prevention Messages and Substance Use Among Adolescents: 2002 to 2007

U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) American adolescents (ages 12 to 17) who received messages aimed at preventing drug,...

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Childhood Poverty, Chronic Stress and Adult Working Memory

Cornell University This study links chronic stress associated with childhood poverty to decreased brain functioning in key areas. It provides evidence that...

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Homeland Insecurity

Every Child Matters Education Fund This new report shows that the United States lags behind many of the world's comparably wealthy democracies...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Newark Plans First Program for LGBT Youth

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth in Newark, N.J., have never had a place to go for counseling, mentoring and stress-free...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

A Reason to Live

Cynthia Salzman Mondell and Allen MondellMedia Projects, Inc. 52 minutes adult version, 32 minutes high school/college version. DVD $199 for universities and...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Mpower

http://www.mpoweryouth.org Sponsored by Mental Health America, the site harnesses the emotional appeal of music to reach out to youth, with tips on...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Teen Source

www.teensource.org Intended to inform youths 13 and older about a wide range of sexual health topics, the site uses video testimonials, links...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Free Vibe

http://www.freevibe.com Set up for the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, this site gives all sorts of...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Weekly Notes: Drug Court Funding; JJDPA Reintroduced; Missouri Model Profiled in NYT; and More

Apologies for the absence of Weekly Notes for the past couple weeks. JJ Today has been hard at work on a story...

News

Teen Births Rise Again – What Does it Mean?

The federal government’s vital statistics records show a second year of increase in the birth rate among U.S. teens from 2006 to...

News

Obama Creates White House Council on Woman and Girls

Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor to President Obama and chair of the new White House Counsel on Women and Girls. Saying that...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

More Students Turning Illegally to ‘Smart’ Drugs

NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO Students on college campuses across the country are increasingly turning to illegally obtained prescription medications to increase their concentration...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Swimming with Crocodiles: The Culture of Extreme Drinking

Edited by Marjana Martinic and Fiona Measham Routledge280 pages. $54. A drunk young man in South Africa feels so invincible that he...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Amplify Your Voice

http://www.amplifyyourvoice.org Sexual and reproductive health policy is the main focus of this site, which features blogs, social networking and advocacy campaigns by...