All posts tagged "Mental Health"

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

OJJDP Suicide Study Shows New Higher Numbers; One-Third of Deaths Unknown to Relevant State Agency

A study of juveniles who committed suicide while in confinement – first contracted by the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...

Author Says OJJDP Buried Suicide Report

The author of a recent U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention report on suicides in juvenile facilities says that, despite...

Join Together, CASA Merge; Rosenbloom Named CEO

  Join Together, a major distributor of news on substance abuse and tobacco use by youth, is merging with the National Center...

The Evidence Gap: Drug Rehabilitation or Revolving Door

  THE NEW YORK TIMES Youths who struggle with drug and alcohol addictions often receive treatments that have not been proved scientifically...

Patient Teenagers? A Comparison of the Sexual Behavior of Virginity Pledgers and Matched Non-Pledgers

Join Together and CASA Announce Merger

Join Together, a major distributor of news on substance abuse and tobacco use by youth, announced yesterday that it would merge with...

Tobacco-Free Kids Head William Corr to HHS

[Note: This story has been corrected from an earlier version] William Corr, executive director of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids since 2000,...

Unclaimed Children Revisited: The Status of Children’s Mental Health Policy in the United States

National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) This report examines whether the "explosion of knowledge" that occurred over the past quarter century...

State of America’s Children 2008

Children's Defense Fund (CDF) This annual, comprehensive statistical review of key child data shows "epidemic numbers of children at risk" according to...

A Bad Economy’s Ripple Effect on Kids

Food insecurity among youth has impacts beyond hunger pangs, leading to health and behavioral problems that often require intervention from mental health,...

Red Sex, Blue Sex

Sexually active Youth and American Values: Conservative Christians’ reactions to Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s announcement that her unwed 17-year-old daughter was...

Child Adolescent Mobile Crisis Team

Parsons Child & Family CenterAlbany, N.Y.(518) 429-2391http://www.parsonscenter.org/services/ChildAdolescentMobileTeam.asp Photo: Parsons Child and Family Center Objective: To provide a community-based response to individual child...

Eight Stories Up: An Adolescent Chooses Hope Over Suicide

DeQuincy A. Lezine, David BrentOxford University Press, with the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands and the Annenberg Public Policy Center194 pages. $30...

National Sexuality Research Center

  http://nsrc.sfsu.edu/ Offering a comprehensive collection of the latest information and research on sexual health, education and reproductive rights, this site targets...