All posts tagged "Mental Health"

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...

The Children’s Aid Society

  http://www.childrensaidsociety.org Children’s Aid, which provides a variety of services to New York City’s at-risk youth, has launched a new series of...

Madoff Scam Claims JEHT, Picower Foundations

Youth work lost two major benefactors to the apparent Ponzi scheme created by now infamous financial manager Bernard Madoff. New York-based grant...

Family Rejection as a Predictor of Negative Health Outcomes in White and Latino Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young Adults

César E. Chávez Institute, San Francisco State University/University of Utah Rejection by their families translates into significantly poorer physical and mental health...

The Economic Crisis Hits Home

First Focus/National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth The nation's school districts are experiencing an upsurge in the number...

Sex and Tech: Results from a Survey of Teens and Young Adults

The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy/CosmoGirl.com About one in five teens say they have electronically sent, or posted online,...

JPI to States: Ignore Adam Walsh Act

JJ Today reported over the summer about some serious implications of states coming into compliance with the Adam Walsh Act, which was...

Sexual and Reproductive Health Behaviors among Teen and Young Adult Men: A Descriptive Portrait

Almost two-thirds of sexually experienced males ages 15 through 24 report they did not receive any reproductive health services, as opposed to...