All posts tagged "Mental Health"

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...

Condom Use and Consistency among Male Adolescents in the United States

Although seven out of 10 teen males used a condom the first time they had sex, only half used condoms consistently with...

Household Food Security in the United States, 2007

Children in 323,000 households experienced instances of very low food security in 2007, up from 221,000 in 2006.

Q&A: Lawanda Ravoira, National Center for Girls and Young Women

The National Center on Crime and Delinquency has begun work on a major new project: The National Center for Girls and Young...

Minors in Possession

  THE NEWS-REVIEW (Roseburg, Ore.) Leading with the story of 14-year-old Jordan Baker – who was found passed out on a raft...

Childhood Onset Schizophrenia: A Life Interrupted

Aquarius Health Care Media26 minutes each. DVD $145 each. From the Keeping Kids Healthy series, these DVDs offer intimate views into the...

Teen Talk

http://www.teentalk4u.org This free national service provides e-mail counseling by a licensed clinical social worker to troubled teens. Participants’ identities are kept confidential....

MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership

http://www.mentoring.org The site features guidelines on how to be a quality mentor and how to start a mentoring program. It also includes...

National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children

http://www.nationaldec.org This nonprofit organization was founded in 1993 to assist and care for children who are in danger because their parents or...

Sexuality Research and Social Policy – Volume 5, Number 3

The September issue of the NSRC's journal is devoted entirely to a series of articles that identify major flaws in abstinence-only education,...

Interim Drug Free Communities (DFC) Program Evaluation Findings Report

This analysis finds that use rates for alcohol, tobacco or marijuana in the past 30 days among ninth- through 12th-grade students within...

Mapping Community Data on Children of Prisoners: Strategies and Insights

Reclaiming Futures Spreading Out…Want In?

In 2001, the Princeton, N.J.-based Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announced its Reclaiming Futures Initiative, which helped 10 pilot sites develop ways...

Sex Ed: Any Link Between What Teens Learn, How They Behave?

USA TODAY The debate between abstinence-only and comprehensive sex education advocates has been reignited by the announcement that the 17-year-old daughter of...