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Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity

www.spotlightonpoverty.org This foundation-sponsored initiative seeks to focus public attention on poverty issues during the presidential campaign and to “encourage candidates to discuss...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

14 States Abstain From Title V

Fourteen states have now rejected federal formula grants for abstinence-only education, nearly double last year’s number, as the debate over the effectiveness...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Parental Consent Struck Down

Alaska’s highest court ruled in November that the state’s Parental Consent Act – requiring girls age 16 and younger to obtain parental...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

A Designer Addiction

New Youth Connections, New York My name is Dee and I’m a recovering junkie. I was hooked on the strong stuff. Ralph...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Tackling Tobacco

While smoking has decreased significantly among youth since the funding of anti-tobacco programs through the Master Settlement Agreement in 1998, data from...

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Promotion and Prevention in Mental Health: Strengthening Parenting and Enhancing Child Resilience

U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration This report to Congress promotes the aggressive use of research-based mental health interventions, combined...

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School Mental Health: Role of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration [SAMHSA] and Factors Affecting Service Provision

U.S. Government Accountability Office As of August, slightly more than one-quarter of the interventions listed on SAMHSA’s Registry of Evidence-based Programs and...

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Repeat Teen Childbearing: Differences Across States and by Race and Ethnicity

Child Trends Although the teen birth rate reached a record low in 2004, nearly 20 percent of teen births that year were...

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Substance Abuse Treatment Provider Views of ‘Culture’: Implications for Behavioral Health Care in Rural Settings

Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation The provision of culturally competent substance abuse and mental health services calls for behavioral health providers...

Research

What Does Gay Mean? A Survey of Latino Parents’ Perspectives on Bullying, Sexual Orientation and Prejudice

Mental Health America Executive summary available at http://mentalhealthamerica.net/download.cfm?DownloadFile=AAA548B0-1372-4D20-C827D1B06C3F9730 Despite the fact that 95 percent of Latino parents believe that their teens should...

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Magical Moments of Change: How Psychotherapy Turns Kids Around

Lenore Terr W.W. Norton & Co. 304 pages. $27.99. The story of Terr’s psychotherapeutic successes and setbacks with one highly traumatized young...

Guest Opinion Essay

The Price of Following Blind Leadership

New figures reveal a disturbing combination we haven’t seen for 40 years: Teenage suicides, serious crimes and drug and alcohol deaths are...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

The Well-Being of Measuring Well-Being

Since the social indicators movement began in the 1970s, there has been explosive growth in efforts to measure the quality of people’s...

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Combination Treatment Most Effective in Adolescents with Depression

A clinical trial of 439 adolescents (ages 12 to 17) with major depression has found that a combination of medication and psychotherapy...

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Adolescent Romantic Relationships as Precursors of Healthy Adult Marriages

Policymakers interested in promoting healthy adult marriages need to understand how adolescent romantic relationships – particularly those of low-income youth – function,...

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2007 Montana Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)

Montana says its 2007 YRBS shows a 45 percent drop in reported methametaphine use among high schoolers from 2005 to 2007, from...

Guest Opinion Essay

Youth Facts vs. Writer’s Fiction

In his writings for Youth Today and other media outlets, Mike Males has taken on a laudable mission: combating erroneous stereotypes of...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Gay Ban Might Get Scouts Evicted

How about this for a rent hike: 20 million percent? That’s what the Boy Scout Council that oversees Philadelphia must pay if...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

States High on Harsh Anti-Meth Ads

A graphic anti-methamphetamine ad campaign that features gory depictions of drug-addled teens, pocked with lesions and freebasing meth – is getting credit...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier