All posts tagged "Mental Health"

• News

  Assessing the Well-Being of Adolescents: Guides for Out-of School Time Program Practitioners

  Child Trends Three new Research-to-Results briefs from the nonprofit Child Trends offer research-based advice and assistance to after-school practitioners charged with looking...

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  State Estimates of Substance Use from the 2004-2005 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health

  U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) This annual national survey provides state-level rates for 23 measures of substance use...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  In the Mood for Evidence

  When Michael Young attended the first Abstinence Education Evaluation Conference in 2005, it “was almost like a pep rally for abstinence,” he...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Adolescent Sexuality: A Historical Handbook and Guide

  Edited by Carolyn CoccaPraeger Publishers188 pages. $59.95. An in-depth look at the historical progression and culture of adolescent sexuality. The first section...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Out Law: What LGBT Youth Should Know about Their Legal Rights

  Lisa KeenBeacon Press153 pages. $13. This guide for LGBT youth outlines their legal rights in simple, comprehensive language, explaining how specific laws...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Nineline

  Through this electronic version of its counseling hotline, (800) 999-9999, the nonprofit Covenant House tries to help youth in crisis over families,...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Drug Prevention News Wire

  The U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy has launched a free RSS news feature about drug education and prevention. Users can...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Web Watch for April 2002

    Education BBC Education Online: Count Me Inwww.bbc.co.uk/education/revisewise is a part of BBC Online’s enormous education site dedicated to children. Created as...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Taryn Roberts

  Taryn Roberts Chapter Support Coordinator Idaho Drug Free Youth Coeur d’Alene, Idaho (208) 664-4339 http://www.idahodrugfreeyouth.org Age: 22 Salary: $4,000 a year, for...

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  Drug Abuse Warning Network, 2005: National Estimates of Drug-Related Emergency Department Visits

  U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) SAMHSA’s Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) system provides data on emergency hospital visits involving...

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  Teens and Prescription Drugs: An Analysis of Recent Trends on the Emerging Drug Threat

  Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) This report combines data from national studies and published reports to show trends in illegal...

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  FY 2008 Federal Drug Budget: Prevention Funding Continues to Decline

  Carnevale Associates Spending on federal anti-drug programs will decline under the Bush administration’s 2008 proposed drug-control budget – reflecting a decline in...

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  Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking

  National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration The agencies behind this report...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Healing Parents: Helping Wounded Children Learn to Trust and Love

  Michael Orlans and Terry M. Levy CWLA Press 304 pages. $34.95. A guide for parents and residential caregivers who are trying to...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Massive Sex Offender Database Created

  The National Center on Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) received an unexpected windfall last month when MySpace gave the group access to...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Rosco Kickingstone, GLBTQ Peer Outreach Worker

  Rosco Kickingstone Peace for the Streets by Kids from the Streets, Seattle (206) 726-8500 http://www.psks.org Age: 21 Salary: $8.50 an hour About...

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  Preventing Teen Motor Crashes: Contributions from the Behavioral and Social Sciences: Workshop Report

  The National Academies This report summarizes presentations and discussions from a workshop where participants from various disciplines gathered to explore how the...

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  Regulating Teenage Abortion in the United States: Politics and Policy

  International Journal of Law, Policy, and the Family More than three decades after Roe v. Wade, there is little constitutional wiggle room...

• Research

  Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth: An Epidemic of Homelessness

  National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute and the National Coalition for the Homeless Available at: http://www.thetaskforce.org/reports_and_research/homeless_youth It’s a statistic that...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  The Clinical Assessment of Children and Adolescents

  Edited by Steven Smith and Leonard HandlerLawrence Erlbaum Associates628 pages. $95. A handbook for clinicians working with younger populations that outlines the...