Feedin’ Fannie When a kid hears the words “Fannie Mae,” a lady’s posterior comes to mind. When an adult hears those same...
Violence Among Rural Youth Violence and Rural Teens: Teen Violence, Drug Use, and School-Based Prevention Services in Rural AmericaRural Health Research Center,...
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Child Welfare Substance Use and Need for Treatment among Youths Who Have Been in Foster Care U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health...
Los Angeles, Calif.(310) 423-3401www.teenlineonline.org Objective: To provide a teen-to-teen helpline with community outreach services. In a Nutshell: Teens are trained...
Child WelfareEstimating Financial Support for Kinship CaregiversThe Urban Institute This brief examines government payments to children in private kinship care (77 percent...
Immigrant Kids, Married Parents and Poverty The Health and Well-Being of Young Children of Immigrants The Urban Institute Available free at www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=311139 ...
It’s been 10 years since the nation’s fledgling juvenile drug courts began receiving federal funds to rehabilitate teen drug abusers. But despite...
The percentage of American eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders who reported using illicit drugs in the previous 12 months continued a gradual decline...
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Harris, N.Y.(845) 794-3300www.catskillregional.com Objective: To provide comprehensive health care services to HIV positive and HIV at-risk adolescents and young adults in...
Are the ‘Best’ Drug Treatment Programs Effective? Quality of Highly Regarded Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment ProgramsRosalind Brannigan, M.P.H.; Bruce Schakman, Ph.D.; Mathea...
Youth Suicides Often Exceed Murders In most states, youth are more likely to die from suicide than murder, according to a new...
Child Welfare Foster Home Scarcity Means Many Youths Languish for MonthsHartford Courant Because of a shortage of foster care homes in Connecticut,...
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Education Smithsonian for Kidswww.smithsonian.kids.usThe Smithsonian’s online museum for adolescents is excellent in its simplicity. The site features three exhibits at a...
Child Care MadeTrenton Times The 5-year-old autistic son of Alicia Day, a single mother of four in New Jersey, was fatally scalded...
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) last month began implementing a new process for announcing funding availability. The agency...
Boardroom BrawlForbes The magazine looks at the battles at the Ewing Marion Kaufmann Foundation since Carl Schramm became CEO in 2002. The...