Improved care for pregnant women lowers rates of fetal alcohol syndrome and drug-addicted babies born to American Indians, Senior Editor Richard Louv reports.
-- The purpose of this paper is to describe the Spectrum of Prevention, a framework for developing multifaceted approaches to injury prevention. The value of the tool ...
Like it or not, America’s youth serving organizations seem to be slowly headed for the day when they will run nationwide fingerprint background checks on virtually ...
The Title V Abstinence Education program is entering the second of its five years of federal funding. While abstinence education has been the subject of much debate, ...
Child Welfare Work: Hazardous to your Health?
Using Participatory Research to Help Promote the Physical and Mental Health of Female Social Workers in Child Welfare
By ...
www.cspinet.org/booze/bzn_0898/index.htm provides information about the center’s Alcohol Policies Project, Booze News. The site is aimed towards updating advocates ...
www.ama-assn.org/Kids-Health designed to provide reliable children’s health information, this site has information for parents and youth workers regarding safety and ...
www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/OSEP/earlywrn.html the U.S. Department of Education’s new manual for dealing with juvenile violence is available at this site. It offers ...
Preliminary 1997 report
U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
(202) 443-8956
www.samhsa.gov
In late August, when the media was focused on ...
The punishment-laden juvenile crime bill known as S.10, which youth advocates have been trying to beat down for months, has suddenly zipped through the Senate without ...
U.S. General Accounting Office
GAO/HEHS-98-141
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Pregnancy rates among unmarried teens are slowly decreasing in the U.S., but remain much higher than in ...
Is it a case of life imitating "art," such as the violence-drenched "South Central" cartoon show, when a teenager yanks a blazing gun about wildly and cuts down ...
The authors identify three major stages of adolescent leadership development: awareness, interaction and mastery. The authors reveal how all adolescents have ...
