"Pediatricians should consider the costs and benefits of preventing rather than treating childhood diseases. We present an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions over the life...
Lucas County, Ohio, will receive $1.32 million in funding from the Office of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), over the next four years, to improve and enhance their juvenile drug courts by integrating the Reclaiming...
" Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families impacted today by the Connecticut school shooting. " Parents, caregivers and professionals should know that trauma can be any experience that leaves a person feeling hopeless, helpless, fearing for...
"Researchers wanted to know whether certain types of psychotherapy would reduce mental health issues among runaway and homeless youth with drug and alcohol problems....The three interventions studied by the researchers have been shown to reduce...
" NCFY recently profiled two organizations that have put in place the evidence-based Sanctuary Model of youth care. In our newest Voices from the Field podcast, we get the history of the approach. Dr. Sandra Bloom was one of the co-creators of...
"The Attorney General's Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence has released its final recommendations for a national response to address children’s exposure to violence. The report emphasizes prevention and intervention and underscores...
"The number of child abuse and neglect cases reported in the United States in 2011 fell for the fifth consecutive year, according to a new federal government report.... " But what this report tells me is that we still have 681,000 children out there...
"This is an interview with B.K. Bose, who started the non-profit Niroga Institute with a few yoga students in 2005. Niroga was asked to help work with a group of delinquent young women in an alternative high school in the San Francisco Bay Area, and...
Yesterday was a big day in the lives of the more than 10,000 children who are incarcerated in adult prisons. And the 81,000 more who are in juvenile justice facilities. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) opened public hearings on the...
"Seclusion and restraints are violent and largely preventable behavioral health practices that are now widely understood to be treatment failures. They are the direct cause of as many as 150 deaths each year in psychiatric and residential mental...
"New research from PolicyLab at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia shows that one of the nation's largest programs providing home visitation support for at-risk mothers and children may not be as successful in reducing early childhood injuries as...
"Children suffering post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of traumatic events, including child abuse, may benefit from psychological therapies, according to a review published in The Cochrane Library. In the first systematic review of PTSD...
"ACTION REQUESTED: Please disseminate to your networks in Washington State the attached RFLOI describing an opportunity to apply to participate in a three-year evaluation to help build understanding about community approaches and strategies...
"In an effort to add to a growing interest in the long-term health influence of childhood adversity, Barnes and colleagues started by interviewing about 6,100 people who lived in Chicago and were enrolled in a study of Alzheimer's. All participants...
Restraint and seclusion in public schools has become a national issue this year (see: http://terrifyingdiscipline.weebly.com/index.html ). Children with post traumatic stress and autism spectrum disorders often have behaviors which put them at risk of...