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- 1From:Behavioral Healthcare (Vol. 27, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedProwers County Youth Center (PCYC), located in a frontier region of southeastern Colorado, meets the needs of youths at risk of out-of-home placement. PCYC is both an alternative to incarceration and a one-stop...
- 2From:Community Care (Issue 419)judy.cooper@rbi.co.uk The case of two teenage girls in care in Derby who were victims of a gang of sexual predators is depressing, not least because it comes on top of a week of stories pointing to black clouds ahead...
- 3From:Family Practice News (Vol. 35, Issue 16)Family physicians in New York are trying to do a better job of counseling teens on the dangers of drugs and alcohol. The New York State Academy of Family Physicians has partnered with the Center for Substance Abuse...
- 4From:California Agriculture (Vol. 67, Issue 01) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): David Campbell, UC Davis, Kali Trzesniewski, UC Davis, Keith C. Nathaniel, UCCE Los Angeles County, Richard P. Enfield, UCCE San Luis Obispo County, Nancy Erbstein, UC Davis Research over the last 30 years...
- 5From:National Civic Review (Vol. 101, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIt is 4 P.M. in the YOUmedia space in downtown Chicago. Teenagers are playing video games, creating beats on digital music equipment, editing a teen-made magazine, debating politics, checking out books, doing homework,...
- 6From:ImpactPeer-ReviewedThe global financial crisis of 2009 no longer makes daily headlines in newspapers around Australia. However, research conducted by The Salvation Army Australia Southern Territory indicates that disadvantaged members of...
- 7From:BMC Public Health (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Adult smoking has its roots in adolescence. If individuals do not initiate smoking during this period it is unlikely they ever will. In high income countries, smoking rates among Indigenous youth are...
- 8From:Community Care (Issue 72)Excitement and empowerment on the agenda to attract young people in new 10-year plan comcare.news@rbi.co.uk Children's minister Beverley Hughes has said the government's new 10-year youth services strategy is the...
- 9From:Pediatric News (Vol. 49, Issue 12)Tobacco addiction and smoke exposure are among the leading causes of preventable and premature death and disability in the United States and elsewhere in the world. The landmark 2012 Surgeon General's report, Preventing...
- 10From:Social Work Research (Vol. 25, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCommunity-based youth shelters represent the primary method of intervention for runaway youths and are mandated to reunify youths with their families. The study discussed in this article pursued two research questions:...
- 11From:BMC Public Health (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Youth health risk behaviors, including substance use (psychoactive substances including alcohol and illicit drugs), have been the subject of relatively limited study to date in Middle Eastern countries....
- 12From:Human Rights (Vol. 47, Issue 1)Returning home from college this past spring, my 20-year-old trans son mentioned that a friend was staying at school. "Is she working at the theater?" I asked. The college has a popular theater program, and it's common...
- 13From:CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTheory suggests that community organizations and networks are essential to promoting the socioeconomic integration of disconnected youth--particularly disconnected youth of Puerto Rican and Dominican Latino ethnic...
- 14From:Adolescence (Vol. 34, Issue 136) Peer-ReviewedNATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL, INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE. Protecting Youth at Work: Health, Safety, and Development of Working Children and Adolescents in the United States. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1998. 318pp....
- 15From:National Civic Review (Vol. 101, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn 2011, the Miami-Dade Public Library System (MDPLS) received a grant from the James S. and John L. Knight Foundation to establish YOUmedia Miami following the model of the successful YOUmedia project of the Chicago...
- 16From:Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy (Vol. 51, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedYouth with a history of mental health concerns, trauma, aggression, and/or loss are vulnerable to high-risk behaviours and negative outcomes. Attachment-based therapy is investigated here to provide more effective...
- 17From:Clinical Psychiatry News (Vol. 35, Issue 7)AUSTIN, TEX. -- Adolescents who smoke infrequently or occasionally are prime candidates for smoking cessation counseling, Kathleen A. Kealey said in a poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for...
- 18From:BMC Public Health (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Youth focused Life Skills Education and Counseling Services (YLSECS) program, trained teachers/National Service Scheme (NSS) officers to deliver Life Skills Education (LSE) and counseling services to...
- 19From:Journal of Pan African Studies (Vol. 5, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe essence of governance and representative democracy is for elected leaders to formulate and implement appropriate policies on behalf of the people to deal with the quagmires of poverty and under-development among...
- 20From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 29, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the UK, media focus on youth and violence has drawn attention to '[T]he perceived problem of youth violence', which has 'served to create a new "moral panic" and "social threat"' in that country. This paper explores...