Baby TALK is a model program that encourages parents to read aloud to their children and provides them with basic child development information as well as suggestions ...
The Corporation for National Service has compiled tools to help interested adults plan and sustain after-school programs, from starting up and getting funded to ...
Sixty-one percent of high school students and 30 percent of middle school students say drugs are sold and used in their schools, says this study from the New ...
These essays were written by teens in foster care for a scholarship contest that asked them to describe how they have helped others. The contest is sponsored by the ...
This candid assessment of The California Wellness Foundation’s (TCWF) $60 million initiative, which has spent $35 million over the first half of a 10-year plan, ...
Prepare Children for the Tests of Life, Not a Life of Tests
Maurice Elias links the tragic events of September 11th to the importance of education encompassing a ...
America's Promise Alliance for Youth is keeping track of how young people, businesses and organizations in their network are taking action in response to the attacks ...
During disasters, many families suffer from the onset of sudden stress. Severe stress can disrupt functioning. Informed intervention can help families and children ...
Purdue Extension's Judith Myers-Walls has developed a brief report that discusses ways to talk to young children, elementary school children, adolescents and young ...
www.health.org/multimedia/ebooks stores electronic books that can be read on any computer screen for free. CSAP’s delivery of publications via e-books is expected to ...
America’s ultimate prevention goal is that no teenager ever have sex, drink alcohol, witness explicit media, enjoy free time not rigidly structured and supervised by ...
In an effort to provide a “solution as radical as the school dropout problem,” the Center for Community Change launched a three-year pilot program called the Public ...
This report outlines the needs and roles that state governments must play in reducing the demand for drugs through treatment and prevention in the wake of rising ...
In 1995, the Carnegie Corporation churned out “Great Transitions,” an authoritative survey of the research on early adolescence. Here’s the problem: How many youth ...
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OBJECTIVE: To curtail tobacco use by educating youth about the dangers of tobacco, encouraging them to be tobacco-free, and helping them encourage ...
The White House Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives was launched in the hope that “spiritual approaches can succeed where secular ones have failed.” The ...
Surgeon General David Satcher, flanked by leaders of the public and private suicide prevention community, unveiled his report on the first phase of a new national ...
This report, from the tobacco education foundation created by the national Master Settlement Agreement with the major tobacco companies, says more than six million ...
