Young girls with mental illness are three times more likely to become teenage parents than those without a major mental illness, according to a first-of-its-kind study by researchers at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and Women's...
There are few areas as replete with myth as heroin use. Common misconceptions include that this is a problem of young people, that there are a large number of highly functioning "recreational" users of the drug, and that overdose deaths are due to...
...Every student at Elmhurst, in the Oakland Unified school district, attends the expanded learning program, making it part of their normal school day. Classes begin at 8 a.m. and end at 5 p.m., at least two hours after most other Oakland students are...
Teens across the USA are feeling high levels of stress that they say negatively affect every aspect of their lives, a new national survey suggests. More than a quarter (27%) say they experience "extreme stress" during the school year, vs. 13% in the...
While counseling by phone remains far more prevalent, texting has become such a fundamental way to communicate, particularly among people under 20, that crisis groups have begun to adopt it as an alternative way of providing emergency services and...
The Center for Health Program Management, and funding partners Sierra Health Foundation, The California Endowment and The California Wellness Foundation, announced that $1.6 million in grant funding has been awarded to four counties to implement an...
The San Diego County Probation Department will head a new two-year pilot project to help improve the success rate of youth from abusive or neglectful homes who have entered the juvenile justice system. Such youth are at the highest risk for poor...
Often, talk of effective medical innovation means something high-tech and high price, but a report out today in the Journal of the American Medical Association highlights one that's anything but: The low-tech, low-price lay community...
Canada’s future prosperity could be at stake if policies related to young children fail to catch up to the scientific evidence. That was a key takeaway from a special symposium held in Toronto last week that brought together world experts in...
The National Family Justice Center Alliance has released the results of a national survey of domestic violence survivors – identifying major unmet needs and significant long-term health impacts from violence and abuse. The survey, conducted in...
Vermont has its first certified pediatrician trained in recognizing child abuse. Dr. Karyn Patno is a pediatrician at Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital in St. Johnsbury. She has set up two ChildSafe clinics that provide specialty child abuse care...
Women are being wrongly warned during counselling sessions at allegedly "independent" clinics that an abortion could lead to serious health damage, including an increased risk of breast cancer and a propensity to sexually abuse children, The Telegraph...
Jenn Oxborrow — domestic violence program administrator for the Utah Department of Human Services — explained that the people working with survivors of domestic violence are accomplishing tremendous things with limited resources. Over the...
Poverty sucks. By almost any measure, people living in poor neighborhoods, especially children, get the short end of the stick. They’re exposed to more gun violence, less open space, more dysfunctional homes and schools, fewer neighborhood...