Sentences with phrase «effective youth health»

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Therefore, in order to reduce rates of behavioural and mental health problems among children and youth, broad based community and family intervention strategies, that encourage breastfeeding amongst other strategies, are likely be the most effective approaches.

We want to make all of this evidence accessible to anyone with an interest in alcohol - politicians, reporters, health professionals, students, youth workers and others - and to advocate for effective responses that will reduce the toll of alcohol in society.

«The high burden of early complications in youth with diabetes requires additional research to clarify the underlying causes and to identify effective intervention strategies,» said Dr. Dana Dabelea, lead author and co-chair of the national SEARCH Study and professor of epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Given the high risk of side effects from antidepressants, one may only hope that more doctors and health professionals will begin to look into the potential of using yoga as therapy to combat depression in kids, to give them a safe and effective way to help combat the heavy burden of hopelessness and inertia that all - too - often accompany depression in youth.

This year's new cohort consists of principals, researchers at major educational research organizations and centers, teachers who have been highly effective in the classrooms, an executive director for a region of Teach for America, policymakers from ministries of education, a founder of a volunteer organization working on programs for homeless youths, an education fellow on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, leaders of professional development programs for teachers, a director of development for a private school, and individuals who bring years of experience in the corporate sector and are now turning their energies to the education sector.

Increasing the number of youth with behavioral health disorders diverted out of the juvenile justice system to effective community - based programs and services... Read More

It recognizes that public schools (often neighborhood hubs), have a unique opportunity to provide access to effective and integrated service delivery that support conditions for high quality teaching and learning by partnering with organizations representing youth development, academic enrichment, mental and physical health, human services, foster care, early education, adult education, and family engagement.

Attention is focused on creating and sustaining Tier 1 supports (universal), Tier 2 supports (targeted group), and Tier 3 supports (individual) systems of support that improve lifestyle results (personal, health, social, family, work, recreation) for all children and youth by making targeted behaviors less effective, efficient, and relevant, and desired behavior more functional.

Vetter previously worked as Director of Programs and Services at Open Circle, a nationally recognized elementary school social and emotional learning program; consulted on the Second Step social and emotional learning program for preschool through middle school; directed suicide and youth violence prevention programs at the Virginia Department of Health; and consulted with numerous schools and districts on effective implementation of social and emotional learning.

The mission of the organization is to build the capacity of its members to plan, develop, coordinate, implement, evaluate, and advocate for effective school health strategies that contribute to optimal health and academic outcomes for all children and youth.

Counseling services have proven effective at preventing youth suicide, and as a part of a comprehensive physical and mental health program, counseling has been shown to reduce violence in schools and in communities.

By Anne Marie Ellis and Paul A. Alarcon Effective Jan. 1, 2017, California enacted a youth sports concussion law codified in the state's Health and -LSB-...]

Proven effective in 3 studies, RTR has been chosen as an effective evidence - based program by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Office of Adolescent Health and other national organizations recognized as authorities on teen pregnancy prevention, including Emerging Answers 2007 and What Works 2010: Curriculum - Based Programs That Help Prevent Teen Pregnancy, The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy; Programs That Work, 2010, Promising Practices Network; and Science and Success, Second Edition: Sex Education and Other Programs that Work to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, HIV & Sexually Transmitted Infections, Advocates for Youth.

Counseling4Kids is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides effective mental health services to abused and neglected children and youth in the foster care system throughout Los Angeles County.

Reinvesting in the Community: A Family Guide to Expanding Home and Community - Based Mental Health Services and Supports (PDF - 761 KB) National Alliance on Mental Illness (2009) Informs families about effective home and community - based services and supports for children and youth with mental health treatment needs and their famHealth Services and Supports (PDF - 761 KB) National Alliance on Mental Illness (2009) Informs families about effective home and community - based services and supports for children and youth with mental health treatment needs and their famhealth treatment needs and their families.

Counseling4Kids is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides effective mental health services to abused and neglected children and youth in the foster care system throughout Los Angeles County, as possible.

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Infusing Early Intervention for Substance Use Into Community Mental Health Services for Transitioning Youth Taylor & Elizabeth (2011) Social Work in Mental Health, 9 (3) View Abstract Discusses the potential of effective alcohol and other drug (AOD) screening and early intervention practices for facilitating a healthy transition to adulthood for youth who experience considerable risk for substance abuse disorYouth Taylor & Elizabeth (2011) Social Work in Mental Health, 9 (3) View Abstract Discusses the potential of effective alcohol and other drug (AOD) screening and early intervention practices for facilitating a healthy transition to adulthood for youth who experience considerable risk for substance abuse disoryouth who experience considerable risk for substance abuse disorders.

DBHS Practice Protocol: The Unique Behavioral Health Service Needs of Children, Youth and Families Involved With CPS (PDF - 107 KB) Arizona Department of Health Services, Division of Behavioral Health Services (2008) Outlines clinical considerations for ensuring effective responses to the trauma, loss, and anxiety experienced by children involved with the child welfare system, including cross-training of child and family teams.

Using Evidence to Accelerate the Safe and Effective Reduction of Congregate Care for Youth Involved With Child Welfare (PDF - 527 KB) Chapin Hall & Chadwick Center (2016) Highlights the steps necessary to reduce the use of congregate care as a needed placement, ensure youth are screened quickly and properly for mental health status, and broaden the scope of community - based treatment options for yYouth Involved With Child Welfare (PDF - 527 KB) Chapin Hall & Chadwick Center (2016) Highlights the steps necessary to reduce the use of congregate care as a needed placement, ensure youth are screened quickly and properly for mental health status, and broaden the scope of community - based treatment options for yyouth are screened quickly and properly for mental health status, and broaden the scope of community - based treatment options for youthyouth.

This research project invited 23 people with substance use and mental health issues to speak about their experiences of youth alcohol and other drugs (AOD) and mental health services, and to share their ideas about how to make these services more effective.

We propose that this intervention — refined and developed over more than a decade — will be more effective in engaging youth in services and improving all family members» mental health as compared to current standard practice.

Adoption and Youth: Critical Issues and Strengths - Based Programming to Address Them Freeark (2006) In Issues for Families, Schools, and Communities (The Crisis in Youth Mental Health: Critical Issues and Effective Programs, Volume 3) View Abstract Explores the tension between the resilience and vulnerability of adopted youth and highlights the factors that facilitate healthy exploration of an identity as an adopted peYouth: Critical Issues and Strengths - Based Programming to Address Them Freeark (2006) In Issues for Families, Schools, and Communities (The Crisis in Youth Mental Health: Critical Issues and Effective Programs, Volume 3) View Abstract Explores the tension between the resilience and vulnerability of adopted youth and highlights the factors that facilitate healthy exploration of an identity as an adopted peYouth Mental Health: Critical Issues and Effective Programs, Volume 3) View Abstract Explores the tension between the resilience and vulnerability of adopted youth and highlights the factors that facilitate healthy exploration of an identity as an adopted peyouth and highlights the factors that facilitate healthy exploration of an identity as an adopted person.

The focus of these programs is to impart knowledge that allows youth to make healthy decisions, improves emotional health, and provides young people with effective skills to cope with life's stressors, be they related to home life, school, or relationships with their peers.

Perspectives on Residential and Community - Based Treatment for Youth and Families (PDF - 114 KB) Magellan Health Services & Children's Services Task Force (2008) Discusses effective alternative community - based services for children who can not be maintained safely in the home.

Providing greater access, early identification, effective and appropriate mental health services to children and youth will help reduce the need for more expensive services, such as emergency rooms and juvenile detention, and better ensure success in school and life.

Vetter previously worked as Director of Programs and Services at Open Circle, a nationally recognized elementary school social and emotional learning program; consulted on the Second Step social and emotional learning program for preschool through middle school; directed suicide and youth violence prevention programs at the Virginia Department of Health; and consulted with numerous schools and districts on effective implementation of social and emotional learning.

Influence law, policy, practice and service design and delivery so that our child welfare, child mental health, youth justice and education systems promote effective human functioning and healthy relationships;

The paper suggests potential directions, such as whether school - wide mindfulness training at a key developmental stage could be more effective than interventions for at - risk youth or those who already have developed mental health problems.

Mental health problems affect around one in five youth in Australia and internationally, 1 with major personal, societal and economic ramifications.2 3 Children's mental health problems are primarily externalising (eg, oppositional defiance, aggression) and internalising (eg, anxiety, depression) problems.1 Up to 50 % of preschool behaviour problems persist through childhood if left untreated, then into adolescence and adulthood.4 Approaches to improving children's mental health in the population would ideally involve effective prevention in addition to clinical treatment of severe problems.5 6 Behavioural parenting programmes have the strongest evidence of efficacy to date for treating children's established behaviour problems.2 7, — , 10 Although effective, parenting programmes to treat children's established behaviour problems are cost - and time - intensive, and require an available workforce trained in evidence - based treatments.

Results indicated that MST - CAN was significantly more effective than EOT in reducing youth mental health symptoms, parent psychiatric distress, parenting behaviors associated with maltreatment, youth out - of - home placements, and changes in youth placement.

Our evaluation suggests that ROE is effective and worthy of consideration in emerging evidence - based mental health strategies for children and youth across Canada.

This study has the potential to facilitate the early identification of children and adolescents at risk for later health - risk behaviors and to improve the ability to develop effective preventive intervention services for these at - risk youth.

National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) The NCTSN works to serves the nation's traumatized children and their families by raising public awareness of the scope and serious impact of child traumatic stress on the safety and healthy development of America's children and youth; advancing a broad range of effective services and interventions by creating trauma - informed developmentally and culturally appropriate programs that improve the standard of care; working with established systems of care including the health, mental health, education, law enforcement, child welfare, juvenile justice, and military family service systems to ensure that there is a comprehensive trauma - informed continuum of accessible care; and fostering a community dedicated to collaboration within and beyond the NCTSN to ensure that widely shared knowledge and skills become a sustainable national resource.

A partnership between MCHB and the National Center for Health Statistics, the DRC was created to provide hands - on access to national, state, and regional data findings from large population - based surveys (currently National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs and National Survey of Children's Health) to advance the effective use of public data on the status of children's health and health - related services for children, youth and families in the United SHealth Statistics, the DRC was created to provide hands - on access to national, state, and regional data findings from large population - based surveys (currently National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs and National Survey of Children's Health) to advance the effective use of public data on the status of children's health and health - related services for children, youth and families in the United SHealth Care Needs and National Survey of Children's Health) to advance the effective use of public data on the status of children's health and health - related services for children, youth and families in the United SHealth) to advance the effective use of public data on the status of children's health and health - related services for children, youth and families in the United Shealth and health - related services for children, youth and families in the United Shealth - related services for children, youth and families in the United States.

Coalitions assess and prioritize local risk and protective factors through the CTC youth survey and plan and deliver adolescent health and community prevention by implementing tested and effective preventive programs to address elevated risks (Hawkins & Catalano, 1992, 2005).

Monitoring their youth at high levels appears to be a common and effective strategy by parents in poorly resourced communities and was associated with lower behavioral health risks.

Results of mediation analyses, by type of parenting practice, in evaluations of family - focused prevention programs identified as effective in Reducing Children's ASB by Blueprints for Health Youth Development