YOUTH AND CHILD ADVOCACY

A review of non-profit organizations providing health care, foster care, advocacy, and counseling services to youth in Yamhill County.

Child on child sexual abuse reports are growing. Find out the 6 steps that will help you cope if your child has been sexually abused by another child.

This essay is an advocacy in saving the mother earth.

A term paper I wrote researching the links between violent content in video games and real-world aggression and violent action. The conclusion; nothing conclusive.

Developmental Assets and their importance in a community is frighteningly important! Come discover some minor factors that could help save an entire community of youth.

Do you have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)? Are you unsure on how to overcome PTSD? What has helped many PTSD sufferers and could help you too is journaling.

Americans have demanded faster, improved products for generations, from can openers to automobiles, so it comes as no surprise the same standards are being demanded from America's children.

Half of all lifetime cases of mental illness begin by age 14 and three-quarters by age 24. By treating cases early, disability can be reduced significantly and prevent the mental illness from becoming more severe.

Anyone can decide to take action and be an advocate.

I have written several articles having to do with health issues in the news. In this article, I look at what has happened since in three of those stories that deal with adolescent psychology, and medical ethics and abortion.

Children tend to adopt the values of those with whom they spend the most time. Parents are not only the chief protectors and disciplinarians, but they are also the God-ordained chief educators of their children.

1 out of 5 Americans today suffer from some sort of learning disability. This document will define the characteristics of such a diagnosis, and explore a variety of research including: symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, prognosis, and support systems.

Today we struggle to find a way to deter juvenile crime and keep our focus on rehabilitation. See research on the programs aimed specifically on intervention and prevention.

One of my more recent papers detailing the historical process of child protection in Western society.

These are only a few of the intellectual children that have went on to get do something great with their lives at such a young age. These children started learning early in life and didn't let anything get in their way.

In support of the educational agenda espoused by Senator Barak Obama, families of children and youth with disabilities may pause with Hope for a future in which mandates of IDEA are succintly realized from regulation to actualization in school districts near and afar.

Here is a list of resources to help the homeless in New York City this Thanksgiving and Holiday Season as the weather grows colder.

In the U.S. more children are being removed to foster care, seriously stressing the child welfare system.

During the month of May events are being planned across the country to help retain, recruit and support critically needed foster parents as well as provide support and advocacy for foster.