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Summarizes data on suicidal thoughts, attempts, and deaths and also describes risk and protective factors that are common among college and university students.
Summarizes a longitudinal study that found that African American youth living in extremely impoverished neighborhoods have a nearly 36-percent risk of attempting suicide by the time they reached the age of 20.
Provides preliminary lessons about community college involvement in apprenticeship collected through a survey and select interviews from 38 colleges that are workforce development leaders. They demonstrate how community colleges can impact diversity in apprenticeship programs, and the support they would need to do it.
Details how underage drinkers (ages 12 to 20) who were treated in hospital emergency departments were more than twice as likely to wind up with a serious health outcome if they also used drugs at the same time. This data spotlight brief also describes the importance role parents and adult caregivers can play in preventing alcohol use among this age group.
Spotlights the findings of a July 2018 forum of campus safety leaders and subject-matter experts, with support from the National Center for Campus Public Safety (NCCPS). The purpose of the forum was to discuss campus safety’s role and strategies for preventing violence in college and university campus communities. It also provided potential solutions and recommendations for addressing challenges associated with preventing violence.
Provides an in-depth look at how disconnected youth are faring in cities across the United States, with data included on disconnected youth by state, congressional district, county, gender, and by race and ethnicity.
From the White House Covid-19 College Vaccine Challenge -- an initiative to get colleges involved in the push to vaccinate young Americans -- to a partnership with Snapchat, and incentives such as free bagels, burritos and meditations for those who have been vaccinated, the Biden administration has taken a number of steps to reach young Americans with information about the importance of getting the vaccine.
(THE CONVERSATION)- Even before COVID-19, as many as 1 in 6 young children had a diagnosed mental, behavioral or developmental disorder. New findings suggest a doubling of rates of disorders such as anxiety and depression among children and adolescents during the pandemic. One reason is that children’s well-being is tightly connected to family and community conditions such as stress and financial worries.
The Philadelphia School District will spend close to a million dollars over the next three years to station members of the community in targeted communities in an effort to keep children safe on their way to and from schools.