Interventions for Addressing Prolonged Youth Homelessnessi

State-of-the-art office-based interventions to eliminate youth tobacco use: the past decade.

Tobacco use and tobacco smoke exposure are among the most important preventable causes of premature disease, disability, and death and therefore constitute a major pediatric health concern. The pediatric primary care setting offers excellent opportunities to prevent tobacco use in youth and to deliver cessation-related treatment to youth and parents who use tobacco. This report updates a "state...

Thematic Brief: Rethinking Interventions Addressing Youth Violence in Central America’s Northern Triangle Innovation for Agricultural Training and Education

Suicide Prevention Interventions for Sexual & Gender Minority Youth: An Unmet Need

Suicide is currently the second leading cause of death in the U.S. among youth ages 10 to 24. Sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth face heightened risk for suicide and report greater odds of attempting suicide than their heteronormative peers. Contributing factors of experience, which are distinctly different from the experiences of heteronormative youth, place SGM youth at heightened risk fo...

SaludableOmaha: Development of a Youth Advocacy Initiative to Increase Community Readiness for Obesity Prevention, 2011–2012

BACKGROUND Childhood obesity rates in minority populations continue to rise despite leveling national trends. Although interventions that address social and environmental factors exist, processes that create demand for policy and environmental change within communities have not been identified. COMMUNITY CONTEXT We developed a pilot program in South Omaha, a Nebraska Latino community, based o...

Promoting and protecting youth mental health through evidence-based prevention and treatment.

For decades, empirically tested youth interventions have prevented dysfunction by addressing risk and ameliorated dysfunction through treatment. The authors propose linking prevention and treatment within an integrated model. The model suggests a research agenda: Identify effective programs for a broadened array of problems and disorders, examine ethnicity and culture in relation to interventio...