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Addictions and drugs
Scotland: Ensuring
children don’t suffer from parents’ mistakes
Drugs easy to find, but treatment scarce
in rural Wisconsin
Kids are getting high on OTC meds
Better alternatives than jail for those
caught in addiction's web
Medical marijuana fallout: Kids getting
addicted to their "medicine"
US opens Internet addiction center
Australia: Abyss awaits young as teen
drug rehab closes
Children aged 9 treated for drugs
Liberal approach fails to change drinking
habits
Learning the hard way how to beat
drugs
Ode to recovery
Cannabis crackdown 'makes little difference'
UK: Mental illnesses up since cannabis
downgrade
Adolescents: Alcohol in Austria and
across Europe
Ireland: A rethink on drugs strategy
Drug-abusing celebrities set negative
example
Scotland's youth cocaine crisis
UK worst in EU on child drug abuse
Why Drug Education Doesn't Work
Dealing with Druggies
Healing Abusers
Anti-drug's 21 points for parents and caregivers
New Tactic in War on Drugs
The war on drugs
Skill not pills
Hawaii: Drug courts offer rehabilitation
We need a war on legal drugs
Joints replace fags in the playground
Child solvent abuse ‘forgotten'
O Canada, O cannabis
Huffing an easy high for youngsters
Kenya: Increasing drug abuse
Times up for helping teens
Anti-drug campaign conducted
Cough suppressant use in American
children rises
Parents see no end to substance abuse
Testing kids for drugs
Ecstasy teen's torment revealed
Saving young from legacy of addiction
Shock tactics aimed at encouraging informants
Dealing with the grim impact of heroin
Addiction breakers
Crack cocaine crime plague
Why it's not prime time for crime
UK: Child solvent abuse 'on increase'
Warning to heroin smokers
Alliance creates state-level methamphetamine
model
Addicts children to come first
Helping meth's children
Ex-drug czar shares findings
Child's view of meth abuse
ADHD: How to
survive with a wild child
Study: Performance speed and use of
memory in ADHD kids
Hyperactivity a result of poor parenting?
Kids caught in Ritalin crossfire
U.S. needs to get over ADD/ADHD
Attention disorder care gets a hard look
LA: Children rushed into foster care
Adoptions don't always pan out
Foster children suffer abuse
Conference focuses on foster care
Foster kids low achievers
Foster parents screening flaws
A grim burden – faults of foster care
Pawns of the system: "Aging out"
Horror story sparks foster review
Scotland: Fast-track panels ‘biased’
Study suggests ways to help foster kids
Romania and adoption ban
Human cost of foster care
The unfair foster care system
Reforming foster care
Foster care is un-American
Former foster youth have more resources
for assistance, but many unaware
Growing out of foster care is as hard
as growing up in it
Caught in a tangle of adoption laws,
children suffer
Answering “Who am I?” can be a long complicated
journey
'I feel like this is my home'
Hardship for children after foster care
Study urges end to residential care
for young children
Study: Foster youth hurt by early exits
Cincinnati children's hospital launches
program for foster children
One child, one therapist
New law a lifesaver for foster kids
Hard to keep foster families
No home to go to
Aids/HIV
Religious leaders
join hands to act on Aids
Aids and Hunger in Africa
Educating Children about HIV/Aids
HIV/Aids Devastation in Malawi
and Zimbabwe
Barcelona aids conference 1
Barcelona aids conference 2
Barcelona aids conference 3
Barcelona aids conference 4
Barcelona aids conference 5
Children and AIDS
Aids orphans in the spotlight
Street children vulnerable to aids
Zimbabwe in denial over teen AIDS pregnancy
risks
Myths and realities about children
and HIV/AIDS
Orphans and vulnerable children:
The missing point in the fight against HIV/ Aids in Africa
Youthful fatalism “shocking”
Governments, donors must recognise the role
of religious groups in caring for vulnerable children
Mozambique: preventing history from repeating
itself
Aids leaves 9 million African
children without mothers
Aids: children raising children
Malawi - children raising children
Lesotho - aids orphans abandoned to die
alone
Putting a stop
to truancy
Disorders are more likely in adopted
teenagers
New therapy scheme could help young
offenders
Deviancy training among friends
Anger, that's so uncool
Unruly youths face new crackdown
Family counsel: art therapy
Teens shunning risky behaviour
De-escalating student behaviour
Long-distance
learning certificate for caregivers
Young carers voice their concerns
Take a shot at this
Jobs plight of carers
Care for caregivers
Australia:
Hundreds of children in care face serious harm
UK: Concerns raised over low number
of convictions for child trafficking
Human trafficking and the commercial
sexual exploitation of children and youth in Kansas
UK: Important new research uncovered
at York
How child abuse affects society
Funds to be cut from bodies that fail
to report child abuse
Ireland: Neglect main reason children
end up in care
Ireland:The end of a decade of inquiry
Why children are left to die beyond
help's reach
Abuse: A nasty truth
More parent and community involvement
needed
Child abuse 'New Zealand's dark side'
Child and Youth Care organizations and workers
Harsh audit
of juvenile services department finds millions in federal aid lost
British Columbia: Ministry closing children-in-care
homes
Canada: More social workers needed
UK: Sir Al Aynsley-Green: Coalition's
'education ideology' risks repeating past 'disasters'
Protecting kids, privatizing care
UK: Social workers acted like 'Stalin's
Russia'
As more L.A. County children die, reform
still falters
A step backward for Maryland's most
vulnerable
Boys Town stays true to founder’s mission
UK: Young people in care
assess looked-after services
Ontario eyes lower child
care standards
Walking a fine child care
line
UK:Children's services
on a knife-edge in Birmingham
UK: FCA announces fostering
manifesto in Parliament
Boys & Girls Town merges
with another service center
UK: Care leavers need more
support
UK: Councils face £1 billion
care bill
Fast-track social work qualifying for
other professionals
Service agencies fear Philadelphia crisis
Me Learning - The journey so far
UK: Children's home staff must have
better qualifications
The Declaration of Copenhagen
The government database blunders that
put children at risk
Child care workers oppose changes
Professionals' views of GP-style social
work practices
2001 Annual Report from the National Association
of Child Care Workers (SA)
ILCYCYC
NACP
Stages of the Child and Youth Care Workers
Development
UNICEF
BC's CYC budget cuts
Canada's budget cuts
DHSS new goal is efficiency
Troubled children at heart of the
storm
Abuse stigma puts men off child care
How to fix the CPS
Maryville: Plan to improve morale
DYFS caseworkers speak out
DCYFS remedy needed
Trust and bound
Some perspective
Staff woes handcuff DYS
Workers tell of attacks
Under-funded system failing abused
children
Child care workers earn poverty pay
DYFS intensifies caseworker training
Childcare recruitment plea heard
Child welfare review begins
Veneman outlines policy for UNICEF
Youth work training: Join the professionals
Serious failings persist in care of vulnerable
children
UK: Youth centres
campaign against closure
Family advocates tout new Arizona laws
Interviews with 18-year-old boys
Tough enough? How parents can help their
kids handle criticism
So-called Facebook "panic button"
is about engagement, not panic
Time to turn around the fortunes of
Britain's angry teens
UK: Joint working - Children's services
in the Big Society
The twilight of playing outside
Looked-after children use art to express
feelings
UK: Rise in kids taken into care may
jeopardise other public services
Ireland: Children's rights body seeks
extension over amendment
Seeing domestic violence does damage
to children
Carribean: Focus to be placed on residential/foster
care policy
Troubled kids deserve a much better
system
A Children’s Commissioner for Canada
Helping our troubled youth
UK: Has your child been CAFed?
Bullying - who cares and what are they
doing?
Young people are stuck in 'catch 22
crisis', charity warns
Internet generation smarter, quicker,
more tolerant
Do you know what your child's saying?
Legislation represents rethink in children's
trusts policy
Only doesn't mean lonely
Curfew tames feral yobs of Cornwall
Court backs violent games in landmark
ruling
Making the 'scary, fantastic' future
UK: Let children play outdoors again?
Policy makers urged to listen to
children
Johann Hari: Over-parenting is the curse
of our time
Teens and technology
Teen party sets new standards
Raising our sons differently
Helping kids beat bullies
Labrador: A national spectacle
Hopeless, helpless and hooked. Our lost
generation.
Affirming children
Arab youth need positive images
A country focuses on adolescents
The first years last forever
Canada: Help more and criticize
less
China child policy yields me-generation
Katimavik youths coming to hope
Australia: Failing youngsters
Challenges Pakistan youth face
Australia: System fails children
Suffer little children
Japan's missing teenagers
Children no longer hunger victims
New rite of passage – gambling
New England: The high cost of teen angst
Celebrity is religion for today's youth
China meets challenges in child care
Unicef: Race to raise child welfare
Adult-oriented culture exploits children
Kids and laws
Children in other countries
The cost of wasted youth
Youth curfews
Some children just turn out that way...
Youth's right to be recognized
Struggle for survival
South Africans must value children
Practice of exclusion rampant among teens
Dropouts have their reasons
Rich city, poor kids
Australia: Transition debate
NZ: Youth justice conference
Africa's children's day 16 June focus
on street kids
Welcome help for kids without homes
Mall kids
An advocate for children in crisis
Young Germans and their vices
Why adults still matter to teenagers
When parents are too hands on
Teenagers behaviour worsening
Asset building helps children
Report criticizes the way Maryland
treats troubled youth
'Battery-reared children miss out on play
Bullying: take a stand to stop it
Family support key for stopping abuse
Inside the chat rooms
Children silent over bullying
Children stay poor in post communist
boom
Disabled children at regular schools:
inclusion isn't easy
Do we worry to much about the safety of our
children?
Education gap of care children
How sport can help children with life lessons
Survey claims children in care miss out
Youth justice conference: confidence
in justice
The power of prevention, the power of
one
Britain violates rights of child
says UN
'A lot of work ahead to combat bullying
State of the world's children
Kids talk, adults listen about underage
drinking
Children who can't cook ... can't sew
... can't save
Child poverty as bad today as it was
a century ago, says charity
Global youth jobless rate a warning
Starting the young
Confront problem but don't encourage hitting
The fight over video game content
Young people's stress
Germany's forgotten children
Australia: $3m to break bully's power
Boys or girls – pick your victim
Class of '04 consumed by worries
New hope for children who lost everything
Troubled youth find ear on-line
Adults to blame for children's behaviour
Children need more adult attention
Listen to the children
Parents and children lose the art
of conversation
New York: Unlocking
kids
UK: Secure unit youngsters 'miss family
visits'
UK: Brutal methods used on youths held
in child prisons
Canada: Youth lock-ups blasted
Florida: Cruel and unusual punishment
UK: Secure training centre defends its
record following assault conviction
Prison doesn't fix troubled youth
Turkey: Commission suggests radical
reforms to youth institutions
UK: Young offenders face sentencing
lottery, say critics
Thousands of children jailed – before
being found guilty
Suicide prompts new beds at St. Charles
youth prison
Handling of juvenile offenders questioned
Australia: 17-year-olds 'brutalised'
by exposure to adult prisons
Youths locked up for months awaiting
trial
UK: Need for international approach
to reduce youth custody figures
Federal report: Abuse at Ithaca area
juvenile detention center
Locks and gates won't cure troubled
kids: youth workers
UK: Review ordered after YOI inmates
suffer restraint fractures
UK: Concerns over number of children
imprisoned on remand
Florida: 3rd juvenile prison to open
Inside child prisons
Youth Justice: Five steps to preventing
self-harm in custody
Youth Justice: The alternatives to youth
custody
Private 'child jails' to blame for almost
half of restraint injuries
Back to the dark ages, still jailing
children
Facility changes its ways
Detention centre crisis forces juveniles
into adult jails
Island of last resort
Problem students in pipeline to
prison
UK:
£460million
price of kid yobs
Ohio settles lawsuit over youth prisons
India: Juvenile delinquents
treated harshly
How safe are Ohio's juvenile detention
centers?
Anne Owers, UK Inspector of Prisons,
speaks out
Editorial comment: A less punitive
future
An unlikely path to hope behind
bars
Teens in prison
Did bootcamp guards do job or cross
line?
Privately run lock up closure
raises questions
How Prison Damages Children
Children in Mexican Jails
Confined Teens
Prison Gangs
Sad state of youth prisons
Australia's privately run prisons
Youth prison numbers fall
Canada: Fewer youth jailed
Restorative Justice
At Risk Youth Industry
Juvenile justice – a model for the
nation
Prison inspector denounces treatment
of children
Juvenile jails and treatment
Treatment of offenders must
change
Why Blair won't admit that prison doesn't
work
Prison is no place for children
Trauma among delinquents
Critical connections
Behind the razor wire with Britain's
lost generation
Indiana youth doing good things while
in detention
Teens suit cites strip-search shame
Not many bars but youth facility still
jail
'Chemical cosh' threat to violent pupils
Nightmares in the nursery
Boy, 11, confined to his own street
Conditions in young offenders institutions
Plea to reduce child inmates follows
a spate of jail suicides
New science played a key role in decision
banning juvenile executions
Study says treating youthful offenders
as adults makes it more likely that they will re-offend
Prison for troubled girls has woes of
its own
Plan would ban workers from sitting on
children as a restraint
“Two wrongs don't make it right”
Therapy and education focus of Governor's
CYA rehabilitation plan
New correctional program designed to make
CYA more effective
Brazil teen prisoners despair amid
crowding, violence
Fiji: Hughes helps young felons
Exploring alternatives to youth custody
Connecticut: Suicide of inmate, 17,
stirs action
Alternative to jail for kids in US system
Youth prison update sought
The jailing of children brings trauma
and abuse
Benign neglect leaves youth inmates in squalor
Youth jails - the use of force a last
resort
Dads in prison connect with kids
UK: Working
with children to prevent crime needs better evaluation say inspectors
UK: A generation criminalised in a decade
under Labour say Lib Dems
Northumbria's new way of tackling minor
crime
UK: Police searches 'are failing to
take knives off the streets'
Youth crime deterrent to be expanded
UNICEF opposes lowering of criminal
age
Police bid for youngsters' trust
New Zealand: Interview with criminologist
John Buttle
UK: Mixed reaction to new youth crime
plan
New police initiative sees return of
the village bobby
Why tough talk on knife crime is not
the answer
Youth criminals to carry out community
service at weekends
PA youth crime prevention efforts produce
major results
Of shame and sentences
Key report says Labour has failed on
youth crime
Why are girls committing more crime?
Texas pipeline to youth prison
Stop reoffending
Too young to be a criminal?
New Zealands' Youngest Killer
Slain Child and Youth Care Worker Loved her
Job
People comment on Crime
Crimes Committed by Men
Tough Love or Tough Luck
Stealing
Surprise
Wayward Youths
Youth offenders in NZ.
Trends to tackle youth crime
Should it be a crime to hit a child
Teenagers that taunt the weak
Migrating gang culture
Juvenile offenders get a second chance
Japan: Youth crime is our own problem
Falling crime rate belies tough talk
Crime in one country
Preteen crime wave
Difficult to predict behavior
Australia: Our child outlaws
Reducing youth offending programme
Youth-on-youth crime
Newly trained social workers expand victim
awareness program for juvenile crime
Bill brings discretion to offenders
list
Three fourths of wards released over 13
years held on new charges
The new science of fighting crime
Next phase of Social Workers in schools
roll out
Crime under the spotlight at Victoria
When children kill
How children pay the price when mothers
are jailed
Younger and younger
Rebuilding normalcy at Red Lake
Crack cocaine crime plague
Why it's not prime time for crime
Russia's children in cycle of crime
'We want our children to be innocent, and when
they're not, we turn them into monsters'
Delinquent youth far more likely to
die and die violently than youth in the general population
Urgent prevention better than cure
for serious youth offenders
Neighbourhoods suffer as yobs let off
At risk birth register possible solution
to crime
Anything but child's play
Help break circle of crime
New Zealand:
Poll reveals backlash over smacking law
If victims are victors and consequences
real, then bullying will stop
Smacking is deep rooted
Cop who spanked gets punished
Smacking children
Physical punishment a health risk
for children
Can we stop kids behaving badly
Education chiefs back film hero to
improve discipline
Brockton's struggle to keep kids in school
requires truant officer to blend vigilance, sympathy
Punishment is no answer to unruly pupils,
says UK advisor
Unicef finds 43 types of punishment in
schools
Monsters in the making
Parents vs. children: Families in crisis
Bully for them
Neighbourhoods suffer as yobs let off
More effort urged to stop bullying
Pilot project designed to stop bullying
Adults to blame for children's behaviour
Children's groups warn punishment not a panacea
Suffer the children
Child expert wants smacking banned
US: Small schools
Alberta commits to 'inclusive' special
education system in long-awaited response
Parents of truant children can be jailed
US: Youth are being funnelled into the
school-to-prison pipeline
California: UC campuses expand assistance
for former foster kids
Film teaches teens about dating risks
Scotland: SABS launches initiative to
tackle bullying in schools
UK: School exclusions 'merry-go-round'
shows reforms are failing
The importance of ‘peace education’
in schools
'Parents allowing truancy are failing
their children'
Go on – tell us a story
UK: Sex education shake-up 'unnecessary'
say teachers
Meeting the needs of looked-after children
Teachers told to let kids play
More collaborative strategies urged
to address social ills linked to illiteracy
Rethinking early adolescence
The school for the pupils no-one wants
How to stop your child being a truant
Study: Poor kids lag badly in school
UK: It's time to fight back against
bullies
Help from 'corporate parents'
Reward those who dare to try
Michael Hart: How Ofsted is embracing
social care
Students stand up to bullying
Class Room Assistants
Early Learning Begets Later Learning
Containment as a therapeutic tool
Art to soothe youth
Principal defends tough response
Education and employment issues
Helping families can help protect kids
too
Iowa seeks ideas on new program
Listening to others
Anti-social scheme 'lacking support'
Nigeria: Problem of girl-child education
Nigeria: Challenges of the girl-child
Scotland: Dealing with truancy
Teacher of autistic kids looks for 'key'
Teach our children virtues...
Higher aims for gifted underachievers
Separating the sexes
Caught cheating
Education reform gets mixed review
Potential dropouts get extra help
Bullying image of boarding schools
is false, finds survey
Students learn harsh realities of
life on the streets
Inspection cuts put children in danger
warns union
Classroom revolution as chess puts a check
on unruly behaviour
Youth workers help to provide key skills
How war game is a real lesson in life
Special residential
schools in progress
Restore pleasure of reading for the young
New typeface to help dyslexic children learn
Homophobic abuse drives many pupils out
of education, researchers say
'We want our children to be innocent, and when
they're not, we turn them into monsters'
'Super-nurseries' to build up support
for deprived children
Take TV out of child's bedroom, parents
are told
Juvenile drug court graduates 3 teens
Duluth middle schools will get lessons
on respect
Students to work with disadvantaged children
on trip to Belize
Scots schools bridging class divide
Book program helps troubled teens
Indiana: Best
interests of kids, families
Broken system, broken families
Villages help raise kids within a family
Australia: Rarely a case of happy ever
after
Ireland: Support may stop children going
into care - expert
Scottish support for children and families
Reform of family and child care law
Students, mentors both benefit
Father's Day: Two viewpoints
Nebraska's family plan
Growing up in a world without fathers
Counselling for birthparents of
looked after children
The looming clash of generations
Daddy's little girl
Child friendly English scutinised
Separating without tearing the kids apart
Caring for kids in dysfunctional
families
Strong relationships strengthen families
Anti-family zealots
Parents deserve right to spank kids
Pay parents to stay at home
Struggle for survival
Agency's power over parents
Parents fail the test
Father's day
Group honors father's for being involved
dads
Raising the Grandchildren
Changes in fathers custody rights urged
Battered husbands trapped by shame
Parents feel confident but challenged
Achievement better for children
in nuclear families than for children in single-parent families
Get tough parenting gurus are wrong
Violence at home spirals across Bay
From street children to street families
Can you keep your kids' lives together when
your marriage comes apart?
A poor relationship with your teenagers
puts them at a higher risk of becoming bullies or victims
Parents vs. children: Families in crisis
Parents' tug-of-war and child's future
Family violence strikes men too
Why mentoring problem children may
be useless
What good is tough love?
Life lessons for a little brother
Family court: "sort it, not
report it"
Detached youth work
New home for
girls aging out of foster care
California enacts landmark foster care
legislation extending the system to age 21
Foster care placements
falter in Pennsylvania
US: Foster care population
drops again
Placing mistreated children
with relatives produces encouraging results
Canada: Foster children
get tuition support
UK: Foster care crisis
is costing millions
Foster care 'a good job
for someone else', as crisis risks being swept under carpet
Kids raised by relatives
face increased health risks
Presidential proclamation
- National Foster Care Month
Protecting foster care
children: The power of the powerless
Screening foster care children
for potential developmental problems
D.C. foster-child project
recasts concept of family
Surge in children in care
as recession stress takes toll on parents
Washington: External review
reveals systemic breakdown
Parents' role in the stability
and well-being of children in foster care
UK: Details on foster children
kept from carers, says report
UK:Councils are failing
to provide foster carers with information
Policies led to child's
injury: watchdog
Troubled foster kids lose
help
Foster youth: changes in
court when new lawyers take over
Same-sex foster parents
in Rhode Island
'Aged-out' foster care
kids face tough odds
Hawaii: Number of children
in foster care plunges to 15-year low
CASA gives foster kids
a voice in the court system
Longer foster care better?
Meaning-making in foster care
Fostering gains
UK: Raising age of leaving
care to 21
Foster children's emotional
needs
Better lives for children
in care
Kevin Brennan, Children Minister-National
Care Leavers Week
State reviewing foster care, residential
programs
UK:
Police, prisons and probation 'failing to tackle child gangs'
The wrong way to fight
gang crime
Canada: Gang violence requires
prevention along with policing
UK: Think tank says 50,000
young people in violent gangs
Shock report: Gangs replace
parents as role model for Scots kids
Youth violence: Tactics against
gangs fatally flawed - report
Defining the gang and other
street organisations
Gangs, drugs and our kids
Idaho gang summit brings new hope
U.S. passes tough anti-gang law
Parents warned of gang links
Knives are out for gang culture
NSPCC urges
more support for child court witnesses
Suffer the Children
The Child Witness
Youth Confessions
Long wait for justice
Courting disaster for child witnesses
Troubled
students learn to cope with hurt at home while at school
New
Brunswick: Changes to child protection services positive - social worker
UK: Support for early intervention
UK: Praise for youth crime
prevention
Alberta: Child intervention
under review
Children in Care: they
are the responsibility of us all
UK: Children left in legal
limbo as care applications surge
New approach to child protection
UK media granted family
court access
Keeping an eye on at-risk
youths
Australia: Cause for concern
The kids aren't all right: Britain's
angry children
Caring about care
SSW Professors evaluate, strengthen
child welfare workforce
What happened to the boy they couldn't
break?
A form of slavery
Early intervention can stop a life
of crime
Vulnerable children cry for help
Violent confrontations
Prevention is better than cure
Nobody's children
Irish youth program teaches tolerance
Police striving to deal with diversity
Dealing with bullies
Spare the rod
A harsh stance makes harsh kids
It's good to talk
Reigning in the rage
Looking out for children at risk
Larry Brendtro: From Coercive to Strength-Based
Intervention
Suspect's sister tips state to boy in
chains
Six-year-old offenders will be sent
to boot camp
Rescuing kids earlier from mental
anguish
Anti-bullying is a process but we are
leading the way - Cochrane Round-up
Rebuilding normalcy at Red Lake
Protecting the intellectually disabled
Storefront Group aims to reduce
property crimes by youth
County has new approach to troubled juveniles
Troubled youth find an open ear on-line
Serious safeguarding
incidents of young offenders revealed
Canada: Changes to youth law too tough:
child advocates
UK: Norfolk police deal with offenders
as young as four
Florida: Bring 'home' St. Johns County's
juvenile offenders
South Africa: Juvenile criminals fall
through chasm of state ineptitude
UK: Young people in justice system are
leaving unprepared for the outside
UK: Young offenders 'need more support'
West Virginia: Supreme Court approves
first-ever Rules of Juvenile Procedure
South Africa: 'Sensitive' law tries
to keep kids out of jail
Board - not court system - deals with
youthful offenders
Maryland: The toughest cases
Life for children: What
about redemption?
Do kids belong in prison?
Restorative justice brings
offenders face-to-face with their victims
Kids judging kids: Young
‘judges’ learn from real jurists in Brooklyn
UK: Intensive fostering
must go national, urges Youth Justice Board
70% of Northern Ireland's released youths
reoffend
Children in jail: lottery of justice
is revealed
Mental health: Justice system fails
to diagnose too many kids
Fixing North Carolina's juvenile justice
mistake
UK: Tories say jailed juveniles 'should
serve at least six months'
Juvenile offenders get fresh start from
Redeploy Illinois
Scotland:Asbos for kids set to end after
new approach announced
Scotland: New challenge for youth offending
Analysis: Some innovation in Louisiana
juvenile justice
Norfolk meeting explores racial gap
in juvenile justice
New Zealand: 'Boot camp' laws will take
year to implement
Sunset agency recommends merging TYC,
probation agency
Young Offenders' Institutes will be
replaced with youth academies
Boris Johnson's youth strategy rejected
UK: We'll create new youth-crime jail
to break cycle of violence
Australia: Teenagers could be judge
and jury
UK: Move to prevent youth offending
The child is father of the man:
Juvenile justice
N.Y. struggling with how to handle
child prostitutes
South Africa: Shaping a sustainable
child Bill
Issue: Juvenile offenders
can face adult penalties
When 'off the streets' isn't good enough
Juvenile center home to despair
Wales: Drastic youth justice changes
sought
Report: Juvenile justice system a mess
Call to lift age limit on child hearings
New York: True justice for youths
TYC remains troubled agency
Sentencing minors: Boost for Californian
bill
Unlocking youth justice
Ten years of restorative justice
Get-tough guy TYC adviser says:
get smart too
Restorative justice gets vote of confidence
Germany: Preventing not punishing youth
crime
Could you Give Them a Fair Hearing
UK uses restorative justice
Courting juvenile justice
Equal justice for small
Funding juvenile justice
Youth justice as a election issue in
Scotland
Should the US juvenile justice be
flexible?
Fewer Missouri juveniles tried
as adults
Pakistan: Juvenile justice at last
Give young delinquents order
Victims of the justice gap
Youth justice 'fails' young criminals
International week of student action
A solid defense
California trying to reform
juvenile system
Judical candidates endorse alternatives
to jail
Chaos meets order in the court
California urged to follow Missouri
on youth prisons
Dump juvenile sex offenders
Project for combating juvenile
delinquency
Mental health court helping kids
Juvenile injustice
Inner city youth face trial by teens
Courts still let down our most vulnerable
children
Aim of new youth court to eliminate drug
habit
Marian Wright Edelman: The injustices of
the juvenile justice system
Advocates call vetoes of two juvenile justice
bills 'moving backward'
Juvenile justice head making waves
with reforms
Erase charges of unconvicted juveniles?
Juvenile drug court graduates 3 teens
Georgia child welfare lawsuit settled
Boy, 15, overturns youth curfews
Just how credible is a child eyewitness?
Counseling, probation replace punishment
Aboriginal justice conference finds hope
Adult crime, adult time
Some 'Meet your victim' pioneer
schemes scrapped
Juvenile justice: where it
all begins
Juvenile justice assessment
Defining child in the eyes of the law
New youth law
Youths get away with murder
Thailand's new anti-human trafficking
act
Amber alert now protects all children
The Beijing Declaration
Decision for anonymity
Disability law and juvenile justice
The impact of Canada's new pot law
First sitting of Scottish youth court
Execution opens discussion
Supreme court to rule on spanking
Key child policy fails
The road to independence act
Stockholm Declaration
The Scottish School law project
Amnesty International Reports
Child labour in Canada
Challenge over curfew laws
No Child Left Behind Act
Police train for new policy
Canada: Early childhood agreement
NZ: Law rewrite to protect young
NZ: Interest of child to the fore in
new bill
NZ: Tamihere speech: Young offenders
Canada: Youth crime bill mostly empty
Punishing smacking
UK government downgrades cannabis
Hogg deals blow to child and family
cuts
Working children deserve better
Legislature must renew its commitment
Pros & cons of statutory rape laws
Sweet sixteen
Future judges endorse alternatives
to jail
Online obscenity law treads on free
speech
The Youth Protection Act - 25 years
later
EU opportunity to boost children's
rights
Board approves curfew for teens
Teenage magistrates
End of state care to abrupt
France is sick of alcopops
Stockton's Chaderjian facility targeted
in bill to reform youth corrections system
Efficiency of youth programs subject
of new bill
Human trafficking now an epidemic
Zambia: Govt. not doing enough for OVC,
says official report
U.S. passes tough anti-gang law
California weighs lesbians' parental rights
Ruling limits searches by child welfare
workers
Monsters in the making
Lawmakers change juvenile justice guidelines
Boy, 15, overturns youth curfews
Could we care more?
Charter details rights of kids
Child protection system stretched
beyond limits
DHS has become dumping ground
Guards detail youth's final minutes
Boot camp has little success
Children in care lag behind
other pupils
No direction home
California:
Mental health advocates sue state over funding
Asthma, suicide risk, and psychiatric
comorbidity
Oregon drug rules tighten for foster
children
Stress hormones predict trouble for
kids left in abusive homes
Wholesale sedation of young children:
Medically, morally indefensible
Recovery and community care: Partners
for success
Child's suicide raises
medication questions
Getting 'downstream' treatment
dollars diverted 'upstream'
Who Cares? Trust chief
urges therapy for looked-after children
UK: Young mental health service users
spell out what they want
How would I know if my child suffers
from a mental health problem?
Mental-health services earn a positive
review
Making progress on children's mental
health
Lack of knowledge often hinders
discussions
Call to listen to mentally ill youth
Canada: Parents worried about children's
emotional health
Who are we? Coming of age on antidepressants
Do they know where to turn?
Talking therapies for children
with mental health problems: the obstacles
Depressing news on depression
Stop our children dying
Are antidepressants dangerous?
A new spark for life
Second thoughts on restricting
drugs to treat depression
Experts say key for monitoring youth
on antidepressants, other medicine
Methamphtetamines ruinous effects
on children documented in Midwest study
Teenagers' mental health parents' onus
ADHD drugs not just for children anymore
Self-harm epidemic now starts at age eight
Fat teens on drugs
Pakistan quake victims psychological disorders
Bipolar kids overlooked
Karen VanderVen
receives Life Time Achievement Award
From East Oakland streets, a teen
rises above
Ellen Key: The Century of the Child
Christopher Beedel R.I.P
Holly and Jessica
Homer Lane on the Little Commonwealth
Honorary Doctorate for Henry Maier
Child advocate won't be muzzled
Volunteering is a 'win-win activity'
Troubleshooter for teens
Mr. Chips meets the feral children
Government
commitment on child poverty to be enshrined in law
Simulation reveals poverty realities
Children first in poverty battle
What Kind of World for Our Children
Zambia's children
Letter to two leaders
Frame by frame: the lost voices from
Britain's urban hell
From street children to street families
The question of street kids in Rwanda
Cambodian children's salt fields ordeal
India's child workers appeal for lost
childhood
Getting tough on crime means getting
tough on poverty
Michigan: Judge's
verdict: Adults are guilty of failing young people
Ontario: Teachers pledge fresh support
for northern reading camps
'Redirection' effort helps keep youths
out of prison later
Bob Herbert: A youth strategy beyond
'reaching for their guns'
California: Seeds of hope sown at youth
conference
New York: Treatment preferred over juvenile
detention
Jacksonville girls' program a national
model for intervention
UK: Restoring faith in discredited children's
services
The healing power of horses
UK: Young people evaluating services
Teenagers tell pupils the hard truth
about being homeless
Harvard studies Youth Villages as model
for nonprofit success
Program had multiple problems, managed
teen felons
UK: Boarding option works for some vulnerable
children
Training begins for at-risk kids program
California: Leaders meet on youth violence
issue
Program aids children with sexual abuse
issues
Public school's pupils see how other
half lives
Program boosts parenting skills
Teacher helps at-risk kids rewrite their
lives
The disconnected
Criminals' kids struggle to avoid
parents' fate
A positive alternative to court for
kids in trouble
Teen's family say cancelled program
changed his life
Reaching troubled teens
Florida community program
New program: Multisystemic therapy
Outward Bound program offered at
Five Rivers
Youth boot-camp abuse charges
Trouble for teen program
UK: Balancing crime and freedoms
Praise for mediation program
Police train for new policy
Children 'Should confront problems'
Looking out for children at risk
Climbing program teach students to
conquer fear
30 years of SOS Children's Villages
New support system gives wards of state
a boost to education
Program uses horses to communicate with adolescents
Girls in juvenile system recommend
program improvements
Mobile phones to detect adolescent depression
Who's looking after the city's caring
children
Re-Entry Program helps juveniles
Do youth services need improving?
Put men back in mentoring
Highfields: residential program reopens
No home to go to
BC:
'It's an epidemic'
Unpredictability a major
factor in risky sexual behavior
Report: Uphill battle for
MN children of color
Minnesota's vulnerable
kids stuck in revolving door
2 papers, 2 different worries about
twenty-somethings
Arkansas: Panel studies child policies
Violent video games may increase aggression
in some, not others
Report says more needs to be done for
Ontario's children
Study: It's good to receive, but it's
just as good to give away
Australia: No responsibility taken for
the kids in greatest need
UK: Better joint working could save
councils millions
UK: Only a third of young offenders
think prison works
Children in care continue to be targeted
by bullies
England: Children's rights 'being systematically
breached'
Revealed: hidden misery of children
trafficked to Britain
UK: The rights approach
Report: Youth home ‘appalling’
US fares poorly in child welfare survey
Children in Care Councils Consortium
first report
One in four school students around Australia
are bullied
New Zealand: UN torture report finds
flaws in justice system
UK: Social services failing children
in care
Children's secure homes report urges
a rethink on social care
UK: 'Just get on with it,' says Lord
Laming's latest report
UK: Youth Justice Board report omits
crucial data
Young offenders' health needs 'unmet'
Grand jury recommends cuts at Orangewood
Children's Home
UK:Studies profile outcomes
When a mentor does more harm than good
Spain: Parents control children's use
of TV more than Internet
UK children at greater risk from online
predators
CAFCASS publishes report on health of
children in care
Report: Kids bounce back to foster homes
if family problems not addressed
Children suffer most as US poverty rises:
report
Think tank: Mums need help to stay at
home
Resiliency among black youth
Annual report on education systems in
the EU
Scottish work on challenging behaviour
in children
Childcare: child's play is now a
minefield
New report: the damaging effects of
child protection policies
Care child parents 'frustrated'
The State as parent
Kids Count Report from Casey Foundation
Watchdogs tell UN Britain is breaching
childrens' rights
Study: Girls at high risk
Planning for different care groups
Early childhood nursery programs
Report: Kids victimized by the system
UK not protecting children's rights
Ireland: Opinion poll on childhood
Children's peer victimization
Nature, not nurture to blame for
aggressive children
Frequent care placements may lead to
crime
Scotland parents: Undermined, under-valued
and unsupported
Ex foster kids: No home, no health care
Failure to leave home
Violence in teen video games
4 Mil youth face tough road to adulthood
success
Court orders kids out
Youth home management faulted
Many wind up in custody not treatment
New supports for children with autism
100,000 children wait
Fingering the aggressor
Indiana - courts failing youth
Council failing looked-after children
Group homes
said to work ... but where?
Scotland: Children in residential care
'disadvantaged' in later life
New Mexico: Boys to men
The rights of children in alternative
care
Ireland: €90m a year to keep children
in care
Budget cuts place children's group homes
in perilous position
'We lost the focus on emotional warmth'
Social pedagogy system will give kids
in care a brighter future
Boarding school solution to care
Scotland: Child care services 'must
improve'
Pedagogues come to residential care
Early childhood nursery programs
UK runaways
at risk: London’s only teen refuge to close this weekend
Life on the streets gets tougher
UK: Our missing children
Find safe alternative for vulnerable
'throwaways'
Help I'm Falling
Runaways
Australia: Runaway teens
Few missing children ever make headlines
B.C. suspends
controversial testing of teen sex offenders
More must be done for LGBT homeless
youth
Speaker: Gender issues hurt kids in
foster care
DHS discrimination against transgender
teen alleged
Bullied for being ‘gay’
Vexed about sex
Sex and Sensibility
A Better Way for Sex Education
Children on Sex Street
Young Sex Offenders
Cleared
We Must Still Listen to Kids
Saving kids from sexual predators
Sex is not just for grown-ups
Sexual trends among black youth
Underage commercial sexual activity
Web wrongly blamed for child porn
Sex abuse: Brazil needs to change
Under-16s sex ‘not a subject for police’
Restraint and reality
Common misconceptions parents have
about sex and their kids
Driven to take morning after pills
Are condoms for kids the answer?
Treating childhood sexual abuse
Sex education the sex challenge
Abstinence courses flawed
'Chastity czar' hopes teens will embrace
abstinence
Laws may promote unprotected sex
Low self-esteem: how to beat it
Foster crisis for sexually aggressive
youth
Too much sex on the brain
Raising the moral child
Is childhood becoming oversexed?
Abused children often ignored
Comprehensive review of research into impact
of sex in media on youth reveals troubling signs
South Africa: paedophile
register
Paedophiles call child abuse line
UK: Rape statistics
The sex offenders register
Sexually abusive children
US: Young adults
are the new face of homelessness
Canadian study: Homeless youths most
often victims of crime
Obama sets deadline to end homelessness
Australia: Focus on homeless aims to
end couch-surfing
The runaways
Namibia: Street children exposed to
many dangers
Author highlights how society can help
the homeless
1 in 50 American children experiences
homelessness
Shelterand drop-in center: Place for
homeless teens
A triumph for Durban's street children
No place to call home
Honduras: War on children
Russian Street Children
Iraq street children
Romania street kids have own kids
Difficult life on the streets
Street children find refuge in sewers
Zimbabwe: Rescuing street kids
Begging for attention
Homeless teens expect life of
drugs, sex, danger
Situation assessment of children
living and/or working on the streets of Harare and Chitungwiza
Romania's blighted street children
How street kids found a voice through
searing art
Census gains a realistic picture of street
life
City 'must explain policy'
Alarming rise in number of street children
Rwanda's street children
The kids are all right
UNICEF to support street kids project
BC: Interior
Health targets suicide
New research: Causes of suicide and
the effects on those left behind
The threat of depression and suicide
among Latino teens
Dying to 'fit in'
Depths of despair
Previous suicidality greater risk than
medication in teens
Scotland: conference on teen suicide
WHO report on Violent Deaths
Youth Suicide
Saving youngsters from suicide
Swiss: Pleas for help to prevent suicide
Need to talk about teen suicide
Researching the causes of suicide
CYF project halves child suicide rate
Study: Suicide query wont plant the
idea
Dying to succeed: Fatal pressure on our
children
Connecticut: Suicide of inmate, 17,
stirs city action
Easy life risks youth suicide
Surveys and conferences
Ireland: 40,000
kids suffering 'hidden harm' of booze
UK: City in spotlight for tackling children's
unruly behaviour
Malta needs to fight invasion against
the family - British judge
Panel talk homelessness
Judicial debate on options for kids
in trouble
Conference examines teen meth prevention
2003 youth risk behavior survey
released
Men 'winning' caring profession sex war
Comprehensive review of research into impact
of sex in media on youth reveals troubling signs
Future for looked after children questioned
Restorative justice plan brings no reoffending
cut
US: Improving
outcomes for youth transitioning from foster care
UK: NCAS hails employment plan for care
leavers as unprecedented
UK: Care leavers make feelings known
to MP
Making transition into adult life smoother
BC fails children in care
Youth offenders transitioning
Teens taping
fights: 'It shocks the conscience'
A federal pledge to fight teen violence
Police in B.C. try to thwart bush
parties
Kids carry knives because of lack of
warmth and discipline at home
UK: Met extends powers to stop and search
youths
In my hood
UK: Under16s gun deaths rise
Boyhood and guns
UK: Only law and order can stop
knife crime
Disaffected youth in Belfast
Teach children not to resort to violence
Vandals
Global Violence can be Prevented
Women and Violence
Violence and black children in Australia
Is violence natural for boys?
Battered boys
Violence at home creates lasting scars
in children
Youth violence knows no borders
No-blame approach for bullies comes under
attack
Violent crimes by girls rising but reasons
why unclear
Preventing domestic violence
Traumatized children cant learn
Ontario youth call for end to violence
Judge haunted by Inara's ordeal
Rebuilding normalcy at Red Lake
TV violence: the good and the bad for
our children
'We want our children to be innocent, and when
they're not, we turn them into monsters'
Delinquent youth far more likely to
die and die violently than youth in the general population
Child abuse a pattern of experience
African meeting on UN study on violence against
children urges ban on beating
Bully for them
Brazil debates child and youth violence
Native community hopes to curb violence with
cadet corps
Real cost of violence on screen
We need to engage youth
Child soldiers
Child Soldiers around the World
Focus on healing and reconciliation
Child soldiers tell their stories
Suffering of child soldiers
My life as a soldier
Children in the firing line
Cult drags youth on sleepwalk to evil
The problems of reintegrating child soldiers
Forgotten child soldiers who want to stop killing
Focus on rehabilitation of child soldiers
Sudan: Southern forces still training children
Sudan: Darfur youth idle, neglected
Congo - children continued to be ravaged
by armed conflict
Iraq - children used as combatants
Working with young sex offenders: three articles by Grant Charles and Jennifer Collins
Perceptions
of adolescent sex offenders
The Treatment of adolescent
sex offenders
The dynamics of working with
sex offenders
Culture of
bad girls on the increase
Teen Girls' Second Chance
Girls and Violence
Work with Adolescent Girls
Thinking about Mary
Earlscourt:
A Model Intervention
Increasing violence amongst girls
Girls need anti-bullying outlook
Violence raging among teen girls
Orphan freed
from a life behind Russian bars
Not in my backyard
Homeless youth gets safe harbour
No relief in the suburbs
Group homes
Out of state treatment centres
Washington Post articles
Japanese CYC facilities overstretched
The best for 'bad boys'
Nowhere to call home
New role for children's shelter
Rights commission probes youth centre
UK ministers
under pressure to rethink entire vetting scheme
UK: Cafcass blamed for driving children's
guardians away
Delivering the latest ideas for children’s
and young people’s services
Toward never another sexual abuse
crisis
UK: Care Matters Implementation Plan
launched
Checking children in care a challenge
Court rule over children tested
Liberia: Disarming violent youths
Inauguration of SOS Children's Village
World youth report
Gala tribute honors Prince Philip
Namibia: Reissue appeal – no response
A Feminist's View of Caring
Contemporary debate on youthwork
Get in Touch with your Gut
Immigration
Total Recall
Australia and New Zealand's Children
New Research into Boy/Girl Differences
Style Conscious Kids
Social Policy and Self Esteem
Call for Children's Commissioner
Alienation comes of age
Child care month - nothing to celebrate
When there are no taboo
Father's day special
The joyless childhood
Why are our children so sad
Parents reconsider technology for kids
50-year-old records opened: Unease over UK's child migrants policy