National Center for Youth Issues
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Dealing with a child’s meth addiction
Betty (name changed) was only in eighth grade when she, along with her friends, discovered meth pipes for the very first time. She and her friends decided to test them out. Soon, Betty was hooked on to meth. While most of the time Betty’s parents were unaware of her dangerous habit, she continued smoking meth …
Building Adult Capabilities to Improve Child Outcomes: A Theory of Change
This 5-minute video depicts a theory of change from the Frontiers of Innovation community for achieving breakthrough outcomes for vulnerable children and fam...
Warren Buffett Wants to Help Your Child Start a Small Business This Summer
Here are some kid-friendly business ideas and how make them successful.
How to End the Child-Care Crisis
A child’s first 1,000 days are a time to be seized.
10 Things to Do When a Foster Child Is Returning Home
What do you do when a foster child is returning home? If you’ve had a foster child in your home for any length of time, you know how easy it is for foster parents to get attached. However, since reunification is always the original goal of foster care, what can a foster parent do when […]
What to Know about Child Abuse
Although it's a mistake to become overprotective and make your child fearful, it is important to recognize the actual risks and familiarize yourself with the signs of abuse.
Teach Your Daughter How to Deal With Bullies
If your child is being bullied, she'll need some help learning how to stand up for herself and when to get help.
Why Can’t We Stop Child Abuse?
Government agencies have been trying to protect children for nearly two hundred years. Why have they failed?
How Child Abuse Primes the Brain for Future Mental Illness
A brain scan study pinpoints the changes associated with child abuse that may raise people's risk of depression, PTSD and addictions later in life.
Rebuilding a Healthy Sex Life After Meth Addiction
Understanding my struggle with crystal meth addiction and the impact meth had on my sex life — before and after I kicked the habit — has changed my life for the better.
How to Help Someone with a Meth Addiction?
Methamphetamine can not only break down a person's physical and mental health but it can also tear apart their support systems. Dr. Kevin Wandler of The Reco...
How We Treat Crystal Meth Addiction
Crystal meth addiction is a disease that should be taken very seriously. Call 866.267.3273 for crystal meth addiction treatment at Lakeview Health.
Are Women More Affected Than Men By Cocaine and Meth Addiction?
Researchers still don’t know exactly why the difference exists.
Prevent Child Abuse America
With Pinwheels for Prevention, the pinwheel has come to serve as the physical embodiment and reminder of the great childhoods we want for all children.
Prevention of Child Abuse
Ask the Doctor: Why is the Emergency Department referred to as a safe haven?
Finding the Right Mentor for Your Child
When you reflect on your own life, you can probably pin point the key adults that helped to inspire and support you over the course of your childhood and adolescence. Whether it was someone you met through a formalized mentoring program or people you knew through your school, church or community, these folks helped to shape you into the person that you have become. It is important that all kids have positive adult role models, besides their parents, throughout their lives. Research has…
5 Questions to Ask a Child Psychologist
Find the right psychologist for your child and your family.
When I first met my child
Meeting your child for the very first time can be just as powerful and life-changing as when someone meets their child in the delivery room.
3 Questions to Ask Your Child Every Night
Ask your child these 3 questions every night to help your child learn how to verbally express themselves and to help you learn about their day.
Learned Helplessness: Are You Doing Too Much for Your Child?
Under functioners are skilled in the art of learned helplessness. They have quite literally learned to be helpless, because someone was always there to pick up the pieces for them.
