Other Web Sites of Interest

• Adolescent Health On-Line
  The American Medical Association's (AMA) Department of Adolescent Health is pleased to provide you with this resource for information on adolescent health issues. A major AMA adolescent health initiative, funded in part by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Adolescent and School Health, is the proliferation of comprehensive clinical preventive services that primary care physicians and other health professionals can provide to young people. The AMA initiative is called Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services (GAPS). GAPS is based on a set of recommendations that describe the content and delivery of comprehensive clinical preventive services for adolescents between 11-21 years of age. The recommendations apply to all health care settings that provide services to adolescents. In addition to information for health care professionals, this site will continue to expand and include information for adolescents and their families.
• The Child Welfare League of America
  The nation's oldest and largest organization devoted entirely to the well-being of America's vulnerable children and their families. Founded in 1920, CWLA is a membership association of almost 1,000 public and private nonprofit agencies, which together serve over two million children and their families across the United States annually. CWLA and its member agencies provide a wide range of services to protect abused, neglected, and otherwise vulnerable children and youths, and strengthen and support families for children.
• Child Abuse and Neglect Working Group - NIH
  Since 1997, the Child Abuse and Neglect Working Group (CANWG) has met monthly to coordinate NIH research efforts in child abuse and neglect.
• The Monitoring the Future Study
  Each year since 1975, Monitoring the Future has surveyed a nationwide sample of high school seniors. Since 1991, the project has also included nationwide samples of 8th and 10th grade students. In addition, annual follow-up surveys are mailed to a sample of each graduating class for a number of years after their initial participation. The Monitoring the Future project is conducted by the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research
• Maternal and Child Health Bureau
  Charged with the primary responsibility for promoting and improving the health of our Nation's mothers and children, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) draws upon nearly a century of commitment and experience. Early efforts are rooted in MCHB's predecessor, the Children's Bureau, established in 1912. In 1935, Congress enacted Title V of the Social Security Act, which authorized the Maternal and Child Health Services Programs - providing a foundation and structure for assuring the health of mothers and children now for more than 60 years. Today, Title V is administered by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau as part of the Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. MCHB continues to provide its leadership, partnership, and resources to advance the health of all our Nation's mothers, infants, children, and adolescents - including families with low income levels, those with diverse racial and ethnic heritages and those living in rural or isolated areas without access to care.
• National Women's Resource Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Abuse and Mental Illness
  The National Women's Resource Center creates partnerships to lead the integrated delivery of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug abuse and mental illness prevention and treatment services for women. The Center shapes and supports a constituency of professionals, communities, and grass roots organizations that advocates for, and makes a difference in the physical, psychological, and spiritual health of women across the life cycle.
• NIDA's Center on AIDS and Other Medical Consequences of Drug Abuse
  The Center coordinates a comprehensive, multidisciplinary research program aimed at improving the knowledge base on drug abuse and HIV/AIDS through biomedical and behavioral research. The Center also provides leadership in the development of Institute priorities and conducts scientific, budgetary, legislative, and policy planning activities related to drug abuse and HIV/AIDS.
• National Institute on Justice
  NIJ's Drug Use Forecasting (DUF) program gathers offense and drug use information from samples of adult and juvenile arrestees at 23 sites nationwide, providing access to a national sample of arrestees within hours of arrest. Along with a brief, voluntary interview, urine specimens are obtained to test for evidence of recent use of drugs. For 7 years, data from NIJ's DUF program have traced the trends in drug use among persons arrested for a wide range of offenses. Beginning in 1995, NIJ solicits proposals that capitalize and expand upon the research potential provided through the DUF program's quarterly collection of interviews and urine specimens from samples of adult and juvenile arrestees brought to jails in 23 cities nationwide.

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