Early Childhood Direction Center
July 2012, Newsletter

Needful Things - newsletter of the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, 9/23/10

POLICE CHIEFS RELEASE REPORT: IMPROVING POLICE RESPONSE TO PERSONS WITH  MENTAL ILLNESS
July 8, 2010   

ALL NEW OPDV E-BULLETIN!

Suits Vs. NYPD Move To Challenge Stop And Frisk
The RAND Corporation was subpoenaed last week as part of a series of lawsuits filed by prominent legal organizations trying to exert pressure on the New York Police Department to amend its controversial “stop and frisk” practices and to gain access to data on the people stopped by the police. The RAND subpoena is the latest step in a class-action lawsuit, Floyd et al. v City of New York, filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) against...
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New Federal Rules on Student Information
Proposed Federal Rules Expand Disclosure of Student Information
April 15, 2008

IMPACT Mental Health Enews
April, 2008

PRESS RELEASE
SAMHSA and Ad Council Debut National Mental Health Anti-Stigma Campaign on College Campuses
March 30, 2008

Healthy and Safe Children       2007-2008
more at: http://www.promisingpractices.net/research_healthy.asp

Socioemotional Effects of Fathers' Incarceration on Low-Income, Urban, School-Aged Children

Long-Term Impact of Adolescent Dating Violence on the Behavioral and Psychological Health of Male and Female Youth

A Day in the Life of American Adolescents: Substance Use Facts

Depressed Adolescents Respond Best to Combination Treatment

Trends Child Fact Sheet

Changes in Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Premiums by State
March 5, 2008

A Home Remedy for Juvenile Offenders
February 20, 2008

Families On The Move of New York City, Inc.
Legislative Luncheon
“Legislators vow to help youths needing mental-health care”
February 21, 2008

Breaking Down Barriers to Mental Health Care
by Michelle Chen  Gotham Gazette  January 18, 2008

An Explanation of Kendra’s Law
November 1999
Revised May 2006