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AACAP Applauds Senate
for Addressing National Shortage of Children's Mental Health Professionals
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
applauds the introduction of the Child Healthcare Crisis Relief Act in the
Senate. The legislation addresses the national shortage of children's mental
health professionals including child and adolescent psychiatrists. The Child
Healthcare Crisis Relief Act will increase the number of well- trained mental
health professionals by creating educational incentives and federal support
for children's mental health training programs. This bill will help remove
one of the main barriers to treatment for children and adolescents with emotional
and behavioral disorders.
http://webclipper.handsnet.org/2007/06/aacap-applauds.php
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Born to Lose: How Birth
Weight Affects Adult Health and Success
Babies weighing less than
5.5 pounds at birth have an increased probability of dropping out of high
school by one-third, reduced yearly earnings by about 15 percent and burdens
people in their 30s and 40s with the health of someone who is 12 years older.
These findings are based on an analysis of more than 35 years of data on more
than 12,000 individuals from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, conducted
since 1968 by the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR).
Compared to their normal birth weight siblings, low birth-weight children
are 30 percent less likely to be in excellent or very good health in childhood.
http://webclipper.handsnet.org/2007/06/born-to-lose-ho.php
**Civic Engagement / Civil
Society
Universities Renew Their
Commitment to Revitalize Journalism Education;
The leaders of five of America's leading research universities have
reaffirmed their pledge to fund a third year for the Carnegie-Knight Initiative
on the Future of Journalism Education. The Carnegie-Knight Initiative involves
three distinct efforts: (1) integrating schools of journalism more closely
with the entire campus in an effort to better teach, challenge and prepare
the next generation of news industry leaders for an increasingly complex world;
(2) The Carnegie-Knight Task Force, focusing on research and the creation
of platforms for educators to speak on policy and journalism education issues;
(3) the creation of News 21 incubators on innovative reporting through traditional
and new media.
http://webclipper.handsnet.org/2007/06/presidents-of-f.php
**Community Development
Grants Will Help Save
Local Apartments
Seven rural community-based
organizations will be better able to help local renters, thanks to grants
announced and made possible by a partnership between Enterprise Community
Partners and the Housing Assistance Council. The grantees, including two
Missouri groups, are all preserving affordable
rental homes that are in danger of being demolished or converted to units
for higher-income tenants. The HAC/Enterprise Rural Capacity Building Initiative
is a multi-year project that combines HAC's depth,
outreach, and expertise in rural communities with Enterprise's resources and services.
http://webclipper.handsnet.org/2007/06/grants-will-hel.php
Violence Costs Nation
$70 Billion Annually
The most comprehensive study
of its kind has found that violence costs the United States $70 billion annually, a figure that
rivals federal education spending and the damage caused by hurricane Katrina.
Phaedra Corso, lead author of study and associate
professor of health policy at the University of Georgia College of Public
Health and health economist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
said the study illustrates how much money can be saved by investing in programs
that decrease interpersonal violence and self-inflicted violence such as suicide.
http://webclipper.handsnet.org/2007/06/uga-study-finds.php
Can California Import Enough College Graduates to
Meet Workforce Needs?
This brief by the Public
Policy Institute of California examines the potential crisis of whether California will have enough highly educated workers to meet the rising
demands of the economy in the coming decades. Included in the brief are recent
trends on international and domestic migration of college grads, demographic
projections (age and race/ethnicity, percentage of adults with a college degree),
wages and educational attainment, supply and demand of jobs, and more.
http://webclipper.handsnet.org/2007/06/can-california-1.php
**Economic Security
Update WIA Title II to
Help More Adult Education Students Gain Postsecondary Credentials and Move
Up to Better Jobs
According to the Center
for Law and Social Policy, since passage of the Workforce Investment Act
(WIA) in 1998, it's become clear both that an increase in basic skills leads
to an increase in low-skilled individuals' earnings and that these earnings
increases typically fall short of what people need to become self-sufficient.
There is a new consensus on the importance of increasing transitions from
adult education to postsecondary education and training. Currently, however,
WIA Title II does not reflect this consensus.
http://webclipper.handsnet.org/2007/06/update-wia-titl.php
Improving Access to Education
and Training for TANF Participants
According to the Center
for Law and Social Policy the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
(TANF) block grant is one of the major sources of funding for services designed
to help low-income parents succeed in the workplace. The TANF law limits
the degree to which states can count TANF families engaged in education and
training activities toward federal work participation rate requirements---an
unfortunate limitation, given the strong link between educational attainment
and earnings. The Center recommends that Congress remove these arbitrary
limits and allow vocational educational training to count for at least 24
months, along with allowing adult education and English language services
to count for at least six months so that students can transition into training.
http://webclipper.handsnet.org/2007/06/improving-acces.php
**Education
High School Counselors Say Debt Worries Affect College Choices
According to our nation's
high school counselors, worries about the risks of student loans influence
families' decisions about whether children go to college as well as which
college they should attend. Most counselors (89 percent) agree with a general
statement that student loans help low-income students attend college. However,
more than one-third (37 percent) believe that low-income students should avoid
student loans because of the risks of default.
http://webclipper.handsnet.org/2007/06/high-school-cou.php
**Health
Reproductive Health Advocates
Unite to Defend Birth Control
Citing strong public support,
a group of reproductive health organizations observed the 42nd anniversary
of the legalization of birth control by opening campaigns to defend that right
against rising attacks. A new poll on voter support for birth control and
prevention strategies released at the briefing shows strong voter support
for the campaigns' goals. The campaigns -- BirthControlWatch.org, sponsored
by the Women Donors Network, and Plan A, sponsored by the National Council
of Jewish Women --reflect the views of many pro-choice leaders who believe
it is now time to move forward on an agenda that puts prevention first and
"outs" the opposition to birth control.
http://webclipper.handsnet.org/2007/06/reproductive-he.php
African-American Men
Underestimate Risk of Prostate Cancer
Many African-American men
radically underestimate the likelihood that having a needle biopsy for suspected
prostate cancer will result in a cancer diagnosis, according to a study from
the University of Chicago Medical Center. In general,
although African Americans were less likely to believe they were at risk for
cancer and less anxious about possibly having cancer, they were actually more
likely to have prostate cancer. "These data suggest that, while men
of both races underestimate their chances of having prostate cancer, African
American men are even more likely to do so.
http://webclipper.handsnet.org/2007/06/africanamerican.php
**Hunger and Nutrition
Economic Impact of Hunger
Affects All Americans
While thirty-five million
Americans feel the physical effects of hunger each day, every household and
individual in our nation feels the economic effects. So finds a new study
released today by the Sodexho Foundation and researchers affiliated with Harvard
University School of Public Health, Brandeis University and Loyola University. The study, titled "The Economic
Cost of Domestic Hunger: Estimated Annual Burden to the United States,"
finds that the U.S. pays more than $90 billion annually for the direct and
indirect costs of hunger-related charities, illness and psychosocial dysfunction
and the impact of less education/lower productivity.
http://webclipper.handsnet.org/2007/06/economic-impact.php
**Nonprofit Management
Study Examines Financial
Reliance of Nonprofit Health Care Organizations on Medicaid
Nonprofit health-care providers
-- including hospitals, nursing homes, and home-health organizations -- received
between $85 billion and $105 billion in Medicaid funding in fiscal 2004, roughly
a third of total Medicaid spending, according to a groundbreaking study commissioned
by the Aspen Institute's Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program and conducted
by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, the public-policy research
arm of the State University of New York system. "The financial relationship
between Medicaid and nonprofit organizations has significant implications
for their missions, management, and budgeting tactics," the study concludes.
http://webclipper.handsnet.org/2007/06/study-examines.php
**Substance Abuse
Smokers Given More Help
to Quit Since Pay for Performance System Introduced in UK
Smokers have been getting
more support for quitting, and the numbers of smokers have reduced, since
the introduction of performance-related incentives for UK general practitioners, according to
new research published today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
"Improvements were generally greatest in the groups with the poorest
performance before these incentives were introduced and among ethnic minorities
- populations that often receive lower quality care.
http://webclipper.handsnet.org/2007/06/smokers-given-m.php
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