Young People Content Topic Results

This handout describes the impact of disasters on babies, young children, toddlers, and preschoolers, offering many useful tips for helping to promote healing and resiliency.

This resource is an online picture book where children are shown the difference between a good secret and a secret about sexual abuse.

This report about trafficking in the US provides insight into the lack of recognition or responsive aid that American girls and women who are unseen victims of trafficking receive in the US versus those victims who are not US citizens. -'The report is primarily a qualitative investigation based on interviews with girls themselves, children's advocates, service providers, law enforcement officials and others, in primarily four citiesóNew York, Atlanta, Minneapolis, and San Francisco.' -Includes narratives/testimonies of girls and young women who have been in prostitution and are US citizens. -US born and raised girls and young women can also be trafficking victims. -US girls and young women 'turn' to prostitution because they are desperate and manipulated by adults but tactics used differ from international cohorts, emphasizes that young women in the US who go into prostitution are not 'sexually liberated college girls'. -Discusses some of the process and reality that girls and young women face in prostitution, including lack of services and awareness that sex trafficking happens to US girls and women as well.

This issue focuses on the intersection between sexual victimization and homeless youth, and provides an overview of research on this topic area.

Addresses the impact of domestic violence on children and the likelihood that men who abuse their partners will also abuse their children. Lists statistics that reflect the most recent research concerning the effects of domestic violence on children.

This brief provides state-by-state percentages of children in low-income families, including percentages based on age, parents with a high school degree, living with a single parent, and living with two immigrant parents.

This document highlights the need for child health care providers to become actively involved in domestic violence prevention and provides recommendations for regular and universal screening for domestic violence in child health care settings.

As the publics concern about girls' aggression and violence is rising, this document reviews the objective evidence regarding youthful female violence, makes suggestions about what is occurring, and suggests ways to address the issue positively.

This position papers addresses the rising popularity of two prevention strategies targeted at potential victims of drug-facilitated sexual battery and argues that prevention projects and funding should focused on broader messages that address root causes.

This paper provides a starting point for other communities to explore their own response to children at domestic violence incidents, as well as an approach that can be used to examine other aspects of intervention.

An introduction to the dynamics, prevalence and consequences of teen dating violence, this packet examines current provision of support services for teens and presents information about a variety of promising prevention /intervention strategies.

This report includes findings from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, with data on the health risk activities of students grade 9-12 in the following categories: tobacco use; unhealthy dietary behaviors; inadequate physical activity; alcohol and drug use; sexual behaviors; and behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries and violence. Please Note - An erratum has been published for this issue: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5424a6.htm