The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2012 Teen Court Program grants (TCP). The purpose of this program is to provide substance abuse treatment services and related recovery support services to youth with substance abuse and/or co-occurring treatment needs involved in a teen court program. SAMHSA is focusing on preventing crimes by diverting youth with substance abuse treatment...
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May 11, 2012
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and the Center for Mental Health Services are accepting applications for Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 grants to expand and/or enhance substance abuse treatment services in existing adult and family “problem-solving” courts which use the Treatment Drug Court Model in order to provide alcohol and drug treatment (including recovery support services supporting substance abuse...
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By Join Together Staff
Attorneys general from 37 states have sent letters to 10 movie studio executives, asking them to stop showing smoking and tobacco in movies that are aimed at young audiences. They say these scenes encourage young people to smoke.
“Our concerns are grounded in science,” the attorneys general wrote in their letter. They note that the U.S. Surgeon General, in a report issued in March, found there is a “causal relationship between...
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A new... May 11, 2012
The U.S. Department of Education announced its first set of awards for 780 Upward Bound projects today, which will help close to 60,000 students acquire the knowledge and skills they need to access and succeed in college. These grants represent more than $254 million to fund projects that are designed to increase both the high school graduation and college completion rates of low-income, first-generation students.
In addition, following statutory requirements, the Department will...
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By Join Together Staff
The parents of teenagers’ friends can have as much effect on teens’ decisions about substance use as their own parents, a new study suggests.
If the parents of a teenager’s friends are not aware of their own child’s alcohol or drug use, or condone it, then it is more likely the teen will drink or smoke, the study found.
“Among friendship groups with ‘good parents’ there’s a synergistic effect...
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By Join Together Staff
After receiving warning letters from the federal government, 25 medical marijuana dispensaries in Colorado that were located near schools have shut down. The letters from Colorado U.S. Attorney John Walsh said they must close, or potentially face criminal prosecution.
The letters, sent March 23, gave the dispensaries 45 days to close, according to The Denver Post. This was the second round of letters sent to dispensaries in the state, the article...
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By Join Together Staff
The parents of teenagers’ friends can have as much effect on teens’ decisions about substance use as their own parents, a new study suggests.
If the parents of a teenager’s friends are not aware of their own child’s alcohol or drug use, or condone it, then it is more likely the teen will drink or smoke, the study found.
“Among friendship groups with ‘good parents’ there’s a synergistic effect...
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By Join Together Staff
Mexican authorities have shut down a record number of industrial methamphetamine labs in recent months, Reuters reports. U.S. drug agents fear Mexico’s growing meth production will result in a sudden surge in supply in this country.
In the first quarter of this year, Mexican soldiers raided 27 industrial meth labs, double the number raided in the same period last year, and the largest number in any three-month period, the article notes. In...
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CDC’s Guide to Writing for Social Media was written to provide guidance and share the lessons learned in more than three years of creating social media messages in CDC health communication campaigns, activities, and emergency response efforts. In this guide, you will find information to help you write more effectively using multiple social media channels, particularly Facebook, Twitter, and mobile phone text messaging. The guide is intended for a beginner audience, although some...
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Interesting opportunity with the Washington Reading Corps (WRC). See details below and website links for additional information.
WRC members can help community organizations, improve and expand their quality of services, raise awareness of their organizations in order to achieve their missions, and build community involvement and support.
- Help build your organization's success with community...
May 5, 2012
May 5, 2012
By Join Together Staff
Tobacco manufacturer Lorillard has purchased Blue Ecigs, a company that makes electronic cigarettes. This is the first foray by a major tobacco company into the small, but quickly expanding, market of e-cigarettes, according to The Wall Street Journal.
E-cigarettes are battery powered, and turn heated liquid laced with nicotine into a vapor mist. Lorillard’s acquisition comes at a time of falling cigarette sales. Prices for e-cigarettes...
May 5, 2012
May 5, 2012
The U.S. Department of Education has released the 2012 application for the Promise Neighborhoods program, which will provide $60 million for new planning and implementation grants and to continue support for existing implementation grantees and award a new round of planning and implementation grants.
The Department will provide around $27 million for up to 7 new...
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