"Research reports in 2004 and 2007 found that suicide attempts were 40 percent less for students in the SOS high school program than for the control group. The results were similar across racial and socioeconomic groups. Because of such studies, SOS is listed on the National Registry of Effective Programs maintained by the US government's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration."

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"During that time, parents are interviewed, family needs are addresses and the student in counseled to end the disruptive behavior... Of the 67 students in the pilot program - which ran from April to Mid-October - 56 showed a positive change after two weeks, and 47 were still showing improvement after six weeks."

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"What should you and your family do? You need to enter into her life, get to know her again and ignore the abuse she's going to dish out while you attempt to bring her back into the fold. Do things with her, include her in family matters and don't take no for an answer."

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"On January 5, a party at a house in Lombard was apparently the hot spot for some partying teens. A DuPage County sheriff's deputy found pictures of Glenbard South and East high school students at the party of Facebook pages. Four students shown drinking were charged with possession of alcohol by a minor..."

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"Our findings are contrary to the popular view that Christmas is a time of stress and arguments," said Helen Bergman, one of the social scientists who combed through emergency room records of over 19,300 people.

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"If the findings are confirmed, the predication model could help doctors identify those at risk for psychotic illness much sooner so that these people can be monitored closely for signs of active psychosis."

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"About 750,000 teens between 15-19 get pregnant each year, and 79 percent of them are unmarried according to a teen pregnancy report by the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit sexual and reproductive health research group."

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"Kovalesky, 65, and his wife handled virtually [all] of those [more than 500] calls [last year]. The program, which depends upon teen volunteers, has been in a severe drought for several years. 'We've gotten only one real volunteer out of the last four trainings and we had to cancel two of them - only one kid showed up,' he says."

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"'Our goal is to have six sessions, one each week, beginning in late January,' said [Sally] White [director of Wilcox Against Substance Abuse]. ‘They will be in the classroom setting, just as we do our substance abuse and SRO classes.'"

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"Americans probably delay too long, Greiner said, in strongly recommending that disturbed young people be evaluated. 'Part of the great American tradition of liberty is that we tend to be very hesitant about doing that,' he said."

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"'I was afraid he would do a repeat of Columbine,' she says. 'I was afraid he would hurt people.'

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"The results? About 8.6 percent of teens who complete Missouri's program are incarcerated in adult prisons within three years of release, according to 2006 figures. (In New York, 75 percent are re-arrested as adults, 42 percent for a violent felony.)"

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