Department Of Justice Releases First National Strategy For Child Exploitation Prevention And Interdiction

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Attorney General Eric Holder today announced that the Department of Justice released its first ever National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction. The strategy also provides the first ever comprehensive threat assessment of the dangers facing children from child pornography, online enticement, child sex tourism, commercial sexual exploitation, and sexual exploitation in Indian Country, and outlines a blueprint to strengthen the fight against these crimes. The strategy builds upon the department's accomplishments in combating child exploitation by establishing specific, aggressive goals and priorities and increasing cooperation and collaboration at all levels of government and the private sector.

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EWG Healthy Home Tip: Focus on young children

Environmental Working Group
May 2010

Tip 12: Give kids a green and healthy start

Babies' and children's developing brains and bodies (especially their reproductive systems) are extraordinarily vulnerable to toxic chemicals. And children's bodies may not metabolize and excrete toxic chemicals as readily as adults. So it's important for our children's long-term health that we focus on the toxic chemicals they're exposed to, and do our best to keep them away when it matters most.
Read on to learn three important ways to raise eco-healthy kids:
Reduce Mom’s chemical exposures while pregnant
Feed your baby safely
Create an eco-healthy home
Clean greener at home

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30 Ways to Get Your Kid to Play Outside

By National Wildlife Federation

Join the Great American Backyard Campout this weekend! These tips from the National Wildlife Federation's Be Out There campaign will help families get a daily dose of nature—to improve children’s physical, mental and emotional well-being...

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TIME TO GET POLITICAL: SUPPORT THE KID-SAFE CHEMICALS ACT

Web Highlight: The Family Groove

THE ECO HAS LANDED

ECO-WARRIOR FRANCESCA OLIVIERI SAYS IT'S TIME TO GET UP, STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS

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Emotional Training Helps Kids Fight Depression

by Allison Aubrey
Morning Edition
National Public Radio
January 18, 2009

Bryce Marcus is a fifth-grader at the KIPP Infinity School in the West Harlem neighborhood of New York City. His curriculum includes emotional development training that teaches him to replace negative thinking with more realistic and flexible thinking.


Materials For Therapists

This depression prevention program provides free materials geared toward counselors interested in cognitive therapy to help prevent depression for at-risk youth.

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CCFC Guide to Commercial-Free Holidays

Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
November 23, 2009

Frazzled? Cranky? Anxious?

Overspent?

Looking for respite from commercialized holidays?

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Supreme Court Weighs Life Sentences For Juveniles

by Nina Totenberg
National Public Radio
November 9, 2009

Retribution versus the possibility of redemption were at the core of Supreme Court arguments Monday in two cases testing whether it is unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment to sentence a juvenile to life in prison without parole — for a crime that does not involve a death.


Florida leads the nation in sentencing juveniles to life in prison without parole for non-homicide crimes. Nationally, of 111 such cases, 77 are in the Sunshine State.


So it is fitting that the cases both came from Florida. One involves a 13-year-old convicted of rape; the other, a 16-year-old convicted of armed robbery...

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