New Health Consent Law Makes Getting Help More Accessible to Homeless Youth
Starting this week, unaccompanied minors in Illinois over the age of 14 can consent to routine medical care under a new amendment to the Minors Consent to Medical Procedures Act. Illinois is the 18th...
View ArticleMentally Ill Jail Population Doubled Since 2006; Now 20 Percent
This story originally ran on the Medill News Service: Mayor Rahm Emanuel closed six Chicago mental health clinics in 2012. Elected officials, law enforcement and mental health advocates are now saying...
View ArticleLoophole in Affordable Care Act Exposes Foster Care Youth to Losing Medicaid
After four years, more detailed points of Obama’s Affordable Care Act are just now getting enacted, including new provisions for foster youth. The most sweeping change in the Affordable Care Act is...
View ArticleWith Mental Health Needs in Spotlight, New Ways of Serving Communities Surface
The Kedzie Center, a community-based mental health center, opened its doors Wednesday to provide services for the residents of Chicago’s North River area. “There is a tremendous mental health need out...
View ArticleHealthy Cooking Instructional for Life in Chicago Schools
Healthy food and student advocacy were in the spotlight as 16 teams of students from the Chicago Public Schools competed in “Cooking Up Change,” a culinary contest styled after Bravo TV’s “Top Chef”...
View ArticleCook County Voters Back More State Funding for Mental Health Care Needs
Cook County voted the message loud and clear on Election Day. Funding mental health services should be a priority for state lawmakers. An advisory referendum to increase funding passed by a resounding...
View ArticleStudy Says Smoking Marijuana Changes Brain Size
The effects of smoking marijuana may be more than just the munchies. A recent study published by the journal of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) found that even casual pot smokers show significant...
View ArticleIllinois Class Action Targets Prep Football Concussions
An ex-high school football player from Notre Dame College Prep in Niles, Illinois, has filed a class-action lawsuit against the Illinois High School Association charging improper protocols and lax...
View ArticleSocial Safety Nets Stemmed Worst of Great Recession but Kids Remain in Need
Nearly six years after the Great Recession, social safety net programs like food stamps and Medicaid have blunted the economy’s impact on children and families. But according to a recent report, a...
View ArticleTo Cancel, or Not to Cancel? The Odd Formula for Shuttering Schools in Frozen...
Given the frozen temperatures and threats of sub-zero wind chills forecast for the balance of the week, the hard decisions are on schools about whether to shut down to save children, faculty and staff...
View ArticleConcussion Confusion: Brain Injuries Raise Questions about Sport’s Future
(Above Image: via www.virginiabraininjury.com) Pound the Rock. That is what head football coach Erick Ware tells his players at Bogan High School on Chicago’s South Side. And that is what he told...
View ArticleAmerican Cancer Society: Giving Cancerous Products to Members for Decades?
(Above image via theavantmagazine.com) Katy Skahill’s hair was falling out, her eyelashes had disappeared and her heart sank as she watched her eyebrows begin to fade. The nausea, the fatigue, the...
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