Foundation for a Drug Free World is offering free The Truth About Drugs booklets to any teacher, parent, school, guidance counselor, government worker, etc. to read and distribute to their students/staff/organizations. Also, free The Truth About Drugs Campaign Folders can be ordered as well, all at www.drugfreeworld.org, which contains public service announcements on most drugs including marijuana, alcohol, cocaine, painkillers, Ecstasy, Heroin, Crack Cocaine, and more. To order these free materials, watch the public service announcements, and arrange for an event at your location, visit Connect for Kids and fill our your order/inquiry on the web. You can also email Meghan Fialkoff, New York Coordinator of Foundation for a Drug Free World, at dirprnyd@gmail.com.

With the nation's third-highest hunger rate, Oregon's Childhood Hunger Initiative wants health care providers to ask themselves whether hunger could be behind some of their patients' problems.

This Child Trends brief distills lessons from roundtable discussions for improving the reach and effectiveness of New Mexico's school-based services like after-school programs and health services.

Thousands of workers will be needed to fill *green* jobs as the United States moves toward a low-carbon and more sustainable future. A new AED report argues that community colleges are positioning themselves to play a pivotal role in preparing a green workforce.

February 4, 2009 is National Girls and Women in Sports Day. On his blog, "The Dad Man" Joe Kelly has tips on what fathers can do with daughters tips on what fathers can do with daughters.

The numbers are staggering in this year's UNICEF State of the World's Children report. More than half a million women die each year from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. Women in the least developed countries face risks 300 times greater than those in the industrialized world.

Feeding America, formerly Second Harvest, is urging you to contact Congress to address hunger among working families.

For many years, teen fathers were either overlooked or blamed for their role in teen pregnancy. However, interest in designing programs to reduce teen pregnancy and to enhance outcomes for babies and children, as well as meet the needs of this vulnerable population, has increased in recent years. A National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse brief authored by Child Trends, Promising Teen Fatherhood Programs: Initial Evidence Lessons from Evidence-Based Research, identifies ten common features of "model" and "promising" programs for teen fathers. Eighteen fatherhood programs were assessed and, of these, one was identified as a "model" program and three as "promising" programs.

True Majority and US Action are leading a coalition for a recovery package that stabilizes financial institutions; guarantees quality, affordable health care; grants all children access to high quality education from early childhood through college; develops a clean energy economy and independence from fossil fuels and oil; tackles poverty and strengthens our nation's infrastructure.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reported that at least 44 states are facing budget shortfalls -- the budget gaps for the remainder of this fiscal year to 2011 are estimated to more than $350 billion. At least 30 states have made or proposed budget cuts that threaten vital services, including public health, education and state workforce reductions.