The SCHIP reauthorization will extend health coverage to four million more children and end the five-year waiting period for health care required of legal immigrant children and pregnant women.

The answer apparently is yes, according to this report published in Pediatrics. Data from a National Longitudinal Survey of Youth indicate that teens exposed to high levels of television sexual content were twice as likely to become pregnant within the next 3 years, compared with those with lower levels of exposure.

In Tulare County, California, residents are breathing -- not to mention working, learning and playing -- a little easier after a coalition of concerned families pushed for regulations that create a quarter-mile buffer zone between pesticide spraying and schools, residential neighborhoods, preschools and farm labor camps. This Grassroots Snapshot from the Children's Advocate has the scoop on their success.

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.