Research published in this month's American Journal of Public Health finds that girls in the public mental health system were arrested at earlier ages more frequently and were charged with more serious offenses than girls in the general population. This provides strong evidence for the coordination between mental health and justice systems to provide rehabilitation.

Seven years ago, a piece of paper on a desk started Pamela Pine on a quest to understand and spread the word about child sexual abuse. In this column, Pine shares how she turned her concern into a vibrant, dynamic nonprofit organization—with an annual international awareness-raising foot race in Washington, DC, every April.

Building kites, drawing, creating an on-line community—these are some of the ways that young survivors of Hurricane Katrina are expressing themselves as part of their healing process. Martha Pitts reports on art therapy programs that are helping kids rebound.

As the war in Iraq and worries about terrorism at home continue to challenge our children's resilience and sense of safety, experts and organizations across the country are pulling together new resources on the Web to help. Here's our updated list of some of the best.

Whether a trauma happens in a family, a community or a country, children respond differently and need different supports to heal and adapt. Fortunately, the Web offers a wide world of resources, and Connect for Kids has collected some of the best.

Former foster children are twice as likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as Iraq war veterans, according to the 2005 Northwest Foster Care Alumni study. More than 20 percent of adults formerly in foster care are doing well—but most, however, face major challenges in the areas of mental health, education, and employment. One-third are living at or below the poverty level, and nearly a quarter experienced homelessness some time after leaving foster care. Changes in foster care services can help.

It's been three years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, but the moment remains with us all ? even more so in this political season. While most kids may be coping well with their changed world, anniversaries can trigger a return to difficult emotions. Connect for Kids has some resources to help.

Emotional upheaval is part of adolescence. But depression and thoughts of death pose a serious threat to teens, for whom suicide is the third leading cause of death. How can a friend, teacher, or coach help a despairing teen? The Yellow Ribbon program offers a starting place. Lee Nelson reports.

Youth who engage in delinquent behaviors early are more likely to become serious, chronic and violent offenders in adolescence -- but interventions are more likely to succeed with younger youth, according to this Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention report, Child Delinquency: Early Intervention and Prevention.

Concluding there is no way to predict which individual students will commit lethal attacks in schools, this National Research Council review says profiling would wrongly identify harmless adolescents as potentially dangerous and it would miss some of the few youths who actually commit the offenses. Prevention efforts should focus on keeping firearms out of the hands of unsupervised adolescents and out of schools.