Last month Connect for Kids reported on Teenangels, young volunteers who help their peers understand the importance of Internet safety. What other efforts are underway to help protect children and youth from being exploited through social networking online? Cecilia Garcia reports.

With a sharp increase in the number of kids with severe, even life-threatening, food allergies, schools and other facilities are trying to develop workable policies to keep children safe. Carole Moore reports on the problem, and on proposed federal legislation that could help.

Youth Crime Watch of America hosts its 17th annual National Youth Crime Prevention Conference and International Forum March 20-23 in Ogden, Utah.

Students Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) is holding its 10th annual summit in Raleigh, North Carolina.

The Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence sponsors its inaugural conference in Denver, Colorado, March 13-16, 2006.

Powerful emotions like anger can become a major roadblock to learning. Art therapy is one approach to helping kids manage those feelings and be successful. Letitia Star reports on an art therapy program in Chicago.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Connect for Kids has pulled together online resources for helping those affected. We’ve divided them into three sections: Emergency Guidelines for Helping Victims looks at how government agencies are developing procedures for helping the displaced; Giving & Getting Help is a compilation of information on donating and volunteering, also on help available to those affected; and Help with Healing offers information on supporting kids and families dealing with trauma related to Katrina. We expect to update this resource frequently.

It's a cautionary tale for parents: when an 11-year-old boy was rescued after four days in the Utah wilderness, it turned out he could have been found sooner—if he hadn't been hiding from rescuers, obeying a parental injunction never to talk to strangers. Nancy McBride of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, has advice for updating our approach to keeping kids safe.

In the wake of high school shootings, adults often wonder what today's kids are thinking. College student Erin Rebant gives us a clue in her review of this collection of essays.

Reviving Ophelia, by Mary Pipher, Ph.D., is subtitled "Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls." It is a good book for parents of growing daughters, the daughters themselves, and anyone who has ever known young girls.