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.

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.

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.

Bullying has a new face. Or perhaps, no face at all. Joan Lisante reports on cyber-bullying - kids using new technologies to hurt feelings, trash reputations, and wreck relationships.

In a notoriously troubled New York City neighborhood, Isis Sapp-Grant has created a supportive haven for girls besieged by drug dealers, sexual predators, family violence and gangs. Holly St. Lifer spoke with Sapp-Grant about her Blossom Program for Girls.