School-Based Mental Health Screening For Teens Results In Connection To Care

Sunday, August 28th, 2011

A new study involving nearly 2,500 high school students demonstrates the value of routine mental health screening in school to identify adolescents at-risk for mental illness, and to connect those adolescents with recommended follow-up care. The largest school-based study conducted to-date by the TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups ...

New NICE Guidance On School-based Methods To Prevent Children And Young People Smoking

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Public health guidance from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) published today (Wednesday 24 February) focuses specifically on school-based methods to prevent children and young people from starting to smoke. One in two long-term smokers will die prematurely as a result of smoking, and half of ...