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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Laura Yost of The Clorox Company, +1-510-271-7000, laura.yost@clorox.com; or Carlisle Campbell, Ketchum, +1-202-835- 9431, carlisle.campbell@ketchum.com, for The Clorox Company
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Education Association Health Information Network (NEA HIN) is partnering with Purdue Pharma L.P. to create new educational resources for middle school teachers focusing on the critical health problem of prescription drug abuse and misuse. The materials are currently in production, and will be released in July 2012 at the NEA Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly in Washington, D.C. They will be available in hard copy and online.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 20% of high school students have taken prescription drugs without a doctor's prescription at least once in their lives. Clearly, young people are not learning the skills of proper medication use and are putting themselves at risk of serious ha...
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WASHINGTON - Young elementary school students should use the proper names for body parts and, by the end of fifth grade, know that sexual orientation is "the romantic attraction of an individual to someone of the same gender or a different gender," according to new sexual education guidelines released Monday by a coalition of health and education groups.
The non-binding recommendations to states and school districts seek to encourage age-appropriate discussions about sex, bullying and healthy relationships - starting with a foundation even before second grade.
... with the release include the American Association of Health Education, the American School Health Asssociation, the National Education Association - Health Information Network...
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... including representatives from the National Education Association Health Information Network, ...
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To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS
Contact: Shelly Thorington of Sprint, +1-913-794-1167, Shelly.J.Thorington@sprint.com; NCMEC Communications Department, +1- 703-837-6111, media@ncmec.org; or Anita Merina of the National Education Association, +1-202-822-7289, amerina@nea.org
...) and the National Education Association Health Information Network (NEA HIN). 4NetSafety is inten...
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...) suggest poorer academic performance and health outcomes are related to food insecurity. A more re... North Carolina ranked higher than the national average for rates of both food insecurity (13.8 pe..., electronic database, the following information is recorded: . a. The client code number . b. All ... of the people using the food assistance network is created. Overall, pantry clients are not coming...Again, this is measured by association with a census block, and its characteristics of ag... minimum wage, healthcare reform, and educational opportunities, the working poor, and others experi...
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The merging of information technologies through digital transformation has st... dynamic problems such as global warming, health and disaster mitigation. Current initiatives to im... evolving technologies to a worldwide network of community-level agents of change that transmit ... transformation has made the close association of technology with social and economic development...) It should be noted that food security, national security and technology were the mandate of those ...
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..., including 49 Nobel laureates and 63 National Medal of Science recipients. . --Don Gonyea, "Bush...-a-vis teaching and service (National Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work T... Infrastructures within Social Work Education Programs, 1997). Until approximately the early 199... programs becoming more aligned with the health sciences rather than the humanities and by the exp... efforts toward transparency in making information on funding readily available. Other funders, feder... analyst, described a sort of "old boys' network" at NIJ where few research grants were made outsid...
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Popular Website www.NSTeens.org for Kids Ages 8 to 12 Adds Two New Items that Are Fun and Teach Online Safety
ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two new items are now available for kids between the ages of 8 and 12 that are not only fun but also teach them how to stay safe while on the Internet. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children(R) (NCMEC) and Sprint (NYSE: S) announced today that in honor of Internet Safety Month the popular child-focused Internet safety website www.NSTeens.org has been expanded to include a new animated video and educational game created for the "in-between" tween audience of 8 to 12 year olds. The new video "Mike-tosis," is already on the site and demonstrates how quickly information spreads through the Internet, on mobile phones, ...
... gaming, cyberbullying, and social networking are addressed through animated videos, games and o... Children and the National Education Association Health information Network and Boys & Girls Clubs ...
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... of the choices to be made and information and planning that bear on these choices" (p. 334) ... two distinct factors that affect educational and vocational decisions and the implementation of... of SCCT-driven (Lent et al., 1994) associations between the key variables of career choice prepara... and to prevent the impairment of mental health associated with career difficulties among ninth gr... guidance, as well as the nonformal social network and other sources of support in career exploration.... [C] 2011 by the National Career Development Association. All rights reserve...