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People who are concerned with issues related to family support and children's mental health?the young people affected by emotional and behavioral challenges, their families and other supporters, service providers, and policy makers?have a great need for information. eResearch is designed to help these people improve their ability to locate high quality, useful information using the Internet. eResearch is intended to offer information that is at an introductory level; however, eResearch also provides links to Internet tools, tutorials, and other resources that can help even experienced users of the Internet become more efficient and more effective in searching for and evaluating information. http://www.rtc.pdx.edu/pgeResearchMain.shtml

Abstract: Systems of care serving very young children and their families are finding innovative and effective ways to design and deliver services. The authors consistently found that an approach to services that takes into account the whole child, including his or her family and community, his or her unique developmental needs and strengths, and his or her well-being in a variety of contexts is especially important and most effective. They also found that a truly family-centered approach to care with a high level of parent participation in decision-making appears to increase the overall level of parent engagement in the well-being of their child within a particular child- serving agency. Order a FREE COPY OF THIS MONOGRAPH ONLINE: http://www.rtc/pgPublications.shtml

Pullmann, M. D., Savage, P., & Koroloff, N. M. (2002). More than Money: Do Family Resources Predict Caregiver Strain?. Paper presented at the conference A System of Care for Children?s Mental Health: Expanding the Research Base, Tampa, FL. View this presentation at: http://www.rri.pdx.edu/ClarkCo/pgCCResActivities.htm

The project, "Guidance for early childhood program design: Addressing the mental health needs of young children and their families in early childhood education settings" has published a new brochure highlighting its research results. This project is designed to provide early childhood education programs with research-based training and technical assistance about how to structure effective mental health services. The brochure includes early project findings, key themes from staff and parent interviews, and information on the next phase of the project. Download the brochure or further project information at: www.rtc.pdx.edu/pgProjGuidance.shtml Request the brochure by email: rtcpubs@pdx.edu

The 9th annual BUILDING ON FAMILY STRENGTHS CONFERENCE is scheduled for May 30-June 1, 2002 at the Hilton Hotel in Portland Oregon. REGISTER ONLINE THRU MAY 10: http://www.rtc.pdx.edu/pgConference.shtml

New summaries of recent research now available: "Causes of and solutions to children?s mental health problems: Parent and professional views," "Service use and intensive family preservation," and "Long-term reliability of the Child Behavior Checklist and the Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale." http://www.rtc.pdx.edu/pgDataTrends.shtml

The "articles of interest" section of Data Trends has also been updated, and now includes abstracts from articles published in 2002: http://www.rtc.pdx.edu/pgDataTrendsofInterest.shtml

**Evaluation of English and Spanish health information on the Internet. The California HealthCare Foundation commissioned RAND Health to design and conduct a comprehensive study to describe and evaluate health information available on the Internet. The study is the first to evaluate both English-language and Spanish-language search engines and Web sites. Depression is one of the health topics examined in depth in chapters 3 and 4. http://www.rand.org/publications/documents/interneteval/

**The trustworthiness of health information on the Internet. A special edition of the British Medical Journal includes a number of articles and editorials discussing the quality of health information available online. Several articles provide information on how to evaluate the quality of available information, others report on the accuracy of information and the search strategies used by consumers. http://bmj.com/content/vol324/issue7337/

**The online health care revolution: How the Web helps Americans take better care of themselves. The Pew Internet and American Life Project?s report documents the Internet?s powerful influence on seekers of health information. http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/pdfs/PIP_Health_Report.pdf

**Connecting the dots: Mental Health Internet Leadership Summit. Reports from a summit convened by the National Mental Health Association include a list of principles governing mental health and mental illness content on the Internet. http://www.nmha.org/conf/index.cfm

**Generation Rx.com. In Generation Rx.com, the Kaiser Family Foundation reports that two out of three teens have used the Internet to search for health information, and that among those, almost a quarter have searched for information about mental health. Teens report the information they find is useful, but they are skeptical about the quality of online health information in general. http://www.kff.org/content/2001/20011211a/

**Protecting Children in Cyberspace. This bulletin from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency bulletin describes the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program designed to protect children in cyberspace. http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/pubs/missing.html#191213

**TeenSites.com: a Field Guide to the New Digital Landscape. This report from the Center on Media technology reports on popular teen web sites and how teens use them to access entertainment and information. http://www.cme.org/teenstudy/index.html

The primary goal for this conference is extending what researchers have learned, and are learning, related to PBS and to the systems that are charged with the task of delivering effective support. http://rrtcpbs.fmhi.usf.edu/conferencesevents.htm

A brochure and registration form for downloading are now available online in PDF format. http://gucdc.georgetown.edu/institutes.html

This Child Trends brief analyzes research on mentoring programs and concludes that well-designed mentoring programs can have a positive effect on a variety of outcomes for youth. However, mentoring of short duration may do more harm than good. http://www.childtrends.org/PDF/MentoringBrief2002.pdf