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JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH ON CHILDREN

2017 Special Issues

Volume 8, Issue 1: We Can Do More: Challenges and Opportunities for Teen Pregnancy Prevention

Volume 8, Issue 2: Youth at Risk: New and Emerging Issues related to Tobacco, Alcohol and Other Drug Use

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2018 Topics

Immigrant and Refugee Children

Foster Care

Please contact managing editor at jarc@childrenatrisk.org for more information.

Call for Papers

Volume 7, Issue 2

We Can Do More: Challenges and Opportunities for Teen Pregnancy Prevention


Spring 2017

Editors-in-Chief:

Christopher Greeley (Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine)

Robert Sanborn (CHILDREN AT RISK)

Guest Editors: Susan Tortolero Emery (UTHealth School of Public Health),

Kimberly Johnson Baker (UTHealth School of Public Health)

For the fourteenth issue, We Can Do More: Challenges and Opportunities for Teen Pregnancy Prevention, the CHILDREN AT RISK Institute invites research concerning (but not limited to): adolescent sexual health, contraception access, contraception use, teen birth rates, post-partum efforts, effective interventions, community perceptions, community mobilization and sustainability, health outcomes, family well-being, parent-child communication, and new trends and technology.

The CHILDREN AT RISK Institute is seeking articles that include data-oriented evidence on the most pressing teen pregnancy-related issues and what programs and policies are needed to prevent or alleviate these issues.

Volume 8, Issue 2

Youth at Risk: New and Emerging Issues related to Tobacco, Alcohol and Other Drug Use

Editors-in-Chief:

Christopher Greeley (Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine)

Robert Sanborn (CHILDREN AT RISK)

Guest Editors: MeLisa R. Creamer, Deanna M. Hoelscher, Steven H. Kelder, Anna V. Wilkinson (Michael and Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living)

For the fifteenth issue, Youth at Risk: New and Emerging Issues related to Tobacco, Alcohol and Other Drug Use, the CHILDREN AT RISK Institute invites research concerning (but not limited to): the individual or co-occurrence of tobacco use behaviors (e.g. e-cigarettes, cigars, hookahs, smokeless tobacco and conventional cigarettes), alcohol use behaviors (e.g. binge drinking, heavy alcohol use, and early onset) and use of controlled substances (e.g. marijuana, opioid use, synthetics, prescriptions, etc).

The CHILDREN AT RISK Institute is seeking articles that include data-oriented evidence on the use of new and emerging substances, related risk factors, the co-occurrence of these behaviors, and programs and policies needed to prevent or alleviate their development.

Please contact managing editor at jarc@childrenatrisk.org for more details and dates.