PUBLIC INTEREST POLICY: ARCHIVED CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFINGS

• Providing Lifespan Respite Care: Vital Support for Family Caregivers  (7/03)
  
  
• The Head Start Advantage, a briefing co-sponsored by APA and the Society for Research in Child Development and the National Association for the Education of Young Children. (6/03)
  
  
• How Traumatic Events Worldwide are Affecting Adolescents' Decisions about Postsecondary Education, a briefing co-sponsored by APA and the College Board. (6/03)



• Protecting Our Nation's Children: What We Know about Child Abuse Prevention (6/02)
  
  
• Promoting Quality Care Near the End of Life: What Policy Makers Need to Know an APA-SPSSI sponsored briefing (7/01)
  
  
• "Educational Testing: Policy Considerations for the 107th Congress" statement of Eva Baker, Ph.D. at an APA-sponsored briefing (3/01)
  
  
• "Promoting the Mental Health of our Nation's Youth through School-Based Programs" statement of Mark Weist, Ph.D. at a briefing sponsored by the Friends of School Health (6/01)
  
  
• Minority Health Disparities (6/00)
  
  
• Healthy Aging: What Does the Research Tell Us? (5/00)
  
  
• Making School Transitions a Positive Experience (6/99)
  
  
• Breaking the Wall of Silence: Women, HIV/AIDS, and the Prison System (2/99)
  
  
• The Science of Prevention (4/98)
  
  
• Dying to be thin: The prevention of eating disorders and the role of Federal policy (11/97)
  
  
• Hate Crimes: Causes, Consequences, and Current Policy. What Does the Social Science Research Tell US? (11/97)

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