School may not seem like a risky place but even long ago, before today’s reality of school violence, students had to be brave to manage the risks and challenges of their daily lives. Childhood is filled with new experiences and challenges that require young people to...

While many assume that marijuana today is the same as it was many years ago, high-potency THC has negative impacts on the developing brain. Marijuana has become exponentially stronger over the years as THC levels (the psychoactive ingredient) in marijuana have...

Have you heard the news?  Puberty, that period-of-time when children begin the wild ride into adulthood, is beginning earlier and lasts longer than the puberty you likely experienced. Over the last several decades, studies have challenged the long-standing pubertal benchmark created back in the 1940s by pediatric
endocrinologist Dr. Joseph Tanner, who identified the average age of onset as being 11 for girls and 11.5 for boys.

As a student at Woodridge School in Woodridge, Illinois, I had my first exposure to the Robert Crown Center for Health Education. I vividly remember the carpeted stairs in the classrooms at the old center at 21 Salt Creek Lane in Hinsdale. I also remember...

Louie’s Law, also known as the Illinois Youth Education and Drug Overdose Prevention Act, was passed in July of 2023 as a guide rather than a mandate. The law is named for Louie Miceli, who died from a drug overdose in 2012. His mother’s hope was that these reforms...