Parents as advocates

Athletic coaches as violence prevention advocates.

Adolescent relationship abuse (ARA) is a significant public health problem. Coaching Boys Into Men (CBIM) is an evidence-based ARA prevention program that trains coaches to deliver violence prevention messages to male athletes. Assessing acceptability and impact of CBIM on coaches may inform prevention efforts that involve these important adults in health promotion among youth. As part of a two...

Compassionate Release Policy Reform: Physicians as Advocates for Human Dignity.

A rapidly aging correctional population has led to an increasing number of patients with serious progressive and terminal illnesses in correctional settings. "Compassionate release" describes a range of policies offering early release or parole to incarcerated patients with serious or debilitating illnesses. However, in many states that have compassionate release policies, few patients are actu...

Maternal microbiota and antibodies as advocates of neonatal health

Mammalian body surfaces are inhabited by vast numbers of microbes, the commensal microbiota, which help the host to digest food, provide nutrients, and mature its immune system. For a long time, postnatal colonization was believed to be the main stimulus for microbial-induced immune development. Using a model of reversible colonization of germ-free mice during gestation, we recently showed that...

Marin Advocates for Transit

Marin Advocates for Transit is very supportive of MTC's mission of regional coordination, and well recognizes the importance of this task. In furtherance of that mission, we offer the following comments on the draft Regional Transportation Plan EIR. We hope that these comments will help focus the RTP and its EIR on a full range of policy options to optimize the environmental and social conditio...

Federal budget disappoints seniors' advocates.