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TAKE POSITIVE ACTION TO HELP YOUR TEEN

AND HEAL YOUR FAMILY

• Take an honest look at your child's behavior and family situation.

• Become informed of your child's issues.

• Network the resources listed on the Family Help pages and throughout the Focus website to find referrals to mental health services and supportive programs.

• Follow through on professional advice and treatment plans.

• Build a support system from family, friends, self-help groups, and your place of worship.

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Abuse and Teen Dating Violence

• Age of Sexual Consent in Maryland

• Alcohol, Drugs and Sexual Assault (pdf)

• Domestic Violence:  Live Without It

• Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault in Maryland

• How Friends & Family Can Help Survivors of Sexual Assault

• Maryland Domestic Violence Law

• What To Do If Your Home Isn't Safe

Abuse: Sexual

• ACT NOW to STOP MARYLAND POLITICIANS FROM HURTING CHILDREN ~ Every time an Internet predator goes online for child pornography in Maryland -- your child or someone else's is at risk.  How?  Supply and demand. The Internet has linked together an enormous new web of child sexual predators.  In order to meet the demands of a predator in Maryland for new images of children raped on camera, a child in Kansas ... or California ... or Virginia will be used as supply.  That's why children everywhere are threatened by Maryland, where POSSESSION OF MOVIES AND IMAGES OF CHILDREN BEING RAPED AND TORTURED IS A MISDEMEANOR.  Now House Judiciary Chairman Joseph Vallario is blocking at least 29 House members who want stronger laws.  The only legislation Vallario will allow out of his committee is a weak and watered down bill (H.B. 285) that keeps child pornography a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine.  Tell Maryland House Speaker Michael Busch and Majority Leader Kumar Barve to protect children ... and that voters will hold them responsible.  Tell them to join 45 other states and MAKE CHILD PORNOGRAPHY POSSESSION A FELONY NOW!

• Maryland Crimes Against Children and Sexual Offenders Registry

• Maryland parents push to open juvenile records

• Sex Offender Registration & Community Notification

• Stop Shielding Juvenile Sex Crime Records

• Understanding the Maryland Legal System When Your Child Has Been Sexually Abused (pdf)

Adolescence

• Age of Sexual Consent in Maryland

• Emancipation Issues If You Are A Parent

• Emancipation of a Minor in Maryland

• Your rights as a victim in Maryland juvenile court

Asperger Syndrome

• First 100 Days Kit After Autism Diagnosis (pdf)

• Maryland Autism Task Force Memo & Report (pdf)

• Maryland's Autism Waiver

Dropouts

• GED in Maryland

• Maryland Education Law

Drugs & Teen Substance Abuse

• Consequences of Illicit Drug Abuse, Alcohol Abuse, and Smoking (pdf)

• Drug Use in Maryland

• Meth Comes Out of the Closet

• Meth in Maryland (pdf)

• Parents Less Likely to Be Aware of Cigarette & Alcohol Use by Children Age 12-14 Than That of Older Children; Equally Likely to Be Unaware of Marijuana Use (pdf)

• Prescription for Disaster: The Growing Problem of Prescription Drug Abuse in Maryland (pdf)

• Youth Drug Use in Maryland (pdf)

Family Health

• Accessing Mental Health Services and Therapeutic Behavioral Services for Children in Maryland Through Medical Assistance / Medicaid (pdf)

• Resource Guide for Individuals with Disabilities - Baltimore County (pdf)

• Your Medical Records Rights in Maryland (pdf)

Runaways & Missing Children

• Missing Children in Maryland

• Find Ganignunt Aiemsakul

• Find Michael Dean Andrews

Special Education

• Educational Rights of Children with Special Needs

• Maryland Education Law

• Parental Rights: Maryland Procedural Safeguards (pdf)

• School Disciplinary Rules for Special Education Students

• Special Education Law in Maryland

When Your Teen is in Trouble with the Law

• Juvenile Justice in Maryland (pdf)

• The way Maryland treats troubled youth

• Your rights as a victim in Maryland juvenile court