As teens spend more time on social media, parents need to watch for signs that they are being exploited, North Carolina officials warn. Between 2021 and 2022, the FBI saw a 600 percent increase …
Jennifer Fernandez | North Carolina Health News
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Student organization delivers hope, support to hospitalized children
The idea formed when Jana Tagel-Din remembered the light in her mother’s eyes after seeing the flowers and cookies. Her mother was in the hospital — her second bout with cancer, this time Stage 4 colon cancer. Tagel-Din remembers visits to the hospital as draining. But then she saw how her mother lit up at an unexpected gift. That moment in May 2022 blossomed into the nonprofit Care to Care NC.
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Approaches to student mental health vary on UNC campuses reeling from pandemic
Providing young people with the mental health resources they need is crucial, said Dan Marlowe, associate dean and chair of Behavioral Health at Campbell University, during an Aug. 24 town-hall meeting on mental health at the school.
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Childbirth is still killing Black moms at a higher rate; NC advocates, policymakers discuss solutions
Everyone here knew the data: Black women are three times more likely to die in connection with childbirth than white women. And they knew the cause: hard-to-solve social and structural problems in health care. Their goal: Get to the source of the problem to help save the lives of Black mothers and their babies.
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Lawmakers debate changes to rules for young drivers
A bill in the General Assembly would shorten to nine months the amount of time a teen driver must hold a learner’s permit.
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Charter schools get larger share in second round of state grant for period hygiene supplies
In the second round of a state grant aimed at helping provide students with free period supplies, charter schools got a much larger share of the funding than they did in the first round.
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Moore County community creates safe housing for young people facing homelessness
PINEHURST — In a small brick house on a narrow street in a community known for its golf courses, several young women found safety, stability and support. Officially, it’s the Young Women’s Transitional Home of Moore County. But folks here call it TambraPlace, the name the nonprofit’s board members picked to honor the driving force behind its creation — Tambra Chamberlain. For the young women now living there, it’s home.