Latham Consulting Group, LLC, Forensic Mental Health Consultation for Children and Adolescents

Advocacy organizations

Child Abuse Prevention Network
Child Welfare League of America
Children's Defense Fund
Coalition for Juvenile Justice
Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
Kaiser Family Foundation
Massachusetts Citizens for Juvenile Justice
Massachusetts Kids Count
Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse
Safer Society Foundation, Inc.
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Clinical and medical information

Asperger Syndrome Information
Attention Deficit Disorder in Children and Adults
Center for Collaborative Problem Solving (treatment approaches for explosive and inflexible children)
Directory of Massachusetts psychiatric hospitals for children
Directory of Massachusetts residential programs for children
Yale University Developmental Disabilities Clinic


Bipolar disorder in children and adolescents

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Bipolar Disorder in Teens
Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation
Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation
National Institutes of Mental Health Mood Disorders Program
Suicide and Youth with Bipolar Disorder


Federal agencies

Center for Mental Health Services of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Center for Sex Offender Management (CSOM)
FBI Uniform Crime Reports
National Institute of Mental Health
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
OJJDP Sex Offender Research Bibliography
OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book
U.S. Department of Justice
U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics
U.S. Government Printing Office (documents from many federal agencies)  
U.S. Secret Service Threat Assessment Center


Forensic resources

Building Blocks for Youth—state by state information on the juvenile justice system
Ethics codes and practice standards for forensic mental health clinicians
Forensic Nursing Resource Links
Forensic Psychology/Psychiatry Database
Forensic Psychology and Psychiatry resource site with forensic links
Forensic Psychiatry On-line
Forensic Psychiatry Resources
Forenzic.com—Law, psychiatry, and public policy resource site
David Willshire's Forensic Psychology and Psychiatry Links Extensive List of Links
Institute of Mental Health Law - information about mental health legislation around the world
National Youth Court Center—listing of youth courts, publications, training and resources
Office of Child Development, Neuropsychiatry and Mental Health
PsychWatch Forensic resources


Legal research and information

American Bar Association (general legal resources)
FindLaw (Swiss Army knife of internet legal research)  
Law.com
Lawyer’s Weekly
Legal Information Institute (full text of Supreme Court decisions and more)
Massachusetts Mental Health Law—Key Cases
State and Regional Sex Offender Registry Lists
State Mandatory Reporting Laws
State statutes—Connecticut
State statutes—Maine
State Statutes—Massachusetts
State statutes—New Hampshire
State Statutes—Pennsylvania
State Statutes—Rhode Island
State statutes—Vermont


Massachusetts government


Committee for Public Counsel Services
Department of Correction
Department of Mental Health
Department of Social Services
Government Homepage
Massachusetts Legislature
Massachusetts Legislature-Membership list by community
Massachusetts Legislature-Bill tracking page


Media violence and children's behavior

Do Video Games Lead to Aggressive Behavior
Grading the Movies
Kids in Mind: Movie Ratings
Media Literacy Online Project
National Institute on the Media and the Family
Teaching Elementary School Children about Media Violence


Professional associations

American Academy of Child ande Adolescent Psychiatry
American Academy of Forensic Psychology/American Board of Forensic Psychology
American Academy of Forensic Sciences
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
American Correctional Association
American Polygraph Association
American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children
American Psychiatric Association
American Psychological Association
American Psychology-Law Society
Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers
Massachusetts Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers
Massachusetts Bar Association
National Association for the Education of Young Children
National Organization of Forensic Social Work
National Association of Social Workers
National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, Forensic Division


Public information and education


Love Doesn't have to hurt:  Teen Dating Violence
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Research and literature Sites
 
APA's Information Services in Psychology
ChildTrends Data Bank
Clinical Criminology Homepage
Juvenile Sex Offender Research Bibliography at OJJDP (All JSO Topics)
Highwire: Free Reprints of Many Psych. Journal Articles
Macarthur Foundation Research Network on Adolescent Development
Massachusetts DMH Forensic Training and Research
Mental Health Infosource
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
National Child Welfare Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues
National Children's Advocacy Center Sex Abuse Bibliographies
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Information Center
National Institute of Mental Health
National Library of Medicine PubMed literature database
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States


Specific articles and instruments related to sexual aggression

Colorado Dept. of Public Safety standards for use of the polygraph with adolescents
Dept of the Solicitor General, Canada, Corrections Dept. reports about risk assessment
Registrant Risk Assessment Scale for Sex Offenders


Targeted school violence

Family Policy Compliance Office (technical assistance on FERPA)
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA; regulates information sharing by schools)
Final report and findings of the Secret Service Safe School Initiative
Secret Service Guide to Threat Assessment in Schools
U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center