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In November 2015, New York City First Lady Chirlane McCray launched ThriveNYC, a comprehensive mental health prevention and treatment program funded by the city to the tune of nearly $850 million. This is the program responsible for the ads and billboards found around New York City displaying messages like “Anxiety doesn’t define me,” and for training 250,000 mental health “First Aid” responders, to help people with mental illness and substance abuse disorders. The plan has been working well...

Seated at a kitchen table in a cramped apartment, Rosendo Gil asks the parents sitting across from him what they should do if their daughter catches a cold. Blas Lopez, 29, and his fiancée, Lluvia Padilla, 28, are quick with the answer: Check her temperature and call the doctor if she has a fever they can't control. "I'm very proud of both of you knowing what to do," Gil says, as 3-year-old Leilanie Lopez plays with a pretend kitchen nearby. Padilla says that's not a question they could have...

A review of Myrna Martin's short and direct pamphlet about the importance and approach to "co-creating secure attachment". The book is available in four languages and can be found at www.myrnamartin.net/books

ACEs, Adversity's Impact Interview: Windows into health care, part 1: Trauma and poverty Disadvantaged kids may be at higher risk for heart disease later in life Brain and Biology Brain injury in kids might lead to alcohol abuse Bullying Being bullied may dramatically affect sleep Back-to-school worries for parents? One in three very concerned bullying, cyberbullying Courts, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, and Probation Taycheedah Warden: Women's prison seeks to balance security,...

The news is heartbreaking and past trauma underpins so much of our fear and judgment. Wanted to post this for another hopeful angle. Healing is possible!

In-depth article on at-risk mothers, adverse childhood experiences, and trauma research! This article was published in the Washington Post on Monday, August 21, 2017: https://www.google.com/search?q=washington+post+Trauma+research+aids+at-risk+mothers+by+Mark+Beckford&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Violence Prevention Education Webinar Series Experts from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Violence Prevention Initiative (VPI) regularly conduct free educational webinars on various topics related to youth violence prevention. Watch VPI's most recent webinar which provides an overview of the complex issue of human trafficking in adolescents. The two hour session is presented by Jasmine Oglesby, MSW, Prevention Case Manager for the Adolescent Initiative at CHOP and Erica Smith, MEd,...

“No time.” Again and again, teachers tell me this is why they can’t teach social-emotional skills to their students—and it’s no wonder given the demands placed upon them. But while a 30-minute social-emotional learning (SEL) lesson might be impossible to fit into a week, slipping a social-emotional concept into already-existing curriculum content may not be. In one study , student teachers were paired with novice school psychologists to create language arts lessons with an SEL focus. The...

Bill Harris is blunt: For more than a year, he has been trying to help his wife die. The 75-year-old retired tech worker says it’s his duty to Nora Harris, his spouse of nearly four decades, who was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease in 2009. “Let me be honest: Yes. It’s what she wanted,” he said. “I want her to pass. I want her to end her suffering.” Nora Harris, 64, a former librarian, signed an advance directive after her diagnosis to prevent her life from being prolonged when...

This is the first article in a series produced in collaboration with The Guardian examining the climate affecting immigrant school children and their parents as the new school year begins. See a version of this article today at TheGuardian.com . If federal immigration agents come knocking, don’t open the door. You have the right to plead the Fifth Amendment and refuse to speak. Consult an attorney before signing any papers. Designate a trusted adult who can care for your child if you cannot.

Why do we measure people’s capacity To love by how well they love their progeny? That kind of love is easy. Encoded. Any lion can be devoted To its cubs. Any insect, be it prey Or predator, worships its own DNA. Like the wolf, elephant, bear, and bees, We humans are programmed to love what we conceive. That’s why it’s so shocking when a neighbor Drives his car into a pond and slaughter- Drowns his children. And that’s why we curse The mother who leaves her kids — her hearth — And never...

This post originally appeared at Mother Jones . On Tuesday, hours after President Donald Trump refused to blame white nationalists for the violence in Charlottesville, a federal court ruled that congressional districts drawn by Texas Republicans after the 2010 election were enacted with “ racially discriminatory intent ” against Latino and African-American voters. [For more of this story, written by Ari Berman, go to http://billmoyers.com/story/texas-gerrymandering-minority-voters/]