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A comprehensive Trauma-Informed Care bill quietly introduced in the final days of the 114th Congress

In the final weeks of the 114 th Congress, Senators Heitkamp, Durbin, and Franken introduced The Trauma-Informed Care for Children and Families Act (S. 3519)—a wide ranging bill that proposes new strategies to expand trauma-informed best practices and models, train clinicians, law enforcement officials, teachers and health care providers in trauma-informed approaches, and improve the understanding of trauma’s impact and prevalence. Despite the lack of fanfare around the bill’s introduction,...

This Is Your Brain on Poverty: What’s in a Name? [PSMag.com]

In a study about identity, female Asian-American college students were asked to take a math test. Before the test, one group was asked questions that primed them to think of themselves as women first (for example, their views about co-ed dorms). The other group was asked questions that primed them to think of themselves as Asian first (what languages they spoke at home, and how many generations of their family had lived in the United States). The women primed to think of themselves as female...

Why Do So Few Americans Take Maternity Leave? [PSMag.com]

You probably already know the United States has some of the worst parental leave laws in the world. Among the 41 countries that make up the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the U.S. is the only one with no guaranteed paid time off to care for a new baby. But it’s hard to say how these laws actually affect new parents, since no federal agency collects data on how many workers take parental leave. A few recent analyses, however, might offer some clues. It turns out that...

How to Make the New Economy Work for Everyone [PSMag.com]

In 2015, the Aspen Institute, joined by Mark Warner , the Democratic senator from Virginia, and Mitch Daniels, the former Republican governor of Indiana, launched an ambitious project called the Future of Work. The purpose of the initiative, which was initially prompted by Warner’s interest in the policy issues posed by the growing gig economy, is, according to its website , “to propose a new course — a way to upgrade America’s economic reward structure to keep pace with the shifting...

Should presidents be required to pass a mental health exam? [Syracuse.com]

Should we require presidents to have their mental health verified? Jimmy Carter wanted a panel of physicians who would routinely evaluate the Commander-In-Chief's psychological health, and many say checking the mental capacity of the person who will control our nuclear arsenal is just common sense. Yet some of our greatest leaders struggled with mental health issues. Abraham Lincoln was famously depressive --would he have been disqualified? Do you think presidents need a psychological exam?

What Betsy DeVos Didn't Say About School Choice [TheAtlantic.com]

The confirmation hearing of Betsy DeVos, packed with reporters, surrogates, and congressional staff, was more heated than any Department of Education hearing in recent memory. DeVos made headlines for her evasive answers about political contributions made by her family’s foundation , her failures to denounce gun bans in schools ( citing the threat of “potential grizzly bears” ), and her shaky grasp of federal education in general . But one topic never came up: American schools’ deeply...

How Iceland Got Teens to Say No to Drugs [TheAtlantic.com]

It’s a little before 3 p.m. on a sunny Friday afternoon and Laugardalur Park, near central Reykjavik, looks practically deserted. There’s an occasional adult with a stroller, but the park’s surrounded by apartment blocks and houses, and school’s out—so where are all the kids? Walking with me are Gudberg Jónsson, a local psychologist, and Harvey Milkman, an American psychology professor who teaches for part of the year at Reykjavik University. Twenty years ago, says Gudberg, Icelandic teens...

THE HEROISM OF INCREMENTAL CARE [NewYorker.com]

By 2010, Bill Haynes had spent almost four decades under attack from the inside of his skull. He was fifty-seven years old, and he suffered from severe migraines that felt as if a drill were working behind his eyes, across his forehead, and down the back of his head and neck. They left him nauseated, causing him to vomit every half hour for up to eighteen hours. He’d spend a day and a half in bed, and then another day stumbling through sentences. The pain would gradually subside, but often...

How social factors drive up suicide rates among pregnant women [TheConversation.com]

Pregnant women in South Africa who live in poor communities are more likely to consider or attempt suicide than the general population. That’s a key finding from a recent study we undertook at Hanover Park. The research found 12% of pregnant women living in low-resource communities had thought of killing themselves during the previous month. In the same period, an additional 6% of pregnant women reported they had started to enact a suicide plan or attempted to end their lives. Rates of...

States Must Move Funding from Correctional Facilities to Community-Based Treatment [JJIE.org]

Across the United States, juvenile arrest rates have reached 40-year lows , dropping precipitously over the past 20 years. As the national juvenile arrest rates have fallen in recent decades, so too has youth incarceration. States now have a choice: they can continue to invest in the detrimental and ineffective incarceration of youth, or reinvest in community-based alternatives that address the underlying causes of crime. From its peak in 1996 to the most recent national data available for...

Dr. Anthony Biglan- The Nurture Effect and recent post

Hi there everyone- please check out Dr. Biglan's book The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World. Very practical! As well Dr. Biglan offered the following blog post recently that regardless of your political orientation I hope that you will be able to find value in the core message. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/an-evidence-based-strategy-for-bringing-everyone-together_us_587bad19e4b03e071c14fdf7 Additionally if you haven't had the...

3 months after airing, did "No Room in Paradise" make a difference [HawaiiNewsNow.com]

The film director and producer of "No Room in Paradise" appeared on Sunrise this morning to talk about the impact of his documentary, 3 months after it aired. Anthony Aalto said that some progress has been made, but we have a long way to go. Here are some of the issues he addressed: Q: It’s been three months since your documentary first aired right here on Hawaii News Now. It created quite a stir. More than a million people watched the trailer, members of the Legislature asked you to...

The Knight Cities Challenge Draws Plans to Embrace Diversity [CityLab.com]

Residents of St. Paul, Minnesota, could very well see a mobile fleet of bike-powered hot tubs to cure the winter blues. Meanwhile, bus riders in southwest Detroit might find themselves waiting for their next ride at a “stoplet,” a bus stop decked out to have “the feel of an intimate city park.” And folks in Philadelphia, don’t resist when the enticing smell of food draws you to a marketplace for immigrant cuisine in Mifflin Square Park. These are just a handful of the 144 finalists for the...

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