When Michael Hollister was tasked with creating a hunger heat map for the Capital Area Food Bank in Washington, D.C., the initial hot spots were right where everyone expected—the District’s poor...
The minimum wage peaked in 1968 at $8.54 per hour , after adjusting for inflation. The current $7.25 is far too low for the 3 million hourly workers who earn at or below that threshold, and certainly not at...
On Friday , I shared 15 ways we can boost our health and well-being, which have nothing to do with weight. Health is very personal, and how you define health is entirely up to you. My intention is to show that there are many, many ways we...
In a classroom in the Bronx borough of New York City on a recent school day, a little boy in a green shirt got very frustrated. He was sitting on the floor with his fellow second-graders as they were going over a math problem with their...
In the kick-off to its new webinar series on the "Impact of Racism on the Health and Well-Being of the Nation," APHA began a discussion on how racism continues to weaken the nation. About 7,000 people registered for the July 21 webinar, which...
A unique and exciting opportunity for every person, organization or community interested in participating in building a trauma-informed U.S. takes place at the end of this month. It’s a chance to rub shoulders (virtually or in person) with...
Inside Precious Lamb Preschool , eight three- to five-year-olds sit in miniature blue chairs around a white table, eating cereal. Their gaze drifts often to a four- year-old who sits apart, alone, against a wall. He wears a turquoise polo...
Can events you endured as a child really impact your ability to have children yourself? New research in the Journal ofPsychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecologyexamines the mechanism by which adverse experiences in childhood impact female fertility. In their paper 'Adverse childhood event experiences, fertility difficulties and menstrual cycle characteristics', Marni B. Jacobs et al. explore the hypothesis that negative experiences in childhood can result in menstrual cycle...
Sara Bennett has been a criminal defense lawyer in New York for 30 years. She has represented men and women who have committed terrible acts; many have spent decades in prison, some have died there. “The longer you’re an attorney...
Disrupting a child’s trajectory into the juvenile justice system holds great promise for increasing life opportunities for that youth and for creating safer communities. Growing concern over zero tolerance policies in schools across the country...
Minnesota has the potential to become a trauma-informed state if the hard work is done to raise awareness of ACEs and the impact of toxic stress on brain development, says third-term state representative Rena Moran (D-St. Paul). Moran led the effort...
Working with foster children in her private psychotherapy practice in the 1980s, Dr. Toni Heineman realized that the profound effects of trauma and loss experienced by foster children were often exacerbated by another loss: that of their...
When we grow up in care, we’re mandated to services. When we come back into the system as parents, it still feels like no one’s listening to what we think we need. Here, five foster care alum and parents—whose names have been...
"I've been through and seen depression and anxiety in action, and thought Sarah's story was so perfectly simple," he told me. "We all get sick physically and mentally, but we need to be open to talking (and laughing) about [it]." I couldn't agree more, and I think this comic will resonate with a lot of people. [For more go to http://www.upworthy.com/a-comi...-of-living-with-them ]
At a time when "deport the immigrants" is an increasingly popular position , it's clear that animosity toward perceived outsiders remains a powerful driver of political attitudes. If you step back and identify the underlying emotional...