On a recent Tuesday morning, members of the DNA Cold Case task force in Cleveland, Ohio, gathered for their weekly meeting. The conference room filled with detectives, prosecutors, a crime analyst, several victim advocates—and one...
The percentage of students whose parents reported involvement in their schools rose significantly between 1999 and 2007 across several measures, including attendance at a general meeting, a meeting with a teacher, or a school event, and...
The United States is facing a crisis of opportunity. Recent studies have shown that economic mobility in America is on the low end when compared to rates of economic mobility in other developed countries[i]. This raises an important question: how does one advance in the American economy? To help answer this question, Child Trends, working in collaboration with the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, helped to develop the Social Genome Model. To explain what the Social...
The simple parenting strategy of helping toddlers understand emotion may reduce behavioral problems later on, finds a federally funded study led by a Michigan State University researcher. The study, published in the September issue of...
Thirty percent of medical students have received treatment for a mental health condition and 15 percent have considered suicide — alarming statistics, say experts. “The number of students reporting mental illness or considering...
In 2007, the Whole Foods supermarket chain built one of their largest stores on New York City’s storied Lower East Side, occupying an entire block of East Houston Street from the Bowery to Chrystie Street. For the well-off, the abundant...
Last night I took your test and my ACEs score was 8 or 9. As a child no one was there for me. In the 1950's and 60's parents had all the power. So I thought about how I became resilient. It was Biblio therapy or Story-therapy. I found... a...
Dave Lockridge sent back this short missive and a couple of photos from the DRC, where he's doing a series of train-the-trainers workshops about tra uma-informed practices. I'm conducting 3-day trauma-informed ACE Overcomers trainings in...
This is by far my most vulnerable blog. I feel the need to write it, yet am scared to death to share it. However a blog isn’t a blog unless you write about something personal and share it with others – even complete strangers! So, here we...
Director and producer Vic Compher’s documentary film, Portraits of Professional Caregivers: Their Passion. Their Pain , takes a deeper look at the causes of and treatments for what’s called secondary traumatic stress, a condition commonly...
Do you work with a disadvantaged population? Do you often feel like it is difficult to understand the behavior of some of your clients or constituents. Ever wonder how some people can be so short-tempered, or withdrawn when working with...
Attention deficit disorder, defiance, bullying — a multitude of issues that stand between children and their ability to learn may actually be behaviors they learned in self-defense. “For a lot of these children, when we look under a...
Walking quickly toward the Bronx Criminal Court, Diva pulls out a Newport menthol, shields the cigarette from the wind, and flicks her lighter twice, ’til it catches. “Take a trip or something, that’s what I want to do,”...
Steven Kim begins his presentation with a question: What words do you associate with gangs? Even amongst this group of youth counselors and educators at the Koreatown Youth and Community Center during a gathering last May, the responses veer...
When President Obama spoke to the Democratic National Convention in Colorado seven years ago, he tried to call a truce in one of the nation's long-running social debates. "We may not agree on abortion. But surely we can agree on reducing the...