In 2006, Alabama lawmakers passed a bill aimed at punishing parents who turned their kitchens and garages into do-it-yourself meth labs, exposing their children to toxic chemicals and noxious fumes. Support was bipartisan, the vote was...
Being trauma informed in treatment matters. In fact, Stephanie S. Covington, PhD, LCSW, Institute for Relational Development/Center for Gender and Justice, said it doesn’t even make sense to provide treatment without...
For Sammie Gallaway, being pregnant at 21 was terrifying. She was overjoyed about the life growing inside her but anxious that she wouldn't know what to do. "At first I was excited, and then I was worried. I thought, 'How will I do this? What...
This week, the Cut is considering what it means to be a woman who leads. It's a conversation that Michel Martin knows well. She herself has made a boss journey up the media ranks, first as a reporter at the Washington Post, then a...
I had my first pelvic exam at age 13 in a juvenile detention center. It was a frightening, humiliating experience. There was no mother, auntie or other supportive female present to guide me and explain the procedure. Afterwards, as my fellow inmates...
There has often been much focus on the need to reduce the risk of suicide in prisons. However, research into suicides by former inmates is "underinvestigated," according to a new study published in Sociology of Health and Illness....
The suicide of Sandra Bland in the Waller County Jail last month has focused much-needed attention on the mental health needs of those who end up incarcerated. Suicide is the second-leading cause of death in Texas jails, but the state requires...
School is still out for the summer, but at Eastern Senior High School in Washington, D.C., students are hard at work — outdoors. In a garden filled with flowers and beds bursting with vegetables and herbs, nearly a dozen teenagers are...
Developers of a new video game for your brain say theirs is more than just another get-smarter-quick scheme. Akili , a Northern California startup, insists on taking the game through a full battery of clinical trials so it can get approval from...
It happened again… another family told me their story of working through the ramifications of a kinship adoption, bringing a troubled child of a troubled relative into their home and their lives, including their faith community. But, when this...
I've only found this post today on 10th August 2015. I note this conversation was beginning in July 2015 I took the ACE test and my ACE is 8. Where would I find the same test for Resilience so I may do a comparative study on...
Local educators and school staff members have a better idea of how to identify and help traumatized students as the school season quickly approaches. "Before we used to look at them and think they were acting up because you know, they're bad...
“First of all, let’s get one thing straight: crack is cheap,” Whitney Houston told Diane Sawyer, defiantly, in a now-infamous 2002 interview . “I make too much money to ever smoke crack.... Crack is whack.”...
It's no big surprise that young children first learn language by listening to adults talk to them. Nor is it a surprise that reading aloud to kids is important to their success , both in school and work. What might be a bit more...
It seems that America’s biggest nurseries are failing at their job. Those “nursuries”—the states with the largest-growing youth populations—tend to produce the worst outcomes for kids, judged by such measures as...