If you’re paid $11 an hour, you earn about $1,900 a month (before taxes and withholding). Meanwhile, the average apartment rent in Sonoma County is about $1,600 a month. You’ll be OK, it seems, so long as you don’t need to put...
After being charged with burglary in 2013, Peter Yepez waited in the Fresno County, California, jail for a month before his assigned public defender came to talk to him. This delay was a sign of what was to come: Between arraignment and...
New findings by researchers at the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS) at the University of Washington demonstrate for the first time that an early social behavior called gaze shifting is linked to infants ability to learn new language sounds. Babies about 10 months old who engaged in more gaze shifting during sessions with a foreign language tutor showed a boost in a brain response that indicates language learning, according to the study ,...
Michelle Ross moved her family to the north Los Angeles County city of Palmdale in 2009 hoping to put her children in an environment where she no longer had to worry about crime. She was welcomed by her neighbors when she first arrived. But...
Publication date: July 2015 Previous studies have found that girls who perform well in school are less likely to become teen mothers. In this brief exploring the relationship between academic ability and the likelihood of...
Scholars and practitioners have made tremendous strides in making news about the trauma caused by several types of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) that lead to damaging physical, mental and social health consequences. But why does this matter?...
When someone is speaking about developmental trauma at a conference or webinar they are most often a clinician, scholar, teacher or researcher. If they have a lived experience of adverse childhood experiences that may not even be mentioned or spoken...
From ACEs Too High News : There are three ways to look at how the juvenile justice system is using modern practices to reduce youth crime and violence. One is what happens on the way to the detention center where a kid is held until trial...
Behind the Annie E. Casey Foundation ’s renewed push to close large, secure facilities it’s dubbed “youth prisons” lies what it calls a failure of earlier reforms that had once seemed hopeful. A recent TEDx...
For ten years, Gaby Bobadilla worked security part-time, often overnight. She and her three kids relied on cash aid and Medi-Cal to supplement her wages. But the solitary work didn’t satisfy the 30-year-old Desert Hot Springs resident,...
To live with mental illness in China is to live in an invisible world. Of the more than 100 million victims living with some form of mental illness in China, 16 percent are classified as severe, according to a 2009 report by China’s...
Juvenile justice reformers have tried for years to figure out what works to help rehabilitate youth in trouble, and a recent shift away from locking kids up has been at the forefront of reform efforts. One of the most common alternatives...
This month at Partner for Healing we have focused on vicarious transformation. Laurie Pearlman and Kay Saavitne describe this as: “ Vicarious transformation refers to the process of integrating a larger understanding of the...
In 2013, there were more than 41,000 deaths as a result of suicide in the U.S. Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death, claiming more lives each year than death due to motor vehicle crashes. Especially alarming, it is the second leading...
Nearly everyone in the Country has seen the infamous “elevator” tape of Ray Rice delivering the vicious knock-out punch that rendered his wife unconscious. No matter what your opinion on this one highly sensationalized...