In a Florida prison, a mentally ill inmate dies after guards punish him by locking him in a scalding hot shower for well over an hour. At Rikers Island jail, a guard argues with a frail 52-year-old inmate, and proceeds to beat the man to...
A new study finds that the quantity of social interactions a person has in young adulthood influences their well-being later in life. Experts agree that being socially connected promotes a person’s overall and psychological health....
About 1.7 million more children live in low-income working families today than during the Great Recession, according to the newly released 2015 KIDS COUNT Data Book from the Annie. E. Casey Foundation. In 2013, one in four children,...
Minnesota is shaking things up in the pursuit of better, brighter futures for America’s kids. For the first time in about a decade, a state outside of New England has captured the no. 1 spot in the KIDS COUNT rankings for overall...
This series has been about the underlying reasons why healthcare cost is out of control while quality underperforms expectation. As noted many times, our expensive system is the result of how we have viewed the problem. Moreover, when we come...
Authors Deepali M. Patel and Sarah M. Tracey, Rapporteurs; Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally; Board on Children, Youth, and Families; Board on Global Health; Institute of Medicine; National Research Council Description This report...
Figures out in June suggest that the number of children being taken into care is at its highest ever. Last month the children and family courts service received over 1100 care applications, a 25% increase on this time last year. Itself a...
The World Health Organization (WHO) adopted the ACE screening tool, and used [an apparently modified version of it, in its 2013 Survey of the World's Healthiest Children. But when I briefly looked at it, on the WHO website, I thought it contained a total of eighteen [rather than ten questions in the original ACE screening tool] primary questions. I also didn't know how they scored their WHO 18 primary question ACE survey, or interpreted what someone's score was, and what it means. Is anyone...
Here's the scenario: You are moving across country. Driving from Los Angeles, CA to Sarasota, FL. Everything you own is in your car. EVERYTHING. You need to make it to Sarasota FAST. You start a new job in less than a week. You've given...
Alex Landau, an African American man, was raised by his adoptive white parents to believe that skin color didn’t matter. But when Alex was pulled over by Denver police officers one night in 2009, he lost his belief in a color-blind...
If you have a disability in the U.S., you're twice as likely to be poor as someone without a disability. You're also far more likely to be unemployed. And that gap has widened in the 25 years since the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act...
Research shows that one in 28 children have a parent in jail. It's a growing problem in the Roanoke Valley, and that's why Family Service of Roanoke Valley is starting a support group called, What About Me next month for middle school- aged...
With President Obama’s speech to the NAACP and his visit to a federal prison last week, the push for criminal justice reform took center stage. His statements crystallized the growing bipartisan agreement in...
She knew her son was dead when she heard the gunshots. At least four staccato pops in a matter of seconds. Four bullets fired in the same amount of time needed to open a bottle of soda or to steal a kiss. “I told [the police] that my son was mentally ill, I tell them that every time I call,” said Lynn Eagle Feather. “I just asked for help. Instead they killed my son.” Her son, Paul Castaway, was a Rosebud Sioux tribal citizen who had battled mental...
When James Hansen speaks, climate hawks listen. Hansen was legendary during his long career as NASA’s chief climatologist for being ahead of the curve on seeing the threat of catastrophic climate change. Now he teaches at Columbia...