In 8th grade, I did not understand terms like dropout or school push-out. I didn’t know that there was a vocabulary or a movement to address what I saw in my middle school or high school: a lot of my friends did not graduate with...
The California Endowment’s Center for Healthy Communities recently hosted documentary filmmaker James Redford and screened his new film Paper Tigers . The film captures the pain, the danger, the beauty, and the hopes of teens struggling to...
On Thursday, when he tours El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in Oklahoma, Barack Obama will become the first American president to visit a federal prison while in office. But this won’t be his first visit to a prison of any kind....
WHEN an old offense caught up with 28-year-old Robert Lepolszki last year, he had a full-time job and had kicked heroin. But Frank Gulotta Jr., the Nassau County judge assigned to his case, forced him to end the only treatment that had ever...
AMERICAN psychiatry is facing a quandary: Despite a vast investment in basic neuroscience research and its rich intellectual promise, we have little to show for it on the treatment front. With few exceptions, every major class of current...
Your face has a profound effect on the people around you. Its expression can prompt assumptions about how kind, mean or trustworthy you are. And for some people, a study finds, it could help determine their fate in court. Individuals who are...
A new study has found that alcohol problems can be effectively reduced in homeless people with mental illness when they are given a place to live with no preconditions, such as sobriety or seeing a psychiatrist. The approach, known as...
You may recall the story of Rosa's Fresh Pizza from the first time we covered it back in March 2015. The Philadelphia-based eatery is making sure kindness isn't just a slogan in the City of Brotherly Love. They invite customers to...
The Department of Children and Families is beginning improvements at its secure juvenile justice programs, including the Connecticut Juvenile Training School, to more effectively identify youth needs to offer more responsive services to meet...
The female prison population has increased 646% in the past three decades, primarily due to inmates receiving sentences for nonviolent, low-level offenses. The United States imprisons more women than any other country, all at the taxpayer’s...
July 17, 2014: the day Eric Garner died on Staten Island. The 43-year-old African-American father of six suffered from cardiac arrest after two police officers administered a chokehold. The crime: selling loose cigarettes. The entire...
A 20-year retrospective study, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and published in the July 2015 issue of the American Journal of Public Health , suggests that kindergarten students who are more inclined to exhibit “social...
On Monday, Newsweek’s Lauren Zanolli reported on the rising suicide rate in Greece. As the country has fallen into economic instability, so too, it seems, has the mental health of an increasing number of Greek citizens....
TL;DR: Modern technology has the potential to contribute significantly to the healing, resiliency, happiness and community of people exposed to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) - and generally disrupt the way we think interpersonal support...
This terrifying research points to yet another reason that it is critical to reboot and rebuild how our communities function. "...people with the most self-control and resilience have the highest likelihood of defying...