Young people in this country are exposed to violence or traumatic experiences at alarming levels. A 2011 survey funded by the U.S. Department of Justice (which formed the Defending Childhood Initiative ) found that most...
Oakland’s first homicide victim of 2014 was a boy named Lee Weathersby III. He was shot on New Year’s Eve and died early the next morning. Police say it appears he was not the intended target of the shooting. Lee would have turned...
The scene took place a short drive from the University of Pennsylvania campus, but it might have been worlds away. Glen Casey, then 10 or 11 years old, watched in fascination as his father sat in the bedroom cutting up cocaine for resale....
Jane Maier was one of a select group of patients invited in early 2012 to help Partners HealthCare, Massachusetts’ largest health system, pick its new electronic health record system – a critical investment of close to $700 million....
The streets of Baltimore were quieter Tuesday night, a day after vandalism and rioting forced officials to implement a curfew. Today, the Orioles plan to play an MLB game without an audience, and a woman who yanked her son away from potential...
Editor's note: This post contains some language that many will find offensive. Lots of people are looking for words to make sense of Freddie Gray's death and the subsequent unrest in Baltimore, and have turned to writers — from...
Teens may have an increased risk for psychosomatic symptoms -- physical problems caused by mental distress -- if their parents separate or divorce, a new study suggests. Those who lived mostly with one parent due to a family breakup had the...
Two years ago Jenaie Scott had a $20 an hour cleaning job, which was plenty to cover the rent for a modest apartment on the west side of this state’s capital city. But Scott lost the job in a 2013 downsizing, setting off a downward spiral...
In September of 2014, Georgetown University National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health and JBS International went live with a web-based, video enhanced resource called Trauma Informed Care: Perspectives and Resources. The...
I copied this from ACEsTooHigh.com. The formatting is a bit messed up with the photos, but the story is the same. You can read the original here , if you prefer. A note regarding this post, that I did not foresee having to...
Pediatrician Rhea Boyd says it's time for the effects of police violence on African-American communities to be treated as a public health issue. In the wake of Sandy Hook, the response from physicians, and pediatricians in particular, was...
Being bullied as a child may take a larger toll on a young adult's mental health than being abused or neglected at home, a new study suggests. Kids who are the victims of bullies are more likely to experience anxiety, depression and to try to...
Acceptance of science has become increasingly polarized in the United States. Indeed, a recent Pew poll shows that there is a substantial and growing amount of public disagreement about basic scientific facts, including human evolution, the...
For the last dozen years, waves of idealistic Americans have campaigned to reform and improve K-12 education. Armies of college graduates joined Teach for America. Zillionaires invested in charter schools. Liberals and conservatives, holding...
The Family Nurturing Center is on a mission to prevent future heroin abuse by intervening in the lives of children who have been traumatized. Northern Kentucky, a center of the nationwide heroin scourge, is seeing dramatic increases in...