Educators and clinicians have long recognized that children and youth with social, emotional, and learning problems often experience neglect and abuse in earlier years. Research now shows that harm associated with traumatic childhood...
When President Clinton signed executive order 12898 in 1994, there were only four states with any kind of policy resembling environmental justice — policies that are designed to protect people of color and low-income from being exposed to...
Fifty years ago, on April 11, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson went back to his old schoolhouse next to the Pedernales River in Stonewall, Texas, to sign the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, also known as the ESEA. Kate Deadrich Loney, one...
For adults, play time is far from over. Exhausted by the crushing yoke of their daily obligations, adults around the world are flocking to the playgrounds of their childhoods in search of relaxation and release. Not surprisingly, an entire...
One of the biggest holes in the net of services to treat teens with addictions lies not in what happens during residential treatment, but in what happens after youth leave a facility, a leading expert told a group at the Pathways to...
More than half of U.S. states allow children to be detained for repeated nonviolent “status offenses” such as skipping school, running away from home or possession of alcohol, a new report says. The revelation comes more than 40...
It was not a particularly violent crime that sent Michael Megginson to Rikers Island. He was arrested for stealing a cellphone. But in jail, Mr. Megginson, who is 25 and has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals since the age of 6, quickly...
There are all kinds of good reasons for the U.S. to finally catch up to the rest of the world when it comes to paid maternity leave. Here’s another: Giving parents paid time off after a child is born helps launch women up the corporate...
J oin Our Free 2nd Annual No-Spank Challenge! If you're ready to stop spanking, yelling or using other punitive techniques with your child, if you're struggling to discipline your children peacefully, or simply want to take your parenting...
Someone asked me for a copy of this report, in a private dialogue, and I thought I would avail it for anyone's use: from the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence: "The Mental Health Needs of Children in Homes with Domestic...
"Hands Around the World" comes to mind as I posted this information in +TRAUMA? STOP IT! which includes: Here is yet another expert’s word about the impact of trauma and hopes for its healing. This is the link to one of Dr....
"What is most striking about how therapies are developed and implemented in PTSD-land today is how rarely one actually hears what patients think about it at all" wrote David J. Morris in The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress...
I came home yesterday and found this email and attached video on my computer. My heart is still racing and I am very emotional. I am humbled, and I recognize that this gift is priceless, and one that I will carry with me for the...
Two rich and sobering reports have been released on the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on Alaskans and on the state’s Native people. The reports give specificity to the health, economic, and social challenges that are widely...
When I was in high school, I used to walk around Pittsburgh at night a lot. It wasn’t really a matter of defiance or anything like that — it was just what made sense. Buses were inconsistent and unreliable after about 8 p.m., I...