After decades of building prisons and increasing the number of people behind bars, the pendulum of California’s criminal justice system has swung away from incarceration. Among the policies and laws that are changing the way offenders are...
Some recall getting burned. Others say they've been strangled or attacked by dogs. Many suffer from depression and anxiety. These are only a small sampling of what tens of millions modern slaves endure daily, researchers in London reported...
Babies may get a brain boost in the womb when they hear the voices and heartbeats of their mothers, a new study suggests. Researchers studying premature babies in the hospital found that the sound centers in the babies' brains grew more quickly when...
Approximately 49 million children live in the 100 largest metro areas in the United States—that's two-thirds of America's total under-18 population. But some places are healthier places for children to grow up than others. A new...
Most of our $3 trillion national health care bill is spent on lifestyle diseases. Cancer and diabetes, heart failure and arthritis may come from random changes in the body. But obesity, smoking and inactivity certainly contribute. Health care...
I never thought of my grandfather Harry as someone who lived his life on the cultural or aesthetic cutting edge. He worked his whole adult life as an accountant for New York City, and retired to a ranch house in Plantation, Fla. But he was about 80...
For Whitney Bischoff, high school was tough. On the first day of her freshman year, a childhood friend committed suicide. Things weren't any better at home — her father died when she was 7 and her mom was an alcoholic with an abusive...
Jeffery Bailey spends nearly every day at his public library. It's not just that he loves books. For the 43-year-old who sleeps in a tent outside a local church, the library is pretty much the only place he can go that won't charge him to...
Advocates for women arrested on prostitution charges want the justice system to adopt a different approach. They say instead of being locked up, many prostitutes should actually be considered victims of human trafficking. And they're starting...
Staircases, as the architect Eva Jiricna writes in her book of the same title, are the products of the culture from which they spring, “reflecting the prevailing philosophies and symbolic languages, unveiling the talent and ingenuity of...
By David Shern, Ph.D. and Andrea Blanch, Ph.D. The outbreak of measles in Disneyland highlighted the importance of vaccinating children against contagious diseases. Vaccinations prevent children from getting ill and from spreading disease to...
The "Parents Like Us" group ( http://www.parentslikeus.com/ ) in Cedar Rapids found much their efforts on the article "A Better Start" (Zimmerman & Mercy, 2010). Co-author of the article, Francie Zimmerman from the Center for the Study of Social Policy, became a consultant for the project. "Abstract : Child abuse prevention programs have historically focused on individual and family dynamics rather than community-based or societal strategies to prevent child maltreatment.
A 16-year-old who grew up experiencing adversity in childhood said this to Brian Martin several years ago, and he included her story in his book, Invincible: The 10 Lies You Learn Growing Up With Domestic Violence and the Truths to Set You...
J. Dean Lewis, Judge (retired) Former Member, National CASA Association Board of Trustees Past President, National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges hat is a trauma-informed dependency court? Why is it critical to positive outcomes...
Don't talk to Dale G. Caldwell about childhood trauma. He sees its collateral damage way too often. As the head of school of the Village Charter School in Trenton, Caldwell knows that many of the students who fill his classrooms live with the...