Abstract: Among juvenile offenders, those who commit the greatest number and the most violent offenses are referred to as serious, violent, and chronic (SVC) offenders. However, current practices typically identify SVC offenders only...
The Center for Hunger-Free Communities recently published an article, The Relationship between Child Adversity and Food Insecurity: It's Like a Bird Nesting in Your Head , in Public Health Nutrition. This article describes the...
If we don’t start doing right by kids with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges, we’re going to keep losing them at an astounding rate. Doing the right thing isn’t an option…it’s an imperative. There are lives in...
In my 12-plus years as an urban superintendent in California, parents often spent more time talking to me about school safety than about teaching and learning. Perhaps that’s just common-sense recognition that the latter can’t take place...
For Dr Doree Ann Espiritu, asking troubled souls about suicidal intent is always a delicate moment. “There’s always a fear that if you ask about suicide, you are giving them [the patients] an idea about what they can do,” the Detroit-based psychiatrist says. “Almost giving them a hint about what they might do. “If you are not used to this type of work, it is something that you dread as a psychiatrist,” Espiritu says. “Either you have already...
Penn’s mental health task force recommendations have provoked students to question whether the administration is taking the right steps to promote mental wellness at all. The recommendations, released on Tuesday and created in the wake of...
What Julio remembers most about the twenty days he spent canoeing and trekking with 10 other at-risk youth in the Florida Everglades were the swarms of mosquitoes. “They were thick, like clouds,” says Julio, speaking in his...
More than 200 scientists working on an ambitious federal project have begun to understand the complicated system of switches that regulates genes, turning some on and others off, making some glow brightly while others dim. They hope these discoveries,...
David J. Morris returned from Iraq with a case of post-traumatic stress disorder. The former Marine turned war correspondent was plagued by nightmares. His imagination careened out of control; he envisioned fireballs erupting while on trips to the...
In December 2009, 30 students at a high school in South Philadelphia, mostly recent Asian immigrants, were beaten up at school by their peers. Several had to be hospitalized. The federal government later alleged that school administrators had...
Doctors typically wait until smokers are ready to quit before prescribing pills to help them do it. But a new study has found that even for those who are not ready to stop smoking immediately, medicine taken over time can substantially improve...
In 2004, I cofounded a child sexual abuse prevention organization in Iceland. I moved my family there and ran this project for two years. Then I moved my family back to the U.S. and participated with the organization through the web and by...
David J. Morris, a former Marine infantry officer and a reporter in some of the most violent regions of the Iraq war, blacked out while watching a movie and ran out of the theater, only to regain awareness of himself in the lobby as he anxiously...
The senior-living and affordable-housing worlds are preparing for a "silver tsunami." Where will all the Baby Boomers live out their golden years? Will more age in place than in previous generations? The coming decades will see major...
A bill for an act 1.2relating to education; requiring school districts to adopt a policy on recess 1.3for elementary school students;amending Minnesota Statutes 2014, section 1.4121A.215. 1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF...