- and not in a good way. Quoting Jodi Wentland (Olmsted County's child and family services director) in Brandon Stahl's Star Tribune front page article today, turnover is too high, inexperienced social workers are taking cases...
Wealth and income inequality have many causes, and it’s pretty much beyond dispute that any well-functioning capitalist society will have some degree of disparity between the richest and the poorest. It’s also beyond...
A baby’s brain needs love to develop. What happens in the first year is profound . In the late 1980s, when the crack cocaine epidemic was ravaging America’s cities, Hallam Hurt, a neonatologist in Philadelphia, worried about the damage...
Part 1 of this blog Jan. 23 concluded that by 1978, Dr. Mary Ainsworth’s estimate for U.S. babies was that (A) 23% were Avoidant insecure (avoid parents); (B) only 69% were Securely Attached; and (C) 8% were Ambivalent insecure (unhappy and...
Sedlis Dowdy sat inside a quiet out-of-the-way room inside a maximum security prison in Elmira, New York, deep within layers of barbed wire and rings of heavy metal gates and guard stands. To get here he had to pass in front of a row of...
Editors Note: MAPP (Mobilizing for Action through Planning & Partnerships) is a local coalition that aims to use and build upon our strengths to improve our individual, family, and community health. Health is defined broadly to include cultural, economic, educational, environmental, mental, physical, and spiritual health. If you could do one single thing that decreased the number of people within our community experiencing anxiety by 56 percent, life...
A Yale-led research team has identified the molecular mechanism by which insulin normally inhibits production of glucose by the liver and why this process stops working in patients with type 2 diabetes, leading to hyperglycemia. The findings...
Since 1970, life expectancy around the world has risen dramatically, with people living more than 10 years longer. That's the good news. The bad news is that starting when people are in their mid-to-late-20s, the brain begins to...
The state of the juvenile correction system in America is dreadfully lacking in effectiveness and is increasing in population year-over-year. The US h as the highest youth incarceration rate in the world with 336 juvenile incarcerations per...
We have just posted two new papers for the ACES community on the website of the Institute for Child Success. Both are in the "When Brain Science Meets Public Policy" series. When Brain Science Meets Public Policy: Strategies for Building...
“I’M LOSING my sanity,” one prisoner wrote. “You could not tell day from night,” another reported. “You were always backward. . . . No light coming in the building. You be lost.”...
There is no one way — that’s the joke. Though lately we have collectively been bombarded by one singular image of what it means to be black in this time and space. Seated in a row of eight black chairs beside a group of white and...
What if we told you there was an issue that virtually everyone — Democrat, Republican and Independents — agreed on? Would it further surprise you that it's a subject on which we've been silent for generations? But now, an...
The definition of insanity is. [doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results.] Only problem is that insanity isnt a medical diagnosis at all. Its only a pop-culture term or idea. Mental illness is a normative part of human existence. As normal a part of your and my life as any sickness or illness. From temporary situational anxiety and depression or anger we all experience; to chronic anxiety, depression, bipolar 1&2,...
I must admit I was hesitant when I saw it on the agenda for the New Partners for Smart Growth conference here: "Poverty Simulation, 2-5 p.m." How could this not be contrived or voyeuristic, somehow? I signed up nonetheless. The role-playing...