Four months after a federal judge in Sacramento declared that conditions for mentally ill inmates in the state’s prisons were “horrific,” California corrections officials unveiled sweeping new policies that will house them in...
Some of the state's most influential lawmakers on Monday called on California's foster care system to stop the reckless prescribing of psychiatric medications to troubled children, demanding the state quit spending tens of millions of tax dollars on...
Your health may be determined by stresses experienced by your great-grandparents. How does this change how we plan for the future? ...In the last two years alone, scientists around the world have begun to look to epigenetic inheritance to...
THE EVIDENCE BEHIND EVEN THE MOST HIGHLY-REGARDED TREATMENT MODELS FOR COURT-INVOLVED YOUTH ISN’T NEARLY AS STRONG AS ADVERTISED. [For more of this story, written by Dick Mendel, go to http://jjie.org/analysis-holes...idence-based/107453/ ]
As students return to the classroom this fall, one large group of children will be more likely than their peers to suffer learning disabilities, ADD/ADHD, behavioral problems, chronic school absence, and a host of other health concerns. These are the...
Last week, thousands of children who crossed the US border alone, illegally, were rushed into the nation’s courts under President Barack Obama’s recent mandate to expedite their deportation cases. In an effort to staunch the flood of...
It seemed a throwback to the days of the country doctor: Go to the patients instead of having them come to you. As a young intern in the pediatrics department at the University of Virginia’s medical school in the mid-1970s, Scott Henggeler got...
Jordana Steinberg, a second-year student at Sierra College, battled a severe childhood mood disorder and says she now wants to be an activist. “I want to be the person who helps other people,” said Jordana, daughter of state Senate...
Thank you Star Tribune and Brandon Stahl for your in depth reporting on the awful state of child protection in Pope County MN. A few months ago Brandon Stahl presented Star Tribune readers with the sad fact that four Minnesota...
Mary White makes house calls. She’s a senior community health worker in Philadelphia in the IMPaCT program at the Penn Center for Community Health Workers. She has 25 of the University of Pennsylvania Health System’s toughest patients....
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has announced new guidelines for how the league will handle incidents of domestic violence and sexual assault. The change in policy, explained an open letter to team owners, come a month after the NFL was criticized for...
(Editor's Note: NPR's Michel Martin was invited by St. Louis Public Radio to moderate a community conversation on Thursday around race, police tactics and leadership following the shooting death of Michael Brown. The following story is based on what...
Lack of sleep not only puts teens at risk for poor grades, it also puts them at increased risk for obesity, researchers warn. The study authors analyzed data collected from more than 10,000 Americans when they were aged 16 and 21. Nearly one-fifth of...
Here is a bit that I just wrote around the connections of "GTD weekly review", safety and trauma informed care. Trying to do some real cross connecting! Here is an excerpt: At Hopeworks, we say we work in a trauma informed manner....
Arguments between parents may damage their relationships with their children, a new study indicates. Parents in more than 200 families were asked to make daily diary entries for 15 days. At the end of each day, mothers and fathers rated the quality of...