Hi, My program Community Links is trying to host a Crazy Cool Festival! From Stigma to Celebration! on Oct 11 in Prospect Park (NYC). It will be a time to celebrate the uniqueness, beauty, and power of our community! We'll have presentations,...
Unlike its neighbors, Nicaragua has a relatively low crime rate. Compared to Honduras, a country that's widely considered the most violent in the world, the homicide rate in Nicaragua is eight times lower: 11.3 murders per 100,000 people rather than...
An estimated 80 percent of children who have been sexually abused never tell anyone about it, the chairman of a new South Dakota task force said Tuesday at the panel’s first meeting. “We absolutely don’t know what to do and because...
He says the analysis painting Wisconsin as the only state with a growing gap between blacks and whites is yet another illustration of the challenges many black people here face, such as “poverty, unemployment, chronic stress and low educational...
It's all part of an effort to clear overcrowded prisons of non-violent drug offenders who would have received shorter sentences if they had been convicted today. [Listen to the story at http://www.npr.org/2014/08/07/...ug-offenders-pardons ]
Education is historically considered to be the thing that levels the playing field, capable of lifting up the less advantaged and improving their chances for success."Play by the rules, work hard, apply yourself and do well in school, and that will...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Interactive voice response systems integrated with electronic health records have the potential to improve primary care by engaging parents outside clinical settings via spoken language. The objective of this study was...
When it comes to brain development, time in the classroom may be less important than time on the playground. "The experience of play changes the connections of the neurons at the front end of your brain," says Sergio Pellis, a researcher at the...
If 11-year-old Jordan Brown had yet had the opportunity in school to learn about the United Nations, it probably wouldn't have surprised him to also learn that the U.S. is one of only two nations on the globe that have refused to ratify the UN...
Diabetics who live in low-income neighborhoods are about 10 times as likely to have an amputation as those who live in affluent areas, a study reports. Researchers used California hospital discharge data in 2009 to identify 7,793 lower-extremity...
My personal response to this depressing question would have to be an ashamed 'Yes' for the United States; a relieved 'No' for most of the rest of the developed world. Admittedly, though, I am not the best person to provide a long view answer. We will...
Los Angeles Unified Supt. John Deasy opened the new school year Tuesday with a speech to administrators in which he urged them to eliminate the dropout rate, and then assigned each one a struggling student to look after. Much of Deasy's talk at...
School coaches will be added to the list of jobs required to report suspected child abuse to authorities, according to legislation signed today by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Previously, state law was unclear on whether coaches were mandated to report...
Along the Front Range, there were 61 child victims of sex trafficking identified last year, and at least an equal number thought to be misidentified as drug, domestic violence or runaway cases. On June 23, the latest major FBI sting occurred, rescuing...
"I want to be a paleontologist," my young male patient said, squinting at a wrinkled clipping from the newspaper of a dinosaur skeleton at the museum as I examined him. An impressive aspiration for a 10-year-old who looked like he needed glasses, but...