Administrators in San Francisco Unified will no longer be able to use “willful defiance” as a reason to suspend or expel a student, beginning in the 2014-15 school year. San Francisco’s school board voted unanimously Tuesday to...
"To be eligible for the program you must be pregnant, live in Torrington or Winsted, and score higher than 1 on the Adverse Childhood Experience survey." Local Rotary Club members learned about the Education Connection program Parents as Teachers with...
This is an excerpt from the transcript of a speech Gov. Deval Patrick delivered last week at UMass Boston regarding new approaches to dealing with state prison inmates. In the area of public safety, the equivalent example is the slogan, “tough...
Sandra Horley, chief executive of Refuge, said domestic violence was a problem of systemic proportions. She said women and children deemed to be at the highest risk must be given proper protection and the police must not use risk assessment as a "tick...
Does anyone have any thoughts on the recent wordage around the homeless being named as "the most vulnerable population?" Here in Camden, NJ, there has been an uptick in terminology like this to push for housing with the sense that once someone...
SAMHSA’s GAINS Center is pleased to announce the release of the Guidelines for the Successful Transition of People with Behavioral Health Disorders from Jail and Prison . Developed in collaboration with the Council of State...
This a part of the transcript of the audio story that aired on NPR on Tuesday: JENNIFER RODRIGUEZ [commissioner on the child abuse panel]: I was actually born into a family that probably had every risk factor that we're going to be talking talk about. My mother was seriously mentally ill - paranoid schizophrenic - my father was incarcerated, generational poverty. And my case was identified to the child welfare system immediately. [PAM] FESSLER [NPR reporter]: But it took 10 years before she...
Inexplicably, after Gov. Tomblin appointed an Early Childhood Planning Task Force made up of concerned citizens and parents, and after this same Task Force made a recommendation of expanding In-Home Family Education statewide, Governor Tomblin is...
This the fourth in a six-part series in the Vancouver (Canada) Sun about teens aging out of the British Columbia foster care system. The human brain is not fully developed until about age 25. Before that, young people can be impulsive, make poor...
The Florida Legislature is moving to overhaul the law governing the Department of Juvenile Justice during the session that starts March 4th. The rewrite would focus on preventing kids from coming into the juvenile justice system in the first...
Local leaders are in the midst of monthslong discussions that could make it easier for authorities to track the most dangerous domestic violence offenders and give victims additional layers of security. The proposed system would allow district court...
Journalist Rebecca Ruiz wrote this article about good and bad stress for California Magazine, the magazine for the University of California, Berkeley, Alumni Association. “If you go and look at the literature, we know there is a...
Federal health authorities on Tuesday reported a stunning 43 percent drop in the obesity rate among 2- to 5-year-old children over the past decade, the first broad decline in an epidemic that often leads to lifelong struggles with weight and higher...
LAKE FOREST, Calif. (AP) — A year after his son's suicide, popular evangelical pastor Rick Warren is taking on a new mental health ministry inspired by his personal tragedy. Warren, founder of Saddleback Church and a best-selling author, will...
From one of the Wire’s 5 best columns of the week: Petula Dvorak at The Washington Post on why victims shouldn’t be blamed for sexual assaults on campus. “At Patrick Henry (College), two women spoke to reporter Kiera...