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Under investigation by the inquiry are residential homes run by the North’s local authorities, juvenile justice institutions, secular residential centres in the voluntary sector, and other voluntary homes run by the  Catholic Church . The...

At best, [Daniel Romer, Ph.D., of the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg Public Policy Center in Philadelphia] said, the policies might convince kids to lay off the drug their school is testing for—which is most commonly marijuana. But even if that's true, Romer added, students in school sports and clubs are actually not the ones at greatest risk of developing drug problems. "So as a prevention effort," Romer said, "school drug testing is kind of wrong-headed." So what does...

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is the nation's largest philanthropy "devoted exclusively to health and health care". It created the Commission to Build a Healthier America in 2008 to identify ways "beyond health  care— to improve the...

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When I think of Vermont, what comes to my mind are Ben & Jerrys ice cream , the von Trapp family, cheese, and now heroin. Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin devoted his entire 2014 State of the State address to a drug addiction crisis in this state, saying We have lost the war on drugs. The notion that we can arrest our way out of this problem is yesterdays theory. He said deaths from heroin overdose doubled in 2013 from the year...

Bangor Daily News reporter Nok-Noi Ricker did a great job in this story about two young children who suffered from the effects of witnessing their mother being abused, and whose recovery is now "bittersweet". Now that some time has passed, Tracey...

Many of us, whether in trauma or just excess stress, unfortunately find the holidays to be the worst time of the year.  But I am so grateful for how wonderful I feel in 2014!  That’s why I wanted you to see some of my 2013 holiday...

This report is very compelling. If ACEs is the largest chronic public health disaster in the U.S., as Robert Anda says, and is the single most important health problem facing Americans, as Bessel van der Kolk says, then perhaps adverse childhood...

Across the U.S., 20 to 40 percent of child welfare case workers leave their job every year, according to City Limits reporter Rachel Blustain. Foster kids with one caseworker usually found a permanent home; those with six or seven caseworkers usually...

Stephanie Woodard did this story for Indian Country Today. She reports how a mother  of disabled 16-year old twins is trapped between the laws of two states. People interviewed in the story say that child welfare services and the courts are using...

One of the most shared videos was a  cartoon showing scenarios  of how parents can educate their kids and how children should deal with harassment. Within 48 hours the hashtag had been tweeted more than 100,000 times and the video had...