"The Sexual Assault Response Team – also known as SART – held its first annual conference and focused on how to better help victims of child abuse. "In Pennsylvania, we were put on the map through Jerry Sandusky and post-Sandusky. The...
Abstract This paper investigates whether exposure to violence, sexual abuse, or bullying is associated with later work participation and whether high school completion has a potential mediating role. Self-reported junior high school questionnaire data...
"It’s clear that re-homing is an issue that must and should be addressed. As Jackie Mitchard writes me: “I know how desperate Joyce Maynard and others must have felt. Nothing is more disheartening and frightening to feel you...
"Putnam-Hortnstein identified 24,767 teen mothers ages 15-19, who had a child during 2006 or 2007 in Los Angeles County. They then traced the child maltreatment histories of those mothers back to their tenth birthdays, while tracking the instances of...
"Anyone who has spent any time in human services knows that multiple agencies all own a piece of the puzzle when it comes to helping and healing people and families. Health, mental health, schools, substance abuse services, law enforcement,...
"Prevent Child Abuse Athens was founded in 1986 by citizens concerned about high rates of child abuse in Athens. The organization searched for ways to support parents before any abuse occurred, realizing that some parents had experienced abuse...
Dr. Bruce Perry and Time Magazine agree: too much electronic interaction and not enough face-to-face "attachment" time with humans, is destroying our souls and society. Let's leave the computer sooner and go hug a human asap. Bruce Perry wrote...
"The Born This Way Foundation is opening doors for many youth to have the full life they are born to live. Many youth experience events in their early life, through no choice of their own, which can be deeply stressful to a developing mind and brain...
Morgan Rose, a high school psychologist healing a parade of broken children in her office every day and feeling in her heart what that really means, puts ACE Study brain science and Attachment Theory together in a book to popularize the truth for...
David Bornstein, who is a powerful writer for the column "Fixes - Exploring Solutions to Major Social Problems," with the New York Times, describes the great work in schools and other settings that are using alternatives to punishment as they...
"In honor of Veterans Day, Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless (MCCH) is humbled to announce we’ve been selected by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to serve those who served our county with dignity and honor. The VA recently...
"Over the past two decades, we’ve learned a lot about how best to help families and children when they come into contact with the child welfare system — and we’ve learned what doesn’t work. "The bottom line from years of...
"Being mindful appears to help prevent the formation of bad habits, but perhaps good ones too. Georgetown University researchers are trying to unravel the impact of implicit learning, and their findings might appear counterintuitive—at first....
"The county launched a “birth to three” initiative in 2005 to help the parents of young children with employment and parenting skills. More recently, the United Way began going into homes to teach parents how to prepare...
"Children who are exposed to traumatic events are more likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) if their parents suffer from PTSD as well, even if the child’s traumatic experience is unrelated to the parents’. So...