"A veteran police sergeant is suing Victoria Police over claims his crippling depression went untreated because police were encouraged to drink to cope with trauma instead of being encouraged to seek professional treatment. "The...
[ Must-read] "This seems so obvious that it shouldn’t have to be said, but with standardized testing being the focus of school reform, here goes anyway: Children can’t become high achievers in school if they arrive in class hungry, sick, exhausted, traumatized. That’s why community schools should be a bigger part of the school reform movement than they are. " Community schools focus not only on academics but also, through partnerships with outside organizations,...
"Children of parents with anxiety disorders are more likely todevelop anxiety disorders than children of normal controls . This familial aggregation is due to genetic and environmental influences, whereas it can be assumed that shared environmental...
"A group of advocates, educators, small business owners and community members are teaming up with Families for Justice as Healing founder Andrea James to stop the state of Massachusetts from building new prisons. "Families for Justice as Healing is...
"Many of the youths who come to live at Boys Town are taking a cabinet full of prescription drugs.... "The amount, the variety and the frequency may not be, say Boys Town doctors and youth care workers.... “As you work with really difficult...
"Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that enhanced state resources to help Connecticut families access mental health treatment include a claims “ tool kit ” to streamline insurance reimbursement and additional funds for prevention...
"Paulina* is a survivor of sexual assault. She’s also an employee at the University of Oregon. If a fellow student reached out to Paulina for support relating to a sex crime, Paulina would be expected to report it to her supervisors. "It’s...
"The hardest part of the whole process was leaving the hospital without her," she said. "...But I received counseling and I had a great support system to help me. I want people to know that you do get help and support. It's not something that you have...
"Davion Only's prayers have been answered. "The 15-year-old orphan went to a Sunday church service in St. Petersburg, Fla., last month to request that a family adopt him . Only's story has since gotten national attention – and he's received...
"Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people between the ages of 10-19. Although the percentage of U.S. high school students who considered suicide fell by nearly half between 1991 to 2009 (from 29 percent to 14 percent), this...
"Welfare Secretary Bev Mackereth differs with Dumaresq. Mackereth used to oversee the state’s child abuse hotline. She’s uneasy with schools conducting their own investigations. “School officials are not trained to be...
Take a look at the criminal records of the almost 2 million people incarcerated in the U.S. and you’ll probably assume their troubles began when they committed their crimes. As sheriffs who manage facilities housing tens of thousands of inmates...
The power of data to combat denial and distortion is dramatically illustrated in “The Shame of Our Prisons: New Evidence,” a review of studies carried in the October 24 issue of the New York Review of Books by David Kaiser, chair of...
October is Children's Resilience Month in Walla Walla. So proclaimed Mayor Jim Barrow, with unanimous approval of the City Council. Following the lead of Tarpon Springs, FL, Walla Walla worked with its Children's Resilience Initiative (CRI)...