"United Way of the Quad-Cities Area has granted $75,000 to advance health in the Quad-Cities. The funding will help to continue the Quad-City-wide work in trauma-informed care. With this type of care, trained staff respond to the impact of...
" All the adults have a responsibility to all of the children," said Williams. "Not just your children, or your neighbors children, or someone you may be babysitting for, we as adults have a responsibility to the children in our community...
I was expelled from school in 9th grade, and I'm currently 19 years old with no plans on 'finishing' my education (as if education ever ends). I say this with pride, because too often, people dismiss academic-underachievers as "lazy," and any attempt...
Dr. Robert Anda, Co Principal Investigator of ACEs Study, Kent Jackson, St. Lukes Hospital and Laura Porter from Washington State Family Policy Council. Two hours of video from the conference thanks to the United Way. Get your popcorn ready!!!
http://youtu.be/iCvmsMzlF7o
It is our job as educators to fortify the intellectual, social, and emotional capacity of our students. As concerns to the intellectual, we achieve success in this area by creating classroom environments that consistently provide clear and challenging...
This is the story of one of four buses that makes its way through the back roads to delivery lunch to kids who just don't have enough to eat. This is a very well reported and well written story -- Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow rode the bus, and...
"At the end of the visit, the child is given the chance to pick out a stuffed animal and a blanket – and often, executive director Barbara Peschiera said, children light up, despite the difficulty of the visit, which takes several hours....
"Child sexual abuse is a public-health crisis in the United States and should be the subject of the same research-based analysis and policymaking we see with anything else threatening this nation’s health. By treating each incident we see in the...
"To help, CARE House is offering support groups that begin later this month. "One group will be for girls ages 6 to 11 who have experienced sexual abuse and need help coping with the trauma. Another will be for girls ages 12 to 15. At the same times,...
Abstract Background Many babies in the UK are born to drug-dependent parents, and dependence on psychoactive drugs during the postnatal period is associated with high rates of child maltreatment, with around a quarter of these...
"If a man or woman harms a spouse or child physically, emotionally or sexually, it’s likely that spouse or child isn’t the offender’s only victim of abuse. If people can harm fellow human beings, research shows , it’s easy for...
"We've known a mom's feelings of depression can impact her children, but what about that child's actual physical health and growth? "A study recently published in the journal Academic Pediatrics links a mother's feelings of depression to childhood...
"In an essay titled, “ Children of Incarcerated Parents: Helping the Silent Victims ,” Henrie Treadwell cites the adverse impact of the incarceration of fathers on their children, particularly sons. "Dr. Treadwell’s research...