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There's no need to say anything more than the title this was given on YouTube: Children Full of Life - Important Documentary.. Very. (40 min)
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ACE Professionals with experience in Criminal Justice for a hearing in Washington State
I am looking for people who have experience or an understanding of how ACE's can cause criminal conduct to share with me any significant information that I can use at a legislative hearing to show that sometimes the "victims" are not on the outside....
A photographer’s mission: Documenting the trauma of Chicago’s street violence - Illinois
Carlos Ortiz, 37, wants everyone to see what he sees happening in the streets of Chicago. Ortiz has been documenting the gun violence in his hometown for the last 7 years. His photo documentary is called: “Too Young to Die: Examining a Lost...
Understanding health sociologically - abstract
Abstract Sociology of health and illness has been enlivened with increased understanding of the complex roles, social factors and structures play in individual and societal health and well-being. New insights are simultaneously empirical and...
It Takes a Village to Raise a Child: Disentangling the Effects of Material & Social Deprivation on Early Childhood Development in the KFL&A Public Health Planning Area - full text/thesis - Canada
Abstract Life course literature states that early childhood development (ECD) can influence most aspects of health throughout the life-cycle. Canada ranked last among 25 wealthy nations in meeting ECD objectives. Fewer than 5% of children born have...
Community Pediatrics: Navigating the Intersection of Medicine, Public Health, and Social Determinants of Children’s Health - full text
This policy statement provides a framework for the pediatrician’s role in promoting the health and well-being of all children in the context of their families and communities. It offers pediatricians a definition of community pediatrics ,...
Greater Buffalo Trauma-Informed System of Care Community Plan - New York - UPDATED*
"Greater Buffalo Trauma-Informed System of Care Community Plan - Supported by the Health Foundation for Western and Central New York, the Trauma-Informed Community Initiative of Western New York Coalition has developed a Greater Buffalo...
Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery: Connecting Communities for Mental Health and Well-Being (2 min) - UK - UPDATED*
"This highly collaborative programme aims to examine how creative practice in the arts and humanities can promote the kinds of connectedness and reciprocity that support 'mutual recovery' in terms of mental health and well-being. "Creative practice...
Repairing the cracks of domestic violence
“ Response-based practice stems from the observation that when people are badly treated or when they face adversity, they always respond in some kind of way to address the adversity, to resist the violence, to preserve and reassert their...
Encouraging Healthy Growth and Development in Young Children
"From birth to age five, children require the most preventive and developmental health services. The BUILD Initiative supports state and community leaders in strengthening the five “Cs” of a strong early childhood health system: ...
The signpost of abuse
“We have hundreds of research reports now that convincingly demonstrate links between animal abuse as a predictor and an indicator of other types of violence,” Arkow, a lecturer and author on the subject, said last Wednesday....
Parent and teacher support protects teens from sleep problems and depression
"Results show that disturbed sleep was significantly associated with depressed mood and greater uncertainty about future success. Higher levels of perceived support from parents and from teachers were associated with significantly fewer sleep...
Dalai Lama delivers message of resilience - UPDATED
"A group of nearly 600 mental health professionals engaged with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama during a panel discussion that culminated a special conference about resilience organized by the Tulane School of Social Work on Friday (May 17) during...
Depression linked to telomere enzyme, aging, chronic disease
"In recent years, some studies have linked major, long-term depression with life-threatening chronic disease and with earlier death, even after lifestyle risk factors have been taken into account.... "Telomerase is an enzyme that lengthens protective...
Study says empathy plays a key role in moral judgments
"Is it permissible to harm one to save many? Those who tend to say "yes" when faced with this classic dilemma are likely to be deficient in a specific kind of empathy, according to a report published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE...."...