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Wonderful Infographics shared from the Center on the Developing Child (Harvard).

Sue Fort White, Ed.D. will be the special guest on the "Breaking the Silence with Dr. Gregory Williams" radio program this Sunday evening at 8:00 pm Central Standard Time. Sue Fort White, Ed.D. has been the Executive Director of Our Kids for almost fourteen years. Sue has devoted her career to creating access to information, resources and services for underserved populations such as teens and families in crisis, victims of child sexual abuse and domestic violence, women in prison, refugee...

By Cooper Levey-Baker, Sarasota, December 19, 2019 Mimi Graham has spent her life fighting for kids. She began her career in the late 1970s as a Head Start administrator before moving into the world of academia to study child development and advocate for public policies that improve the health of mothers and children. Today, she’s the director of Florida State University’s Center for Prevention & Early Intervention Policy, a position in which she advises government agencies and...

By Louis Freedberg, EdSource, December 17, 2019 The expected impeachment by the House of Representatives of President Donald Trump, and the trial that will follow in the Senate, is offering teachers of American government a rare “teachable moment” to inform their students about some of the more arcane aspects of democracy in the United States. But beyond the mechanics of the impeachment, a procedure invoked only three times in U.S. history, what exactly is this moment teaching our children?

By Sandy LaMotte, CNN, December 19, 2019 If America does not collectively adopt healthier eating habits, over half of the nation will be obese within 10 years. Even worse, one in four Americans will be "severely obese" with a body mass index over 35, which means they will be more than 100 pounds overweight. That alarming prediction, published Wednesday in NEJM, was the result of a study analyzing self-reported body mass index (BMI) data from over six million American adults. [ Please click...

By Vincent Schilling, Indian Country Today, December 10, 2019 The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Tuesday grants of nearly $200 million to 52 tribes and tribal housing programs across the country for new construction. The grants will be awarded through HUD’s Indian Housing Block Grant program to help construct approximately 1,200 new housing units for low-income families living on Indian reservations or in other Indian areas, and spur economic opportunities in...

By Ellen Sahli, Colleen Gross Ebinger, Maya Brennan, How Housing Matters, December 18, 2019 The devastating effects of evictions reach every part of the US. The bipartisan Eviction Crisis Act, introduced in Congress last week, seeks to limit these effects. The legislation proposes creating or testing new interventions to increase the use of specialized housing courts, expand short-term financial assistance, reduce situations in which eviction filings affect future rental applications, and...

It was Pete Walker, an M.A. in psychoanalysis, who first coined the phrase emotional flashback to describe the gut-wrenching experience of reliving the helplessness and dissociation caused by trauma. In his book, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving, Walker describes many aspects of emotional flashbacks and how the inner critic holds people hostage. I shall be referencing this book throughout this work.

Dr. B. is a Professional Keynote Speaker, Certified iPEC Coach, and an Organizational Trainer. She strives to take very complex concepts and make them manageable and understandable. Let’s talk about qualifications, briefly, she has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, with a specialization in Parent-Child Mental Health (PIMH) and a strong emphasis in Neuropsychology.

It is easy to be pessimistic about ACEs and just accept the fact that they will occur, but this isn’t how we will effectively progress as a society. We need to understand that there are things we can do in our own communities to encourage positive changes and prevent these issues from occurring. What Can Be Done? It should be noted that ACEs and the associated problems with them are preventable. Essentially, by creating an environment that is safe, stable, and nurturing, it will go a long...

Wanted to share this timely message from National Alliance on Mental Health (Nami.org) about how one of our most dominant cultural traditions competely disregards the reality of mental health challenges in kids by assigning simplistic labels of "naughty or nice" to them: ".. why is it that, every Christmas, millions of kids get labeled either “nice” or “naughty,” rather than something less reductive? After a few centuries of dishing out coal, that sobering thought occurs to Santa Claus...

By Hannah Allam, National Public Radio, December 15, 2019 The nonprofit Parents For Peace wants Americans to see extremism as a public health emergency — one that cuts across race, religion and politics. The members are former extremists and their families. LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The nonprofit Parents For Peace wants Americans to see extremism as a public health emergency that cuts across race, religion and politics. Members of the group include former extremists and their families.