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It has long been assumed that childhood is a time of innocence, free from the shackles of social conformity, where youngsters act naturally on instinct rather than by convention. But new research shows that even by the age of two years old children are already crippled by the scrutiny of others and will change their behaviour if they are being watched to boost their reputation. Scientists at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, found that by 24 months toddlers show signs of inhibition and...

Whatever the Poop Patrol will be wearing as they power-wash feces off San Francisco's sidewalks, let's hope they get a great embroidered patch. Armed with steam cleaners, a crew from the city's department of public works will target downtown alleys and sidewalks for human and animal droppings starting next month, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. They'll start their vigil in the afternoon, aiming to clear deposits that appear after overnight crews have done their cleaning, but before any...

Fergus Falls Public Schools teachers attended Adverse Child Experiences or ACEs training on Tuesday to learn about teaching children with traumatic pasts. The course was from Lakes County Service Cooperative and the conversation was led by The Rev. Tom Gonzales. Gonzales started by talking about his own history and childhood and the ACEs in his past including his parents’ divorce and why that led to some issues that teachers might see in their students. [For more on this story by Frances...

Due to a last minute cancellations, a few seats are opened for the SAMHSA Forum in Johnson City. Registration information is below. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/moving-from-understanding-to-implementing-trauma-responsive-services-registration-47316691498

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School is about to begin and for the first time in my 18 years as a school nurse, I am fearful to welcome another September. I work in an urban district where community gun violence is sadly commonplace, but that is not my fear. I travel throughout the city from school to school where drug dealing is an open-air exercise, but that is not my fear. Emergencies are often solitary experiences because school nurses work independently, but that is not my fear. Families facing deportation from...

In their work covering crime in New Orleans, Richard Webster and Jonathan Bullington often saw neighborhood kids who’d been witnesses, lost family members and were present at crime scenes. And they wondered — what does that do to kids? The two NOLA.com | Times-Picayune reporters spent one school year finding out. Their series, “ The Children of Central City ,” tells the story of a group of kids, their families and schools, but also the science behind trauma and what it means for all of them.

I WAS RAISED IN THE SOUTH BRONX in the late 1980s and ’90s. I came of age and into my consciousness while a generation of men of color were herded into the criminal justice system under the rigid, unyielding habitual offender laws — three-strikes laws — for nonviolent drug-related offenses. As shown in decades of analyses , the legacy of that policy that swept neighborhoods and entire cities clean of young men has been families broken apart, household incomes systematically gutted and swaths...

Americans have long worried that their countrymen are lonely, but recently, mild concern has given way to outright panic. In 2017, the former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warned that loneliness in the U.S. had reached epidemic proportions. And it’s not just Americans who are anxious—in January, British Prime Minister Theresa May appointed the country’s first “minister for loneliness.” While apprehensiveness about elders is particularly intense—the aging grandparent who lives alone and hasn’t...

Many people assume that implementing evidence-based practices requires buying a costly treatment program. Though that’s one option, there are lots of ways a community can do this. An evidence-based program and practice (EBPP) is any process, decision or treatment based on research findings. The process we have developed in Colorado relies on aggregated data and systematic analysis to better understand the target populations’ needs and what works in intervening, treating or improving their...

On the fifth floor of slack’s new building , overlooking the fancy Salesforce Park, a standing-room-only crowd of employees had gathered. Almost universally young and San Francisco casual, but not universally white and male , they were there to see John Legend, and to celebrate Next Chapter, a new partnership the chat start-up has entered into with The Last Mile, a technology-training program for incarcerated people, and $800,000 from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation . Next Chapter will train...