A family member in prison. A mother who was treated violently. Emotional or physical neglect. Even simply growing up with just one parent. These are examples of "adverse childhood experiences," and they are ravaging Arizona. A national...
IN THE 1960S, if you were a civil rights worker stationed in the Deep South and you needed to get some urgent news out to the rest of the world—word of a beating or an activist’s arrest or some brewing state of...
My thinking about the nature vs. nurture debate was jolted Monday during a meeting at The Family Center on Thompson Lane, where I received a thorough primer on adverse childhood experiences, which have received steadily increasing...
My heart is heavy far too often when local headlines include yet another loss of a young life to heroin overdose. My heart sinks even lower when I read through the unfiltered reader comments at the bottom of those articles. Many people will...
Rule No. 13 of the U.S. Golf Association says you must play the ball as it lies. Fox Cities Housing Coalition Vice President Joe Mauthe used that analogy to describe one of the major findings from a months-long examination of the...
Civil rights lawyers are using a new strategy to change a common court practice that they have long argued unfairly targets the poor. At issue is the way courts across the country sometimes issue arrest warrants for indigent people when they...
Among 96 former Swiss indentured child laborers, 22 individuals showed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and 53 reported having experienced childhood trauma. Men reported a significantly higher prevalence of both sexual...
It's easy to stumble upon some syringes and blame addicts for ruining the town. But no one is born with a needle in his arm or a pipe in her mouth. Research shows that adverse childhood experiences can influence addiction, obesity and mental...
It's been a year since thousands of unaccompanied minors surged into the U.S., overwhelming some school districts. These children, many of whom don't speak English and have lived through violence, trauma and abuse, pose a serious challenge to...
In the first episode of This American Life ’s two-part series on school segregation, journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones argues what many in the education community already know: school integration works as a...
The Army is placing medical officials in charge of substance abuse treatment for soldiers in the wake of a USA TODAY investigation that uncovered poor treatment and a spike in suicides among those suffering addiction. Army...
The day of his high school graduation, like so many of the days before, began with chaos. Ruleville Central had pledged to lock its front doors an hour before the ceremony to prevent a crowd overflow, and Jadareous Davis was still at his...
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Seventeen dollars per person, per day. That’s the United States government’s official definition of poverty, if...
T he unthinkable has occurred in our city: three mothers throwing their infant children out of windows in the space of three months. We can and must do better if we hope to prevent future horrors. Maternal mental illness is...
What's it like to be; The admitting person in the psychiatric war d of a metro hospital turning away violently troubled childre n because there is no space? HCMC in Minneapolis averages about 900 emergency psych visits a month, many...