While the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has made great strides in reducing the number of homeless male veterans in cities across America, the numbers of homeless female veterans are actually on the rise. As I've written before here...
Samantha McVey brought her 4-month-old daughter, Ruby, to The Children’s Clinic for a routine check-up and vaccinations. But within minutes of sitting down with Dr. R.J. Gillespie, McVey was describing her turbulent childhood with a...
n November 14th, 1998, a young Indian man named Neil Grover killed himself . Neil was bright: He was studying to become a doctor and doing well in medical school. His mother said he had always been happy; she couldn’t understand why...
Dear Members, My name is Sterling Norman Anderson. I have recently become a member of Aces. My story is probably not unique but may prove to be helpful. I am an award winning screenwriting in Hollywood. By most standards I have had more than a...
and we have four teaching stories for your team. This month at Partner for Healing we shared healing stories which convey essential principles of trauma-informed care. They are excellent for staff training and will provoke lively discussions...
The dichotomy between mind and body is a false one — and so, it turns out, is the separation between emotion and cognition. In The Feeling Brain: The Biology and Psychology of Emotions, Elizabeth Johnston, a professor of...
After the 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Conn., advocates for children in the state put a renewed focus on special education and children who need help. One challenge? Getting parents and school districts to agree on what to do. At a house in...
When Portland resident Doris Keene raised her four children, she walked everywhere and stayed active. But when she turned 59, she says, everything fell apart. "My leg started bothering me. First it was my knees." She ignored the...
Anti-immigrant sentiment and phrases like “we have to build a wall” have at this point become synonymous with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Indeed, the idea of building a massive wall along the border between the U.S....
From Phi Delta Kappan's Learning on the Edge: http://pdkintl.org/blogs/uncategorized/should-complex-trauma-qualify-as-a-disability/ Should complex trauma qualify as a disability? 09.18.15 By Eric Rossen A lawsuit against Compton...
Parents, children and professionals involved in the Kandiyohi County children’s mental health system say there’s reason to feel optimistic about the system. Professionals and parents who participated in a series of focus group...
Farmington, CT - Childhood trauma exposure is a significant and costly public health concern that affects tens of thousands of Connecticut children - resulting in lifelong impairments on health, behavioral health, and academic outcomes. Investing in...
In early August, as a freakish hailstorm ripped through her Deering neighborhood, Jeanne Paterak pulled out her smartphone and shot some video of the hail – which meteorologists later said were pingpong-ball sized – as...
Child advocates and economists celebrated a milestone in 2013 when the national child poverty rate fell for the first time since the start of the Great Recession. This trend was expected to continue along with the country’s job...
Cyberbullying is a worse problem among teenagers than drug abuse, according to almost half of all young people surveyed in a new study that finds one in five has experienced online abuse. In the global YouGov survey of more than 4,700...