Stanley Smith has spent nearly four decades helping troubled young people earn GEDs and get jobs, but he learned something new this week that he thinks will help him do his job even better. Smith, an employment advocate with the Mayor's Office...
Discussion about life in New Orleans before Katrina often reduces the city to its former public housing projects (with a sometimes-special-mention of the Lower 9th Ward), as if these were the only places black people dwelled. I’m not...
When people seem to be using drugs in very harmful ways, individuals who love or counsel them want to intervene in a powerful manner. They worry about the consequences of the drug use and tend to jump to the rescue. Out of fear, they often...
Over the past few years, reports of police brutality against black Americans—and the resulting Black Lives Matter movement—have galvanized different people in different ways . For American Studies professor Duchess...
The city has asked a local nonprofit to stop feeding homeless people in a public park – the latest move in Costa Mesa’s attempt to reduce its homeless population. Dwelling 222 hosts a potluck every Wednesday at Wilson Park as a way...
We’ve long known that suffering physical or sexual abuse in childhood negatively affects mental health for life. But recently, researchers have uncovered a link between more common forms of childhood adversity and chronic physical conditions...
At a time when many families are looking for back-to-school bargains, others are coming into their pediatricians' offices looking for answers about their children's behavior. "He never stops moving." "His teacher thinks I should have him...
What would happen if the mental health system fully recognized the pervasive and profound impacts of trauma on their clients? How might a deeper appreciation of the multi-faceted sequelae of childhood maltreatment and toxic stressors reshape...
A crowd of 2,000+ educators in Topeka, KS…120 staff, board members, youth and invited guests at Hanna Boys Center in Sonoma, CA…41 people at the Sonoma County (CA) Public Health Department….wherever Paper Tigers is...
A Step-by-Step Guide to Using the ANTHC Healthy Youth Relationships Community Toolkit The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium has collaborated with rural and urban communities to make locally and culturally-relevant resources...
An engaging, multimedia training series on healthcare and domestic violence eligible for 3.25 free CME/CEs is now available online! The title of the training series is “Domestic and Sexual Violence (DV/SV), The Impact on Health, and the...
Since 1999, Ruth Ellis Center in Detroit has served the needs of runaway, homeless and at-risk LGBT youth. In fact, it's the only organization in the country that has a residential program for LGBT youth in the foster care and juvenile justice system....
In May 2009, about four years after Katrina destroyed most of New Orleans, a locally based research nonprofit called the Bureau of Governmental Research issued a key finding: Subsidized housing will assist more of the poorest households...
To show the magnitude of the growing homeless problem in San Diego County, Father Joe’s Villages on Tuesday set up a temporary “sea of shoes” on 16th Street and Newton Avenue. Each pair of tennis shoes, sandals, combat...
"Now, how do you think a dad feels when his son wants to getthis?" That's the question YouTuber and proud dad Mikki Willis asked viewers, while holding a mermaid doll in a video posted online on Aug. 23, 2015, his son, Azai, trying not to...