After Robin Williams hanged himself last year, Brian Copeland , the gifted Bay Area comedian, theater artist and radio talk jock who laid bare his own depression and suicidal urges in his hit 2012 show “Waiting Period,” had a long...
In “The Pout-Pout Fish” children’s picture book, the author weaves words like “aghast” and “grimace” into a story about a fish who thought he was destined to “spread the dreary-wearies all...
I am linking a 3 minute video created by the Community Development arm of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, that does a good job of providing a brief summary, from a business perspective, on how different sectors can work together to improve...
President Obama has made incarceration reform a White House theme this week. On Monday, he commuted the sentences of 46 mostly nonviolent drug offenders; and on Tuesday, he spoke about reducing the prison population in a speech to...
Video games have come a long way since the 90s, when they were routinely derided as at best a waste of time and at worst a cause of violence. They’re increasingly accepted as art or at least as sophisticated entertainment, and now they...
It's not easy for a child who has had mental health issues to make a successful transition into adulthood. But even children who have symptoms that are mild enough that they wouldn't be diagnosed are more likely to struggle with life as adults,...
When Brandon Blaine’s teenage daughter was in the hospital, the 43-year-old from Mansfield didn’t turn to meditation, yoga or therapy for comfort. Instead, he picked up coloring pencils and his daughter’s coloring book....
Youth Thrive is an initiative to build information resources toward promoting healthy development for adolescents. Below the description, find a link to the Center for the Study of Social Policy webpage for this initiative. I have also attached...
As one of only five female therapists in the northeastern Afghan province of Kapisa, Farkhunda Shahab struggles to soothe the anguished. With her baby daughter perched on her lap, Ms. Shahab listened to the problems of women facing abusive...
Is it possible to cut worldwide levels of interpersonal violence in half within the coming 30 years? This question was at the centre of the first Global Violence Reduction Conference 2014, jointly organised by the Violence Research Centre at...
Alyssa Mayer was four months pregnant the day a police officer showed up at her motel room in Kingston, New York. It was late afternoon in August 2013, the sun dragging toward the Catskills on the west side of town. Earlier that...
Over the past year, video footage from around the country of law enforcement officers killing citizens, many of them black , has brought scrutiny on policing in the streets. Yet, another disturbing police problem has drawn far...
You may recall the story of Rosa's Fresh Pizza from the first time we covered it back in March 2015. The Philadelphia-based eatery is making sure kindness isn't just a slogan in the City of Brotherly Love. They invite customers to...
ast fall, a Howard University sophomore was fielding dozens of phone calls between midnight and 3 a.m. from seniors at Brooklyn College Academy. The young men had a million questions about applying to college, and as a leader of the...
Having psychiatric problems in childhood is challenging enough, but new evidence suggests that these problems can lead to issues as an adult—even if the problems do not persist into adulthood. A new study published...