Ten years ago, Los Angeles’ Boyle Hotel was more than down on its luck. The grand old Victorian dame, built in 1889 by an Austrian immigrant and his Mexican wife, was uninhabitable. Over the years neglect had turned the...
U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) gave impassioned remarks (attached) on the Senate floor yesterday on the critical need for schools to address trauma and toxic stress so that all children will have an equal opportunity for academic success. She made...
From the http://www.sunnyhillsservices.org/ website: "Our Space: where it is safe to be yourself, a program of Sunny Hills Services/Bay Area Youth Center, is excited to announce a new publication called beFierce! - a toolkit for providers working...
Eye Motion Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a potent trauma treatment developed by Dr. Francine Shapiro (left). "EMDR is effective and well-supported by research evidence for treating children with symptoms accompanying...
This isn’t your typical prison photography. But it isn’t supposed to be. Instead of photos of prisons with chain-link fences and barbed wire, photographer Mark Strandquist produces images that give those locked up on the inside a...
Recently, I went to a tattoo artist -- and for $60 I let a man with a giant Jesus tattoo on his head ink a semicolon onto my wrist where it will stay until the day I die. By now, enough people have started asking questions that it made sense...
She was only 15 minutes late. That's amazing! After all, she is the first lady of the United States. She has a busy schedule. She was scheduled to speak to the Girl Up Leadership Summit at 11:15 a.m. And by 11:27ish she was in the...
Fathers who read to their infants with autism and take active roles in caregiving activities not only promote healthy development in their children, they boost moms' mental health too, new research suggests. Mothers of children with autism reported...
Will Minnesota Sheriff’s sue Counties over failure (Star Tribune Today) to provide services to mentally unhealthy inmates? Is the Hennepin County Commissioner “failing in her public duty and violating a judge’s...
Christopher Emanuel first met his girlfriend in the fall of 2012, when they were both driving forklifts at a warehouse in Trenton, South Carolina. She was one of a handful of women on the job; she was white and he was black. She ignored him at...
The numbers are huge: An Oregon study found that 93 percent of girls in the state’s juvenile justice system had been sexually or physically abused at some time. South Carolina research found that 81 percent of girls in its system had...
When Lt. Col. Kate Germano took command of the Marine Corps’ all-women boot camp, the failure rate of female recruits at the rifle range was about three times higher than that of their male counterparts, and she said there was no plan to...
More than two decades after the beaten body of a Tacoma runaway was found along the Spokane River, a photo of her hangs prominently on the wall in a King County juvenile courtroom. It’s the same photo Rebecca Hedman’s parents took...
A mother posts a video to YouTube of her two small sons. They dump Legos on the floor, sit on unmade beds and get toothpaste on the bathroom counter. They hold up signs for the camera that say: "We got toothpaste everywhere in the bathroom,"...
“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now,” Jack Kerouac wrote in a beautiful 1957 letter .“Kindness, kindness, kindness,” Susan Sontag resolved in...