This week’s decision by the Los Angeles City Council to raise the local minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour by 2020 is part of an intriguing development in urban politics and social policy. Reacting to grassroots campaigns carried out...
Children’s Village in New York and Stanford Youth Solutions in Sacramento, California, opened their doors more than a century ago as traditional orphanages. Today, they are leading examples of a shift among private...
Adverse experiences in childhood constitute “the single greatest public health threat facing the nation today,” said renowned pediatrician Dr. Nadine Burke Harris. The founder and CEO of San Francisco’s Center for...
The elementary school kids in this video by Wavecrest Films are unexpectedly articulate about their emotions. Seriously, they are so smart! Listen to what they have to say. They understand what's happening in their brains when they get angry. They...
Trapped in a culture of blame, shame and punishment, too many people are thrown in jail, suspended from school and re-traumatized in caregiving situations when what they need is understanding what’s happened to them, nurturing safety and a...
Katrina Haselgren sits outside with her 3-year-old son Giovanni having "mommy and me" time. Her older sons are at school. “What’s that noise?” she asks him gently. “A grasshopper,” Giovanni says softly. The...
When you hear stories about poverty, they’re usually not focused on how a person's brain deals with stress. But there's growing scientific evidence that experiences like homelessness or living in a dangerous neighborhood actually changes...
In our reporting on children in poverty in Colorado, we keep coming across research about how growing up poor can actually change a child's brain. As it turns out one of the leading researchers in the country on this is based at The University...
Filmmaker Julie Bayer Salzman describes why she and her husband made this video: The inspiration for “Just Breathe” first came about a little over a year ago when I overheard my then 5-year-old son talking with his friend about how...
The California Medical Association has become the first state medical association in the nation to drop opposition to what has long been known as “physician-assisted suicide,” it said, acknowledging a shift in doctor and patient...
Healthwatch England put in a Freedom of Information request and found psychiatric patients now spend six fewer days in hospital than in 2012-13. The data, from 32 mental health trusts, shows average number of "bed days" per patient per year has...
Adults who were bullied in childhood may be at an increased risk for obesity, heart disease and diabetes, a new British study suggests. "Our research has already shown a link between childhood bullying and risk of mental health disorders in...
I've been thinking a lot about how I survived not just what I survived. And this came to me. I can’t say no to my daughter when she asks me to buy her a new book, no matter how broke I am. “Words fuel, feed,...
Hi everyone on ACEs. I wanted to share what I learned about advertising the ACE study. Well first, we got the idea when Dr. Felitti was here in February. He suggested that we post the questions in the local newspaper....
I’ve used Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) aka tapping for years, as I wrote in Part 1 , which described “what is tapping." Now for how to tap. “The basic technique requires you to focus on the negative emotion at hand:...