In January 2012, two weeks after my discharge from a psychiatric hospital in Connecticut, I made a plan to die. My week in an acute care unit that had me on a suicide watch had not diminished my pain. Back in New York, I stormed out of my...
An experience with a 10-year-old girl named Jasmine stuck in former San Diego City Attorney Casey Gwinn's mind for years. "It was an amazing moment a number of years ago at Camp Hope when we were running it out in east San Diego County," Gwinn...
In her dorm at Dr. Eddie Warrior Correctional Center in Taft, anxiety attacks used to waken Nikki Frazier in the middle of the night. For about an hour she would sit on her bed, shaking, sweaty and nauseous. “It would feel like I was...
During the past few years I have had the privilege of training corrections staff who manage, educate or treat justice-involved youth in facilities/campuses or in the community. As a result, I have noticed that there seem to be some distinct...
This winter, shortly after landing a job as superintendent of the American Indian Model Schools (AIMS), one of California’s highest performing — and most controversial — charter chains, Maya Woods-Cadiz got into what she calls...
If this blog were Us magazine, we'd say: Hunter-gatherers, we're just like them. Because seriously, we are. Here's the story. Humans today live and work in communities with vast numbers of folks we're not related to. And we often...
The UN Committee against Torture is making 13 recommendations to improve human rights in New Zealand . In a report the committee welcomes new measures now in New Zealand law but expresses many concerns, including about the...
This is the first installment in a five-part series on mental health in the newsroom. W hen Hurricane Katrina swirled onto the Louisiana shore and residents of New Orleans clogged highways to flee, John McCusker stayed behind. A photographer...
It can be difficult to verbalize what it's like to experience mental illness, so photographer Katie Crawford decided to show people instead of tell them. In a stunning self-portrait series titled " My Anxious Heart ," Crawford captures how it...
Last summer 6-year-old Scarlett had the worst experience of her life at day camp: Her best friend told the other girls that Scarlett has a penis. "Our daughter was going to an all-girls camp in stealth and hadn't told anyone that she was born a...
Yesterday's New York Times article on huge increase in Black Children killing themselves should make some impact on anyone with a heart. From 1993 to 2012, JAMA Pediatrics published a study that found that suicide...
With an aging Baby Boomer population and increasing numbers of childless and unmarried senior citizens, nearly one-quarter of Americans over age 65 could become “elder orphans,” according to new research. A case study and literature...
On May 5, Princeton University and the Brookings Institution released the spring 2015 issue of The Future of Children . The title of the issue is “ Policies to Promote Child Health .” Also released on May 5 was a...
A service evaluation at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester, England, has shown the benefit of rapid stress management techniques (RSMTs) to help cancer patients who experience 'procedure-related' stress. Cancer ...
Local parenting group helps relationships grow. First in a two-part series. Rooted in Relationships is a statewide program that helps Nebraska communities support the social and emotional development of children from birth through age 8....