At long last, there is good news about ways to help youth in foster care and those who have been in custody in the juvenile justice system as they move into adulthood. Intensive, individualized care based on clinically sound practices can...
Senators’ plans for an overhaul of the criminal justice system are piling up in the Judiciary Committee — and the latest spate of officer-involved tragedies could give them a boost. While many bills touching all aspects of criminal...
Take a framework for trauma-informed primary care.... add an in-depth academic overview of ACEs-related research for physicians. Then couple a 50-slide PowerPoint that physicians can use to educate legislators and members of the medical community who...
Following the police killing of Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina,TIME Magazine hit newsstands with a cover dominated by large, block letters: “Black Lives Matter.” #BlackLivesMatter has infiltrated...
Ma ryam was five months pregnant and living in Mogadishu ’s Wadajir district when, one night in 2012, four men entered her home and took turns raping her while one of them stood guard outside. The last one stabbed her with the...
When Elijah Cummings arrived at Howard University as a freshman, all he had was a suitcase and two trash bags full of clothes. "Boy, you've come here to get an education now," Cummings recalls his father telling him. His father was a former...
The Harlem Children's Zone is a nonprofit known for its innovative, multifaceted approach to ending the cycle to poverty. It's garnered kudos from President Obama and philanthropists like William Louis-Dreyfus, who recently announced he...
Every April marks another observation of Child Abuse Prevention Month and with it comes a national awareness campaign to prevent child abuse and to assist the victims. Child abuse is such a horrific crime that the focus on identification and...
Officials from around California announced Thursday that they will join in a national initiative seeking to reduce the number of mentally ill inmates in local jails. "You will not find a sheriff in this state or this nation who is...
“Genius,” goes the oft-quoted Thomas Edison maxim, “is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” But in some modern American workplaces, the doctrine of hard work has been supplanted by a different mantra:...
WASHINGTON — DO government efforts to support low-income families work? Since the War on Poverty in the 1960s, skeptics have argued that even if these programs provide temporary relief, the only long-term impact is increased dependency...
To the Editor: Re “Youth Suicide Reaches Crisis on Reservation” (front page, May 4): We were greatly saddened to read your article, but not surprised. Those of us who live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation know that 20...
Terri Bradford has suffered debilitating headaches all her life. Some days the pain is so bad, she says, "By 11 o'clock in the morning, I'm on the couch in a darkened room with my head packed in ice." Over the years, Bradford, who is 50 years...
When it comes to financial stability, black Americans are often in much more precarious financial situations than white Americans. Their unemployment rate is higher, and so is the level of poverty within the black community. In 2013, the...
Science is supposed to be self-correcting. Unlike auto manufacturing or food production , science is expected to produce trustworthy results without explicit standards of quality that are imposed from the top down. Quality...