“GO ... go. Sonja — go!” I hear my name, and sprint out into the middle of the projects. I’m supposed to kick the man in front of me, as hard as I can. It’s a lot more difficult than I thought it would be. The...
In the wake of the Los Angeles riots more than 20 years ago, Congress created an anti-poverty experiment called Moving to Opportunity. It gave vouchers to help poor families move to better neighborhoods and awarded them on a random basis, so...
Philadelphia County is pretty bad for income mobility for children in poor families . It is better than about 26 percent of counties . Location matters – enormously. If you’re poor and live in the Philadelphia area ,...
Dr. Harris’s career as a pediatrician changed once she discovered research conducted by Dr. Vince Felitti and Dr. Bob Anda called the “Adverse Childhood Experience Study.” The research focused on ACEs, which are adverse...
Trenika Raiford never imagined herself as a group facilitator, but motivated to help her Liberty City community she decided to step up. Raiford, a single mom with three children who has lived all her life in the neighborhood, got a dose of...
Money problems got you down? You’re not alone. The Great Recession of 2008 was linked to a significant increase in major depression in U.S. adults, researchers at Loyola University in Chicago have found. This was the first study to look...
When children are exposed to violence at home, the aftershocks can ripple into classrooms. Often on edge and sometimes depressed, those students can struggle to concentrate and control their emotions, causing their grades and relationships to...
When Bruce Hodgins went to the doctor for a checkup in Sioux City, Iowa, he was asked to complete a lengthy survey to gauge his health risks. In return for filling it out, he saved a $10 monthly premium for his Medicaid coverage. In Las Cruces,...
Here is an article about another suicide of a university student, Ian Smith-Christmas/...
The co-founders of Hip-Hop Psych, a new UK-based initiative tackling mental health issues through the music of hip-hop, have penned an article for Lancet Psychiatry assessing how mental health issues are addressed in the lyrics of rap...
For drug or alcohol abusers who get cleaned up, success builds on success. Those who successfully complete treatment programs do better the longer they manage to stay clean, a study cited by the Georgia Council on Substance Abuse found. About 4...
PINE RIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION, S.D. — A few days before Christmas, Santana Janis, a 12-year-old Lakota Indian, decided that she did not want to live anymore. A bright, outgoing girl with a shy smile and a passion for horseback riding,...
In two new studies, Harvard economist Raj Chetty and his colleagues found that where poor kids grow up has a huge effect on how much money they earn as adults. In one study, families living in public housing were randomly selected to be...
I can't help but have increasing concerns about what can be done "on the ground" with ACE study findings. There seems to be a growing cry in the trenches, "What does all of this mean? What can I or anyone else DO with this information?...
By David Shern and Andrea Blanch Nothing garners more public and policy attention to mental illness than mass shootings involving a shooter diagnosed with a mental illness. Unfortunately, the end result of this attention is almost always...