What do projects such as communities-in-schools, building affordable housing, preventing adverse childhood experiences, wasting less food, septic systems monitoring, and neighborhood trails or pathways have in common? They are all efforts being led by...
Immediate Past President of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Robert Block, recently said, "Adverse childhood experiences are the single greatest unaddressed public health threat facing our nation today." That got me thinking about how...
Summer 2014 Two weeks ago one of my students ran away from home. She is 16 years old, and is not typically a student who is on my "radar" as someone I have to "watch." So when she ran away, I was surprised. My initial thought was,...
The structure and growth of a child’s brain may be indirectly affected by their parents’ income, a study in the US has claimed. In research involving more than a thousand children and young people, scientists found that those with...
The well-being of Colorado children depends largely on where they live. The creators of an annual Colorado survey on child well-being presented their report at the Capitol Monday, March 23, and focused on the differences in poverty, health and...
I'm the manager of Campus Services at RocketSpace, a technology campus in San Francisco. Along with my team, I help manage the environment and experience for tech entrepreneurs trying to create the next big thing to hit the market. In 1994, I...
Spring break is rarely a picnic for low-income kids. While most children count down the days to vacation, students who live in poor households anxiously count the numbers of meals they’ll miss when they can’t get access to free...
Sometimes I read things on various websites or hear speakers from abroad make statements to the effect of "Change has become apparent." There is, evidently, some indication that society, families, and even mental health professionals are beginning to...
Unlike substance addictions (such as alcohol, cocaine or tobacco), love addiction is known as a process addiction. Process addictions include gambling, compulsive eating, shopping and sex addictions, and they often are more difficult to treat. Love...
Two veterans of the pioneering IDEO design firm will lead the Design Institute for Health, a first-of-its-kind institution dedicated to applying design thinking and creative solutions to the nation’s health care challenges, and to...
A new study published in JAMA Psychiatry, investigates the effectiveness of dialectical behavior therapy for reducing suicide attempts. A multicomponent therapy, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is targeted at individuals who are...
Is a person’s intelligence innate and unchanging, or something that can stagnate or grow depending upon the environment in which it is nurtured? Few scientific controversies have been fought more fiercely. Twenty years ago, the...
The national discourse about health and obesity has never been a particularly cordial conversation. In 2008, it hit a tendentious peak when a ban on new fast-food restaurants in South Los Angeles brought the term "food apartheid" to the table....
Glenn Ford spent 30 years on death row for a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to die in the electric chair, he was sent to a Louisiana penitentiary in 1985. "My sons, when I left, was babies,” he said. “Now they’re grown...
“You’ve got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.” NOTE: This is the second installment in a multi-part series covering Mead...