Some clinics, says Dr. Margaret Harris, even had a "no touch" policy to help protect health care workers from infection. But this meant some children weren't getting held or loved. "Lots of things that would normally be done for children were...
Many pregnant teenagers in the Central Valley are highly motivated to graduate from high school and continue their education, but some schools make the task more difficult – and violate federal law–- by funneling expectant and parenting...
Why was it again that, as President Obama said, “we tortured some folks” after the 9/11 attacks? Oh, right, because we were terrified. Because everyone knows that being afraid gives you moral license to do whatever you need to do to...
I am often deeply disturbed by our remorseless witness. We are all implicated; we share responsibility for our witness of well-defined evil. We don’t protect our most vulnerable children; we value people according to arbitrary standards...
School breakfast continues to make significant gains in communities across the U.S., according to two new analyses by the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) released today, which look at school breakfast participation at the district, state, and...
Last year, as my wife and I prepared for the arrival of our second child, I began to worry. My wife is a mid-level manager at an advertising agency with offices around the world. She heads a team, and she’s ferociously dedicated to her...
Photographer Judy Gelles was volunteering in a reading class at a fourth grade in a Philadelphia school when she realized that her students didn't really relate to the stories in the books she was reading to them. So she asked them to tell...
As the plane descended above the lights of Salt Lake City, I wondered about the Mormons living below: "What was I getting myself into?" I (Tracy) was flying from North Carolina into Utah to co-host "Living Room Conversations" between gay people...
Anne Starr was on her way to the state Capitol to lobby legislators on behalf of the Iowa's mentally ill youth when I called her earlier this month. She had marijuana on her mind. No, not for personal use, or even medical use. Starr is CEO of...
Australian researcher, Marieke Ledingham, conducted research with 55 mental health workers to find out why they were suffering burnout in such large numbers, despite understanding its cause s. Event Protecting the frontline against burnout: Creating...
Mom-to-be Kate Middleton has made a string of appearances for great causes during her second pregnancy, and her latest project is a video for the first ever Children’s Mental Health Week in the U.K. In the recording she calls for parents to...
Los Angeles County officials are allowing the use of powerful psychiatric drugs on far more children in the juvenile delinquency and foster care systems than they had previously acknowledged, according to data obtained by The Times through a Public...
As Dr. Nadine Burke Harris treated child after child, something told her she wasn’t getting the full picture. Most of her young patients at the Bayview Child Health Center were from the surrounding, predominantly African American...
Mindfulness Exercises Improve Kids’ Math Scores . In adults, mindfulness has been shown to have all kinds of amazing effects throughout the body: it can combat stress, protect your heart, shorten migraines and possibly even extend life. But a...
From TED Talks: Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse...