In the last three years, Marcquees Banks has been taken out of class twice and sent to another school for getting into fights. The third time he got into a scuffle, something different happened: A counselor at Augustus Hawkins High School in...
In theory, most of us subscribe to a set of values based on the idea that a human being is an end not a means. You can’t justifiably use a human being as an object. It is wrong to enslave a person, even if that slavery might produce a large...
Last December, President Obama established the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. Task Force members include police officials, law professors, attorneys, community organizers and nonprofit leaders. Sadly, missing from the Task...
Sierra Health Foundation announced the results of the first year evaluation of the Positive Youth Justice Initiative (PYJI). In 2013, Alameda County Probation Department, San Diego County Probation Department, San Joaquin County...
Young children with disruptive behaviors have fewer opportunities to learn in school than their focused peers, and are at risk for lower levels of academic achievement. These children often have high maintenance temperaments, characterized by...
I’ve heard people say that runners like to run away from their problems. As a lifelong runner, I’ve always run toward something — a goal, a relief from stress, my mom’s arms. My penchant for running started at a young...
I’m posting a correspondence between myself and a long-time reader and friend who has dealt with severe protracted withdrawal issues much like my own. We who choose to come off psych meds and then especially those of us who end up with serious...
I'm hunched over my iPhone, texting with a stranger I know only as "NJ." I'm soliciting career advice. I love my work, I peck out, but sometimes wonder if I should be more strategic, have a grand plan. This conversation is being...
Children with favorable psychosocial experiences may have better cardiovascular health in adulthood, according to new research in the American Heart Association journal Circulation. Positive psychosocial factors include growing up in a family that...
You could describe local writer Merry Ellefson’s new play “A Lifetime to Master” as being a work about homelessness, but it would be more accurate to say it’s a play about people. Based on more than 60 interviews Ellefson...
Years ago, while producing the hit TV series “The Shield,” Glen Mazzara noticed that two young female writers were quiet during story meetings. He pulled them aside and encouraged them to speak up more. Watch what happens when...
Child Family Community Australia , an organization who's mission is to be a primary source of quality, evidence-based information, resources and interactive support for professionals in the child, family and community welfare sectors, has...
Psychotherapist Sebern Fisher gave a great webscast Oct. 14 in the NICABM series, about neurofeedback (biofeedback to the brain), which gives us access to our brain function frequencies. The brain gets organized from the womb in oscillatory patterns,...
Started by a father and step-mother, Rachel’s Challenge is a collection of educational programs intended to encourage school staff and students to create more compassionate and caring school environments. In the Fall, at one elementary...
The following information comes from the National Council: Ninety percent of people served by public behavioral health systems have experienced trauma. When unaddressed, people who experienced trauma can face poor health outcomes, such as...