Nearly half of the nation’s families with young children struggle to make ends meet. A new KIDS COUNT policy report makes the case for creating opportunity for families by addressing the needs of parents and their children simultaneously....
This brief uses new, nationally representative data from The National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) —funded by the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF),...
A West Oakland charter school is partnering with an affordable housing developer to combine academics and apartments by building a new $9.5 million school that will be finished in time for classes next fall. Bridge Housing is building a new...
A year ago, The Seattle Times and Solutions Journalism Network hatched “Education Lab,” an intensive, ongoing examination of emerging responses to the challenges facing public education in Washington State. In that time, The Times has...
If the extent of human suffering were used to decide which diseases deserve the most medical attention, then depression would be near the top of the list. More than 350 million people are affected by depression, making it one of the most common...
The brain has hit the big time. Between the Obama Administration’s BRAIN Initiative, and the European Union’s Human Brain Project (both ten-year, multi-million-dollar undertakings), we can expect to gain a much more detailed understanding...
The high rate of abused and neglected children within the juvenile justice system was one of the themes percolating throughout a three-day conference on childhood trauma last week in San Francisco. “The relationship between childhood trauma and...
Once a month, my husband and I visit a juvenile lifer at a state prison in Waynesburg, Pa., just 15 miles north of the West Virginia border. Every time we take the exit for Ken's prison, those signs for West Virginia remind me that the difference...
The records of juvenile offenders are not nearly as confidential as they should be, and the records are also not easily sealed or expunged, a report shows. The first such report, issued Thursday in the form of a report card by the ...
American soldiers hospitalized with mental health disorders have a significantly increased risk of suicide in the year after they leave the hospital, a new study finds. The researchers also identified a number of common factors among the 5 percent of...
Nearly one in every five college students abuses prescription stimulants, according to a new survey sponsored by the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids. The survey also found that one in seven non-students of similar age also report abusing...
I've watched this 2012 1 hour, 45 minute video of Dr. Judith Beck interviewing her father, Dr. Aaron T. Beck (Cognitive Behavior Therapy Developer, Beck Institute) and was fascinated with two things he talks about! One is the link between...
We have sad news and good news. The sad news: ACEs Connection community manager Jasmine Pettis has left us for an opportunity that she could not refuse -- a great job with Children's Hospital Oakland (CA) -- and we all wish her the best....
Tucked into a curve of the Columbia River, which marks the watery border between Washington and Oregon, lies the small town of The Dalles. Its claims to fame include being a major Indian trading site for 10,000 years, a camping spot for Lewis and...
s children grow, they learn to crawl, to walk and then to drive. It turns out, the way they get hurt, and in particular their heads, evolves as as their forms of motion change. Small children suffer head injuries from falling, while teenagers...