Resiliency, vicarious trauma, self-care and reflection have become standard rhetoric for me both as a student and future Social Work Professional and yet remain incredibly important. As Social Workers, we are instilled with a commitment to...
November 6, 2014, San Francisco, California The speakers included Kimberly Beckstead , San Diego Trauma Informed Guide Team ; Dave Lockridge , ACE Overcomers ; Jim Sporleder , Sporleder Consulting; Jane Stevens , ACEs Too High and ACEs...
The number of babies born too early dropped to 11.4 percent of all births in 2013, the best number in 17 years. But that's still more than 450,000 children being born too early. Those babies face in increased risk of death, and those who...
When Judge Lawrence Ornell took a seat in his Santa Rosa courtroom the morning after Election Day, a man with an “I voted” sticker on his lapel walked up to the bench, beaming. Ornell noticed the man’s sunny disposition then...
Think of your body like an automobile. Both require regular maintenance, periodic repairs, and safe handling. Both inevitably wear down — and much earlier when they’re subject to excessive strain and lax care. And like a rusted...
On June 17, Ruben Rodriguez got two brightly colored envelopes in the mail. His grandmother had sent a card with a silly cartoon. His mother wrote a more sentimental message on her card and tucked a folded piece of loose-leaf inside it. That...
All the world’s a stage — even behind bars, in Massachusetts. Inside juvenile correctional facilities in the Bay state, young offenders study the finer points of Shakespeare, rehearse for weeks, then perform the bard’s works...
Half of all premature deaths from colorectal cancer (described as deaths in people ages 25 to 64) in the United States are linked to ethnic, socioeconomic, and geographic inequalities, and therefore could be prevented according to a new study...
Regulation of a single, specific gene in a brain region related to drug addiction and depression is sufficient to reduce drug and stress responses, according to a study conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published...
For many years, some students from Hayward’s Mt. Eden High School would cut class to go to a nearby convenience store. They would climb a chain-link fence surrounding the school and cross the street to the Rotten Robbie gas...
This weekend I attended an international trauma studies conference in Miami, Florida, where some of the leading researchers and clinicians in the field of trauma gathered to share their innovative projects and findings. I was excited to...
"Pregnancy and childbirth were very male experiences for me," said a 29-year-old respondent in a study reported Friday in Obstetrics and Gynecology. "When I birthed my children, I was born into fatherhood." If this statement at first seems...
Being overweight hurts your earnings, and being an overweight woman is particularly tough on income. Back in 2004, a landmark study found that a 65-pound increase in a woman's weight is associated with a 9-percent drop in earnings. The authors...
Florida embraced the school accountability movement early and enthusiastically, but that was hard to remember at a parent meeting in a high school auditorium here not long ago. Parents railed at a system that they said was overrun by new tests...
First came Hurricane Sandy, which left her homeless. Then came the live-in boyfriend, who battered her. Now the 44-year-old mother of three young children is homeless again, forced into a shelter by the abuse and trapped there by poverty and...